I'm looking at a career in whooting. I didn't even know this was a job until I started noticing the "Whooting" going on when Bill supposedly said something funny or meaningful. Who is Bill's Whooter and what is he getting paid? WHOOT!
Last year it was a woman with an annoying howl.If Americans need a prompt to tell them what's funny, I can see how an orange pussy grabber could get 70 million or so people to follow and vote for him. From afar it's like watching Ali step into the ring..but the parkinsons version.
It's always been my opinion that Whoo Guy is just a rando in the audience who wants to be able to say "That's Me!" when they show people the episode they were there for.
New rule, you don’t get to take the top comment on this video, rewrite it in a slightly different way, and then post the same comment in order to get interaction in the comment section 😂 how about that rule?
That episode of the Twilight Zone to which you refer is one of the most beautiful, and still makes me cry. The poor, frightened old woman who won't open her door to her tiny, dark basement home does so when someone she believes is a Policeman has been shot. She opens her door to Robert Redford, in one of his first roles, and makes him comfortable. They talk, and she tells him she's afraid of opening the door to Death. Aren't we all? By the end of the story, she realizes that the handsome young man is Death, but he comes, not as a monster, but as a friend, to lead her out of her dark and up into the light. We all have to get over being afraid of what might happen, and walk out into the light, where there is beauty and people. My experience is that most folks are good, nice, and friendly. Don't shut yourself in and them out. You are missing something wonderful.
@@anderseckstrand7033 I knew Zelda Rubenstein (Tangina Barrons, the psychic) personally. She was a real sweetheart. We worked together in a Blood Bank near downtown L.A. back in the late 1970's. 💙😘
This summer I read The Secret Garden, a kids book from 1911. You know what the message was? Staying inside, being afraid of getting sick, and having a victim mentality is exactly what makes you sick. Too bad it's from before 2009, so now it's banned in Canada.
And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
Not at all. Bill has strong opinions, but he has been factually incorrect about a lot of things. It’s not his fault, our mainstream media gets things wrong because they want to promote a certain narrative instead of actually having journalistic integrity. 🤷♂️
And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
is he a regular? I haven't heard him before but I'm not a regular watcher. Dude was definitely annoying though - cheering as if Maher was sinking 3's in the championship basketball game.
people are the worst and ruin everything. no need to have a pointless chit chat with anyone. fuck people, fuck society, live your own life. people aren't necessary to be happy.
Loneliness has been a problem in modern society for decades. Taxi Driver came out almost 50 years ago and it's main theme is the loneliness the character experiences. The harsh truth is we live in an incredibly lonely and disconnected society, where the majority of people just go to work, or even work remotely, then come home to watch tv or go on the internet. After you leave school there is simply no real social structure in place, outside of work, to make friends and meet new people. I've lived in multiple places over the years and have literally never spoken to any of my neighbors. There's no sense of community in our society, you're just surrounded by strangers all doing your own thing.
I am in total agreement with you, but it wasn’t always like that. I think really the invention of the Internet and especially the smart phone has been the main culprit. I grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s before the Internet and people were just a lot more friendly and open and approachable. Now everybody’s paranoid and defensive and suspicious of everything because all we hear is negative news constantly it’s really a plague, no one wants to really deal with anybody anymore. The worlds become too difficult and stressful too much noise and confusion so we all retreat into our own little cocoons. The art of avoidance has taken over.
I think there is now, an underlying fear of the consequences of getting friendly with people!...Will this person somehow take advantage of me?...will he/she want to fool around with my spouse?...Will their friends break into my home?.......I mean, we see bad stuff on the local news, and then watch"Forensic Files"....We feel vulnerable to being exploited, etc. I am old now, and I certainly am guilty of feeling that way!
@@curbozerboomer1773 what you are describing is simply paranoia and fear being rampant in your life, and it basically limit your ability to experience people, you’re limiting yourself big time via unnecessary worry
With the bitch-n-moaning in the comments section about the audience, you know damn well those making such comments failed to find sunlight, much less a more constructive hobby during the writer's strike.
@@scarpfishWith your drinking-n-consooming, you would think better than to disregard criticism, especially when many of those striking writers you mentioned are hacks.
It is funny because I am the guy who never really wanted to be around people in the first place to the point of being anti-social, but always observed my social graces in public. Now, I am the guy who "stands too close" in the checkout line, makes people uncomfortable in a theater because I only left one empty seat between me and people I don't know instead of two empty seats, and who doesn't "mind his own business" (actually got said to me by a lady) when I returned a child's toy that had bounced away from them in a restaurant. I'm doing exactly the same things I've done for 35 years.
What Bill says about dying any way but unnoticed is spot on. Someone I knew cut themselves off so much that it was almost a month before they were found and only because the landlord called in a wellness check to the police. No one should go out like that.
I'll probably go out like that unless it happens in public around other people. I'll be in the house rotting until the landlord doesn't get their rent and sends someone to check on me.
That'll be me, or out working in an environmental preserve. A month might go by...maybe more. It's not loneliness. It's just me happier outside and around other species.
yeah turn down the volume on that fucking audience lol jesus christ that's annoying i either can't hear what Bill is saying or i get my eardrums blown out every 15 seconds
Plus the constant applause after every statement made is annoying. Every episode, I say multiple times to let them finish their thought. There would be a lot more content given if the panel weren't interrupted every minute. I liked it better during the pandemic where there wasn't the obnoxious audience.
@@jeffs6090 All late night shows benefited a lot from having no audience. The Daily Show experiemented with no audience even after, but I think they're back now.
I can't listen to it, it is so annoying. Bill' audiences are the absolute worst. They whoop at everything and contradict their own whoops. I often just turn off the sound and watch with subtitles.
as cheesy as this sounds, you’re not alone. really… he just confirmed it. it is super difficult. i also suffer from this. recently divorced & a single mother. i don’t even know how to be now days. all i can say is, it gets harder as you get older. you’re young & able to have a social life. so take a chance, go outside & say hi. if you don’t connect with someone maybe you’ll connect with nature🖤
I lost interest 55 years ago. Not a problem. I have not killed anyone or developed addictions. My blood pressure is still OK. I look at connections as incidental rather than a significant outcome. Just like happiness; if you strive for it, it is elusive.
@@seanwickham8905 good point. Somehow everyone looks as if they cannot be trusted with anything. It's probably because they also think the same about you.
Bill, I live in a lower income working class neighborhood. Kids are all over the place playing outside. Bicycles and tree climbing, mild vandalism... all are much more common than iPads and ear buds. You look at the world through suburbanite glasses.. Sorry about the world you choose to live in, we're doing just fine, thanks. It's good, though, because it makes me optimistic about that old prediction: "The meek shall inherit the earth" So, y'all just carry on, and good luck to you!
Going out isn't the solution if everyone else around is unwilling to socialize. I went to a standup comedy show alone, and not much bonding can occur while talking to couples necking or chatting quietly among each other. I passed out the event info to everyone I knew last week, that might go. Only had one person available & interested. He took ages to respond to messages, got distracted, and wouldn't fully read my messages when I gave more info for things like parking prices, and ticket options. Night of the event, he acted like he was gonna go, then cuddled with his GF at her place, and passed out til it was too late. I was holding a seat for nothing and gave it up eventually when I got wifi and he explained how he fucked up. I wasn't enjoying all the tobacco and weed smokers in line. Going out involves dealing with assholes, so society doesn't make it appealing for lonely ppl that are willing to reach out. And random chit chat doesn't matter if it doesn't lead to exchanged numbers and eventual fostered bonds. It's like pulling teeth to make that happen.
I'm a 24-year-old heterosexual man and I've been following Bill Maher since I was 14 years old. I was always a very awkward and introverted young man and quite frankly I was and still am a late bloomer. When COVID-19 occurred I was a 20-year-old who was too shy to talk to girls, but I was making real progress and was starting to get out of my shell. Then COVID-19 happened and I regressed back into my childhood shyness and dug myself a mental hole over the year and a half of COVID that I still haven't been able to climb out of. I got addicted to the internet and didn't know how to talk to people. I want to go out and meet people but I have no idea where to go and when I do go places there are rarely any available women (at least so far that's the case). I tried dating sites but those don't work for me and I'm stuck in a crappy job at a pizza place. I'm working on myself and while I appreciate Bill talking about isolation and struggling young men, I think he should have a young man like me on his show to talk about the problem directly with him. I may be Generation z, but in many ways, I feel that I am an old soul and a boomer at heart.
You're right, it's way harder to meet people, but it's possible. The more you go out the more you increase your odds. When I had anxiety over talking to women I started very small. First it was learning to talk to anybody. Every time you go to the grocery store, talk to the cashier, never go to self checkout. Use this as a test to see if you can have a natural and fun conversation. If you fail, no one cares. I don't drink coffee, but I would go to coffee shops just to practice talking to people in line, asking them what they like. Be respectful, take genuine interest in what the other person is saying, and don't try to GET anything from the other person. Do it just to enjoy the conversation. When we are happy and healthy we attract people who have a similar vibe.
I kind of felt that way too. Latter half of 2010s I was getting way better with socialization, making friends, finally felt like I was getting out of my shell. COVID brought me back to square 1.
Also, unrelated, but consider applying to more jobs. And do it IN PERSON. You would be surprised how many jobs just require someone who has basic intelligence, is responsible, and will put in the hours to do a good job. Just walk into places and ask if you can talk to a manager and ask if they are hiring. Literally no one does this, and if you can convince someone you have integrity and work ethic, it greatly improves your chances. You may get 100 no's, but 1 yes will sets you up with a job with better pay where you can advance.
Even though I was and am anything but introvert, I was always and still am very shy with women. I had my first serious girlfriend when I was one year older then your current age. Now I'm 43, married and with a wonderful boy almost turning 2.
I live in rural Australia - now. I used to be a "city slicker", but I moved to the country about 15 years ago and never looked back. I know the names of all the local shopkeepers, tradespeople and delivery folks, and they know mine. I chat with my neighbours over the fence. I swap hellos with people I pass in the street, even if we don't know each other. And yet I am - or was - by nature, an _introvert._ Whether this is the same in rural USA, I don't know. But it seems to me that isolation is more of a problem in the cities than it is in the country. It's paradoxical that the more people are concentrated together in large numbers, the more they want to distance themselves from one another.
You still sound isolated. I also chat with the shopkeeper sometimes, or with the neighbour in the elevator out of desperation, but that doesn't ease my lonliness even a bit.
"Overreaction" is a word used to describe covid by people who didnt work in healthcare at the time. It was awful. The lockdowns were terrible, but had there been more transmission, the hospitals like the one i worked at would have been completely overrun and deaths would have skyrocketed.
That was so clear (and I don't even work in health care). I lose respect for Bill's thinking skills when he whines immaturely since he doesn't acknowledge the alternative scenario. It''s very self-righteous. In the acute phase lots were dying weekly and what had to be done had to be done. Over time as the pandemic progressed not everything was done perfectly but nothing ever is
One of the best pieces of advice my friend gave me after she had relocated to a new town and heard I was going to be moving elsewhere too, is to start by fostering interactions with 'familiar strangers'. These are people you see regularly enough to say hello to or make small talk, but are unlikely to become actual friends with. People you see at certain times of the day - eg waiting for a bus, walking their dog. After a while, you may give each other a nod of recognition, a smile or comment on the weather. She also picked a local newsagent and every Monday and Friday bought the same specific items so the shop assistant started to notice and would give a smile, maybe a brief chat too. It sounds dumb, but she had such social anxiety and knew I was the same. Going to the same coffee shop or park at a regular day/time can help in a small way with loneliness, or the dreaded - jeeze, I haven't spoken to a single person in three days realisation. Weather, traffic, celebrity gossip, even overhearing a conversation ahead of you in a checkout line and commenting when it is your turn to be served, can stave off the horrific weight of disconnection that surges within us from time to time. Ask a checkout person if they have tried an item of food you are buying or comment on how busy or quiet the shop is - and as much as possible- go through a checkout with a real person. None of these actions are ones I find easy, but I try and force myself to engage in some kind of small talk whenever I go into town. Living alone, yep, it's easy and far more preferable to keep closed in. More so when going out is expensive/unaffordable. Hope this helps someone.
I think this is such a great comment!! I agree 💯%. I was lucky enough to have a Dad who could strike up a conversation with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Super embarrassing when I was a kid, but now as an adult I'm the same way and I see how important it is to connect with other people in exactly the way you described. Sometimes it's just a comment about how long the line is at the grocery store, or how much you both hate self-checkout lol! Other times it's resulted in some really funny stories. I was on vacation once halfway across the world and I saw two women taking pictures at a famous landmark. I asked, would you like me to take a picture of you two together? Turns out one of the women grew up directly across the street in the 60's from where I live today...bizarre. I found after COVID and lockdown is that I make an effort to be nicer in every interaction...it really helps me when I'm having a bad day Again, awesome comment...Thanks! 😄
@@js-93308 Bless you. Your dad sounds like mine 😁How freaky about meeting someone from your home town so far away. One of my favourite recollections is when I was temp working at a museum. I'd only done a few shifts and the fire alarm went off. A crowd of us huddled outside and a man next to me smiled and said he was glad as he'd been researching in their library for too long and needed a break. I asked what he was researching and it was medical sociology which I'd no clue about. It sounded fascinating so I looked into it and ended up doing a (non-medical) Sociology degree which I greatly enjoyed, instead of taking Drama which I'd been hesitating about. You really never know where a five min chat with a stranger may lead 😁
@@yzolakitchi Wow! That's a great story and so true! Your life trajectory can change in an instant because of one random event & one random encounter. Sociology sounds fascinating... I've always been really interested in human behavior. I Love RUclips, there is so much rich content. The Huberman lab is my favorite. I've have one more funny story... I met one of my dearest friends in a thunderstorm at the beach... I was determined to make it back to my car on my rollerblades and he screamed something to the effect...Are you crazy, get over here, you're going to get hit by lightning! I listened and ducked for cover too, that was almost 30 years ago... Life can be very interesting when you keep your eyes open 😀
@@sofiasininen8268 yes, absolutely. This is a jumping off point for people with social anxiety, introverts or limited support networks. Meaningful relationships are always the goal but not achievable for many. It has long been known that going days without talking to another person is detrimental to mental wellbeing and can exacerbate existing mental health conditions. These tips are to help with that and can absolutely provide some comfort and mental stability. But as you say, they are no substitute for deeper, loving connection and aren't meant to be. Some days though, baby steps are all we can manage. 😌 Hope that clarified my previous comment. 🥰
This. I'm done with so-called "friends" who expect me to always initiate contact to hang out. And then when you actually hang out, they use you as a therapist to complain about their wife and kids. Better alone than with these type of people.
On my daily morning dog walk, I pass a bus stop for kids going to junior high. There's about a dozen kids there and even though they are surrounded by other kids the same age, having many of the same interests; listening to the same music, watching the same Internet, so much in common, not one of them ever looks up from their phone. I have never seen a one of them talking with the kids standing right next to them.
I'm already there and because I am a person who have to be always doing something I thought it would be hard however, I have so much peace and tranquility in my life I do not want to go back to work. No deadlines to meet, no boss nagging me why I am not making my time commitments. The most stressful part of my day is making a decision on what I'm going to cook for dinner. Even though I thought I would go back to work.
I have absolutely QUIT going out for ANY REASON. Everything Is Delivered and I don't even see or speak to them. EVERY TIME and I mean EVERY. TIME. I go to a store for something? I GET TREATED LIKE I AM AN INTERUPTION IN THEIR DAY! Today while I was digging for my debit card, I was told I could not sit in the SUBWAY SANDWICH SHOP AT WALMART On 1923 East Kearny Street In Springfield MO UNLESS I WAS THERE TO BUY SOMETHING! I am a recent heart patient and had sat down to catch my breath and to look for my debt card, The Turkey Sandwich was SEVENTEEN DOLLARS!!! I walked Away and Left It There. PEOPLE ARE BEING SO DAMN MEAN! I HATE HAVING TO LEAVE MY HOME!
Consider advising folks about your recent health malady/condition, please. ❤️🩹 You will garner sympathy, most certainly, and Don't give up, hope❣️ There are many good helpers out there. 🥰 Your luck will turn back to you. 🍀 Be patient. 🙂 Be Fonzie Cool. 👍👍. Keep Calm, always. 💖
People are definitely a lot more aggressive as well . Went to a bar a few months back in Long Island and haven’t gone back since , the vibe is just off ..
Because they love tea or reading books? 🙄 I'm an American and I happen to like reading books and drinking tea. I also like cappuccino in the morning with my toasted bagel.🤷♂️
The haha guy is on every show. He’s their hired laugh box. He queues the audience. It is something I really hope they realize is ridiculous and that everyone can tell.
I don’t know who that one guy that always laughs the loudest on all of these videos but it is proper cringe. The jokes are funny and - most of the time - hit the right points. I don’t need canned applause.
There is nothing wrong with people who are reserved and likes to be alone. They are called introverts. Doesn't mean that they are lonely. I'm just saying that there is big difference between lonely and alone.
A huge amount of good common sense in this one. Personally, I think the terms "mental illness" and "depression" are overworked and applied far too freely. What we used to call "bored" or "feeling lonely" are now right up there with acute depression and mental illness. When I was a kid we could be happy with a single toy and being on our own. Not now. Secondly, I think AI is almost certainly the greatest threat to human civilisation ever! Whatever humankind invents, however good or well-intentioned, there are those malevolent individuals, organisations and countries that will subvert it - with criminal intent. We should be VERY wary of it.
My kids are young, with exception of rare plane rides, my kids do not use phones or iPads. I have seen so many kids at restaurants and grocery stores glued to their phones not engaging. Sure, my kids are more trouble now because they are not as quiet as a kid on a phone. But we hope it pays off later. You know what my older kid loves to do? Read.
Yes, but then to be social you need something in common with others. If nobody else reads, and they all play videogames, non friends. Balance. It's the only way. Everything, just in moderation.
@@MarcoBonechi You’re not entirely wrong. And my kids won’t hit 18 without exposure to these things. They have to be able to regulate these things before they become adults. But their brains develop so much at an early age. And I’m not sacrificing my kids brains for convenience.
When parents let their kids spend more time on the mind numbing smart phone, rather than with a book, they must accept the price to pay for unintended consequences they inflict upon their children. Kudos to your older kid for the love of reading. Best way to prep a developing brain.🤔
I have tried to go out and make friends ever since becoming disabled 8 years ago. Even when I found someone willing to talk, about 80% of those were akin to conversing with a 5th grader...
It's different in Canada. I drove up on a road trip last year and within 30 minutes of being in Creston, was in a long conversation with someone at a Fish and Chips place. People look up and smile at you. I am going back in November. I am sick of the USA. Where I live, we have traffic deaths every other day because of crazy drivers.
@@QED_the problem is the educated demos let everything go which cost more money than the idiot republican can afford. Answer is money cares nothing about America just stupid policies. The dumb idiots are more educated tan the 22 year old who is protesting. And is ok with killing babies. Demo world is pretty shitty
Does Bill give his audience free drinks and lines of cocaine before the show goes in the air? Their hooting and clapping after every sentence like drunks at a tailgate for a last place NFL team is becoming unbearable
That horse is long gone and that barn door has been nailed shut. Black mirror wasn't a look into the future, it was a reaction to what has already happened.
Serious quesion: I wonder how much the loud laughers get paid per show. My guess is $150-$300 or maybe they are considered actors and they have to pay them scale? I dont really know how any of that works.
"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal, French philosopher
It's a dam good thing that phones and the internet fix that issue. 🤦♀️ People are lonely because "socializing" COSTS HALF YOUR RENT! Name 1 free thing friends can do THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE THE INTERNET!(the cheapest entertainment by far)
@1:39 "And even when we do go out, the earbuds stay in". Goodness, don't tell Bill about this new invention called the Walkman. It's due to come out in 1979. People have been listening to the radio, or a cassette, or a CD, or an MP3, or an audio stream for decades. I'd rather listen to my favorite music on the train to work or a plane to a vacation instead of someone screaming into their phone or a kid crying. And if someone is trying to talk to me on the train, my shoes better be untied or some part of me is on fire because no one is that much of a social butterfly to strike up a conversation with a total stranger.
People always complain about phones, but before phones we had iPods, newspapers and magazines to keep us entertained and occupied instead. I'm 100% in agreement with you, why the fuck would I NOT wear my earbuds when I'm doing some task like taking the train, at the grocery store, in a waiting room, so I can sit in silence next to strangers? No thanks lol.
Reminds me of one course I took in college - new media. I remember the professor making the argument we were becoming ‘cyborgs’ as phones had become an extension of ourselves. Somewhat hard for me to appreciate at the time, now I look back and see the foreshadowing. That was 10 years ago!
@@helletenbrix9614 I hear you. I have a smartphone, but I don't live on it. More often than not, it runs out of charge before I use it. I'm sure youngies would call me a dinosaur "boomer", but I'm a dinosaur boomer with an active social life - that is, an actual face-to-face social life, not a nebulous bunch of crypto-friends on social media who I would probably avoid like the plague in real life.
Most of the people I've met who are always looking at their phone, I call them phony's, seems like they're an extension of their phones, not the other way around.
"Roll through the check out line with a 6 pack and a box of condoms" I worked as a cashier at Walmart. A young couple came up with a box of condoms, and a couple of 5hr energy shots.
In Japan, the people Bill Maher describes are called shut-ins. Their lives revolve around home. Well, I am one of these people who kind of sees himself as a shut-in and I don't feel lonely. I am always busy. I am always doing something. I love being home. Home is where my heart is and I am by myself. Single. I cherish being single and by myself. I don't seek AI girlfriends. I don't go out much and on this I would agree, I should get out more. But I really enjoy the warmth of home. Why is that so bad?
Well, the bottom line is if you’re happy then that’s what matters the most although social isolation is probably not a healthy way to live. Some people just aren’t good at being social, or just don’t want to
Why do you let people tell you that you need to get out more? If YOU feel you need to get out today,go. If you are content at home, stay. Make the decision each day for that day. Happily at home. Yesterday, full day out to parks on Whidbey Island and then 3 course meal in 3 different restaurants (1 course per restaurant) with 2 friends. Today viewing solar eclipse. Last week solitude except for dental cleaning and walking. Just be whatever and however is contentment for you
Speaking of different types of new rules. The type so many now come up with all on their own. How we are to speak, to behave, to think, what words we are to use etc. New rule - We stop telling people what new rules there are every time we come up with a new way for others to behave just to appease us. Why is it that so many want you to sacrifice your comfort zone in order to preserve theirs? That is a question I would love to see answered by anybody demanding certain behaviours from others. Why is your comfort zone more precious than mine? Why do you expect me to break for you when you refuse to even bend?
You present one hell of a strange loop. We have to figure out how to make AI really, really stupid, negating the reason for it's existing....but then just like congress it has to learn to be even stupider yet but that's the opposite of learning. And it just get's more bizarre the more one thinks about it.
I have a cat who could govern more effectively than the GOP contingent in the House. My neighbor’s dog was approached to run for Speaker…but he bit the chihuahua who suggested it..
New rule: that annoying guy in the audience who loudly screams "WHOOO!" is not allowed in the building anymore
He’s a plant, of course. Colbert uses them, too. Imagine those guys coming in for the interview: “…ok, let’s hear your laugh.” Pathetic.
I'm looking at a career in whooting. I didn't even know this was a job until I started noticing the "Whooting" going on when Bill supposedly said something funny or meaningful. Who is Bill's Whooter and what is he getting paid? WHOOT!
Last year it was a woman with an annoying howl.If Americans need a prompt to tell them what's funny, I can see how an orange pussy grabber could get 70 million or so people to follow and vote for him. From afar it's like watching Ali step into the ring..but the parkinsons version.
It's always been my opinion that Whoo Guy is just a rando in the audience who wants to be able to say "That's Me!" when they show people the episode they were there for.
New rule, you don’t get to take the top comment on this video, rewrite it in a slightly different way, and then post the same comment in order to get interaction in the comment section 😂 how about that rule?
Please do away with the "WOO HOO!" guy. After EVERY joke??? C'mon, Bill!
Woo!
Stylin and profilin
Ric Flair doesn't work for cheap.
Come up with an original comment. Stop repeating the top comments on a video and putting it in your own words. You have zero creativity
He loves people who stroke his ego.
That episode of the Twilight Zone to which you refer is one of the most beautiful, and still makes me cry. The poor, frightened old woman who won't open her door to her tiny, dark basement home does so when someone she believes is a Policeman has been shot. She opens her door to Robert Redford, in one of his first roles, and makes him comfortable. They talk, and she tells him she's afraid of opening the door to Death. Aren't we all? By the end of the story, she realizes that the handsome young man is Death, but he comes, not as a monster, but as a friend, to lead her out of her dark and up into the light. We all have to get over being afraid of what might happen, and walk out into the light, where there is beauty and people. My experience is that most folks are good, nice, and friendly. Don't shut yourself in and them out. You are missing something wonderful.
@kt9166
How insightful and lovely. 💖
@kt9166 I totally agree with you about the Twilight Zone episode. I mean, Robert Redford at the the start of his career. Oh my! 😘
Sorry, I grew up on Steven Spielberg‘s “Poltergeist.”
DON’T GO INTO THE LIGHT!!! 💀
Wonderful episode. Beautifully portrayed by Redford and the frightened woman. A classic that is relevant today.
@@anderseckstrand7033 I knew Zelda Rubenstein (Tangina Barrons, the psychic) personally. She was a real sweetheart. We worked together in a Blood Bank near downtown L.A. back in the late 1970's. 💙😘
This summer I read The Secret Garden, a kids book from 1911. You know what the message was? Staying inside, being afraid of getting sick, and having a victim mentality is exactly what makes you sick. Too bad it's from before 2009, so now it's banned in Canada.
Whoever the guy was yelling in the audience at every word, I hate you.
It's one of his writers
It's an audio blow job and it is pathetic.
Same.
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@@nickc247he should be fired
That one guy yelling WOO! through the whole show made me stop watching. Obnoxious
That is every episode.
Yes, I heard that his name is Richard Comehard.
He's so annoying.
It's why I don't go to concerts anymore.
He's always standing next to me, yelling and whistling in my ear.
And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
I had to switch off
You’re always so right about what’s going on in this country. Kudos to you for your insightfulness and wit. 👏🏻
Not at all. Bill has strong opinions, but he has been factually incorrect about a lot of things.
It’s not his fault, our mainstream media gets things wrong because they want to promote a certain narrative instead of actually having journalistic integrity. 🤷♂️
Wasn't Bill an ardent supporter of Gavin Newsome and his lockdowns?
Staying home from school?
Was he right about the Biden administration being better than the Trump administration?
The audience sound like exactly the kind of people who give each other high fives and cheer at the end of the movie Independence Day.
Who is the guy in the audience woo hooing and whooping away after every joke ??? Who does that
It’s a phony laugh track it’s not a real person. Bill needs it to make him seem funny. His jokes aren’t that good.
A yahoo
Can you guys please ask your paid hooting and hollering plant to chill
This is my first time seeing this, and i was thinking ''the guy ''WOO HOO!!'' ing at everything must be paid for that lmao
Yea that’s enough of him stop that shit
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@@mariomaniac581He is paid, it's one of his writers
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Bill obviously has the best paid warm up comedian in the business. The guy whoops and hollers for Bill even inhaling. Baby got bills!😂
HA HA HA HA WOOOO!!! HAA HAAHAAAAAAA
Nothing cures loneliness faster than a Minister of Loneliness.
I wonder if the minister has a hands-on approach to help citizens with their loneliness.
I think it was his crew members or a bunch of military guys.😂. Was really annoying though.
I need a Minister of Flatulence
You’d think Bill was the funniest comedian in the entire world with the amount that one guy goes “HAHAHAHA WOOOO”
It’s Rick Flair
I think it’s probably part of the cameraman’s contract 🤔
He's a professional Woooer.
He gets paid by the Woooo! I stopped counting after 25.
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And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
The guy who keeps singing WOO! can be the first to be sent to play outside. Every week, while the show is being made.
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Very very performative woo-ing
Woohoo 🙌
is he a regular? I haven't heard him before but I'm not a regular watcher. Dude was definitely annoying though - cheering as if Maher was sinking 3's in the championship basketball game.
@@byucatch22 Every episode for about a year or more. I unsubscribed.
I would rather be home by myself feeling lonely then be in a room full of people feeling lonely.
then thats weird.
I totally agree with you.
Not me. Many people trying to overcome their fears is better than many people submitting to them.
people are the worst and ruin everything. no need to have a pointless chit chat with anyone. fuck people, fuck society, live your own life. people aren't necessary to be happy.
@geraldgarcia777 Keep your circle small including only people you really trust. And even they can disappoint you at times.
Loneliness has been a problem in modern society for decades. Taxi Driver came out almost 50 years ago and it's main theme is the loneliness the character experiences. The harsh truth is we live in an incredibly lonely and disconnected society, where the majority of people just go to work, or even work remotely, then come home to watch tv or go on the internet. After you leave school there is simply no real social structure in place, outside of work, to make friends and meet new people. I've lived in multiple places over the years and have literally never spoken to any of my neighbors. There's no sense of community in our society, you're just surrounded by strangers all doing your own thing.
I am in total agreement with you, but it wasn’t always like that. I think really the invention of the Internet and especially the smart phone has been the main culprit. I grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s before the Internet and people were just a lot more friendly and open and approachable. Now everybody’s paranoid and defensive and suspicious of everything because all we hear is negative news constantly it’s really a plague, no one wants to really deal with anybody anymore. The worlds become too difficult and stressful too much noise and confusion so we all retreat into our own little cocoons. The art of avoidance has taken over.
I think there is now, an underlying fear of the consequences of getting friendly with people!...Will this person somehow take advantage of me?...will he/she want to fool around with my spouse?...Will their friends break into my home?.......I mean, we see bad stuff on the local news, and then watch"Forensic Files"....We feel vulnerable to being exploited, etc. I am old now, and I certainly am guilty of feeling that way!
@@curbozerboomer1773 what you are describing is simply paranoia and fear being rampant in your life, and it basically limit your ability to experience people, you’re limiting yourself big time via unnecessary worry
The social contract is breaking down. Us millennials will probably see this country collapse in our lifetimes.
@@cpthornman I certainly hope not.
With the hoot-n-hollering in the audience, you would think this was Bill's roadhouse set.
With the bitch-n-moaning in the comments section about the audience, you know damn well those making such comments failed to find sunlight, much less a more constructive hobby during the writer's strike.
@@scarpfish sunlight is for gays and their parades
@@scarpfishWith your drinking-n-consooming, you would think better than to disregard criticism, especially when many of those striking writers you mentioned are hacks.
It is funny because I am the guy who never really wanted to be around people in the first place to the point of being anti-social, but always observed my social graces in public. Now, I am the guy who "stands too close" in the checkout line, makes people uncomfortable in a theater because I only left one empty seat between me and people I don't know instead of two empty seats, and who doesn't "mind his own business" (actually got said to me by a lady) when I returned a child's toy that had bounced away from them in a restaurant. I'm doing exactly the same things I've done for 35 years.
What Bill says about dying any way but unnoticed is spot on. Someone I knew cut themselves off so much that it was almost a month before they were found and only because the landlord called in a wellness check to the police. No one should go out like that.
I'll probably go out like that unless it happens in public around other people. I'll be in the house rotting until the landlord doesn't get their rent and sends someone to check on me.
That'll be me, or out working in an environmental preserve. A month might go by...maybe more.
It's not loneliness. It's just me happier outside and around other species.
Can that guy in the crowd be quiet? Jesus!
The audience in this episode has been so obnoxious, I don't even feel like laughing when Bill actually tells a good joke.
yeah turn down the volume on that fucking audience lol jesus christ that's annoying
i either can't hear what Bill is saying or i get my eardrums blown out every 15 seconds
He's always had the worst audience. God I wish whoever works on the audio on this show would point the mics away from them at least.
Plus the constant applause after every statement made is annoying. Every episode, I say multiple times to let them finish their thought. There would be a lot more content given if the panel weren't interrupted every minute. I liked it better during the pandemic where there wasn't the obnoxious audience.
@@jeffs6090 All late night shows benefited a lot from having no audience. The Daily Show experiemented with no audience even after, but I think they're back now.
I can't listen to it, it is so annoying. Bill' audiences are the absolute worst. They whoop at everything and contradict their own whoops. I often just turn off the sound and watch with subtitles.
As someone who moved to the States in *his* mid-20s, I can confirm that connecting with people has been extremely difficult.
as cheesy as this sounds, you’re not alone. really… he just confirmed it.
it is super difficult. i also suffer from this. recently divorced & a single mother. i don’t even know how to be now days. all i can say is, it gets harder as you get older. you’re young & able to have a social life. so take a chance, go outside & say hi. if you don’t connect with someone maybe you’ll connect with nature🖤
I lost interest 55 years ago. Not a problem. I have not killed anyone or developed addictions. My blood pressure is still OK. I look at connections as incidental rather than a significant outcome. Just like happiness; if you strive for it, it is elusive.
Everyone wants to connect, but in the end, we all assume everyone is a serial killer.
@@seanwickham8905 good point. Somehow everyone looks as if they cannot be trusted with anything. It's probably because they also think the same about you.
Why did you bold "his"
Bill, I live in a lower income working class neighborhood. Kids are all over the place playing outside. Bicycles and tree climbing, mild vandalism... all are much more common than iPads and ear buds.
You look at the world through suburbanite glasses.. Sorry about the world you choose to live in, we're doing just fine, thanks.
It's good, though, because it makes me optimistic about that old prediction: "The meek shall inherit the earth" So, y'all just carry on, and good luck to you!
It’s the audience. They completely ruin these things
Crowd applause and cheering are mixed WAY too high.
Unoriginal comment, think for yourself, stop copying the top comments on a video. Cringe.
Seemed the same as when I went to the taping, have you been, at all?
Outside the couple hyper-caffeinated 'whoopers'
Annoying
I know it. I swear it's the same asshole every time
Going out isn't the solution if everyone else around is unwilling to socialize. I went to a standup comedy show alone, and not much bonding can occur while talking to couples necking or chatting quietly among each other. I passed out the event info to everyone I knew last week, that might go. Only had one person available & interested. He took ages to respond to messages, got distracted, and wouldn't fully read my messages when I gave more info for things like parking prices, and ticket options. Night of the event, he acted like he was gonna go, then cuddled with his GF at her place, and passed out til it was too late. I was holding a seat for nothing and gave it up eventually when I got wifi and he explained how he fucked up. I wasn't enjoying all the tobacco and weed smokers in line. Going out involves dealing with assholes, so society doesn't make it appealing for lonely ppl that are willing to reach out. And random chit chat doesn't matter if it doesn't lead to exchanged numbers and eventual fostered bonds. It's like pulling teeth to make that happen.
I'm a 24-year-old heterosexual man and I've been following Bill Maher since I was 14 years old. I was always a very awkward and introverted young man and quite frankly I was and still am a late bloomer. When COVID-19 occurred I was a 20-year-old who was too shy to talk to girls, but I was making real progress and was starting to get out of my shell. Then COVID-19 happened and I regressed back into my childhood shyness and dug myself a mental hole over the year and a half of COVID that I still haven't been able to climb out of. I got addicted to the internet and didn't know how to talk to people. I want to go out and meet people but I have no idea where to go and when I do go places there are rarely any available women (at least so far that's the case). I tried dating sites but those don't work for me and I'm stuck in a crappy job at a pizza place. I'm working on myself and while I appreciate Bill talking about isolation and struggling young men, I think he should have a young man like me on his show to talk about the problem directly with him. I may be Generation z, but in many ways, I feel that I am an old soul and a boomer at heart.
You're right, it's way harder to meet people, but it's possible. The more you go out the more you increase your odds. When I had anxiety over talking to women I started very small. First it was learning to talk to anybody. Every time you go to the grocery store, talk to the cashier, never go to self checkout. Use this as a test to see if you can have a natural and fun conversation. If you fail, no one cares.
I don't drink coffee, but I would go to coffee shops just to practice talking to people in line, asking them what they like. Be respectful, take genuine interest in what the other person is saying, and don't try to GET anything from the other person. Do it just to enjoy the conversation. When we are happy and healthy we attract people who have a similar vibe.
I kind of felt that way too. Latter half of 2010s I was getting way better with socialization, making friends, finally felt like I was getting out of my shell. COVID brought me back to square 1.
Also, unrelated, but consider applying to more jobs. And do it IN PERSON. You would be surprised how many jobs just require someone who has basic intelligence, is responsible, and will put in the hours to do a good job. Just walk into places and ask if you can talk to a manager and ask if they are hiring. Literally no one does this, and if you can convince someone you have integrity and work ethic, it greatly improves your chances. You may get 100 no's, but 1 yes will sets you up with a job with better pay where you can advance.
Even though I was and am anything but introvert, I was always and still am very shy with women. I had my first serious girlfriend when I was one year older then your current age. Now I'm 43, married and with a wonderful boy almost turning 2.
I thought that's what bars for... try to get drunk lol
Bro that one guy in the audience shouting and whooing after every joke is so fucking annoying lol
That's the exact intent.
And yet I’m on my phone stoned watching bill maher
Laptops at home work fine for the same show.
Me too 😂
Well at least you bothered to stone yourself first.
Lol
Stoned watching on firestick here lol
I live in rural Australia - now. I used to be a "city slicker", but I moved to the country about 15 years ago and never looked back. I know the names of all the local shopkeepers, tradespeople and delivery folks, and they know mine. I chat with my neighbours over the fence. I swap hellos with people I pass in the street, even if we don't know each other. And yet I am - or was - by nature, an _introvert._ Whether this is the same in rural USA, I don't know. But it seems to me that isolation is more of a problem in the cities than it is in the country. It's paradoxical that the more people are concentrated together in large numbers, the more they want to distance themselves from one another.
You still sound isolated. I also chat with the shopkeeper sometimes, or with the neighbour in the elevator out of desperation, but that doesn't ease my lonliness even a bit.
"Overreaction" is a word used to describe covid by people who didnt work in healthcare at the time. It was awful. The lockdowns were terrible, but had there been more transmission, the hospitals like the one i worked at would have been completely overrun and deaths would have skyrocketed.
That was so clear (and I don't even work in health care). I lose respect for Bill's thinking skills when he whines immaturely since he doesn't acknowledge the alternative scenario. It''s very self-righteous. In the acute phase lots were dying weekly and what had to be done had to be done. Over time as the pandemic progressed not everything was done perfectly but nothing ever is
One of the best pieces of advice my friend gave me after she had relocated to a new town and heard I was going to be moving elsewhere too, is to start by fostering interactions with 'familiar strangers'. These are people you see regularly enough to say hello to or make small talk, but are unlikely to become actual friends with. People you see at certain times of the day - eg waiting for a bus, walking their dog. After a while, you may give each other a nod of recognition, a smile or comment on the weather. She also picked a local newsagent and every Monday and Friday bought the same specific items so the shop assistant started to notice and would give a smile, maybe a brief chat too. It sounds dumb, but she had such social anxiety and knew I was the same. Going to the same coffee shop or park at a regular day/time can help in a small way with loneliness, or the dreaded - jeeze, I haven't spoken to a single person in three days realisation. Weather, traffic, celebrity gossip, even overhearing a conversation ahead of you in a checkout line and commenting when it is your turn to be served, can stave off the horrific weight of disconnection that surges within us from time to time. Ask a checkout person if they have tried an item of food you are buying or comment on how busy or quiet the shop is - and as much as possible- go through a checkout with a real person. None of these actions are ones I find easy, but I try and force myself to engage in some kind of small talk whenever I go into town. Living alone, yep, it's easy and far more preferable to keep closed in. More so when going out is expensive/unaffordable. Hope this helps someone.
I think this is such a great comment!! I agree 💯%.
I was lucky enough to have a Dad who could strike up a conversation with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Super embarrassing when I was a kid, but now as an adult I'm the same way and I see how important it is to connect with other people in exactly the way you described. Sometimes it's just a comment about how long the line is at the grocery store, or how much you both hate self-checkout lol! Other times it's resulted in some really funny stories. I was on vacation once halfway across the world and I saw two women taking pictures at a famous landmark. I asked, would you like me to take a picture of you two together? Turns out one of the women grew up directly across the street in the 60's from where I live today...bizarre. I found after COVID and lockdown is that I make an effort to be nicer in every interaction...it really helps me when I'm having a bad day
Again, awesome comment...Thanks! 😄
@@js-93308 Bless you. Your dad sounds like mine 😁How freaky about meeting someone from your home town so far away. One of my favourite recollections is when I was temp working at a museum. I'd only done a few shifts and the fire alarm went off. A crowd of us huddled outside and a man next to me smiled and said he was glad as he'd been researching in their library for too long and needed a break. I asked what he was researching and it was medical sociology which I'd no clue about. It sounded fascinating so I looked into it and ended up doing a (non-medical) Sociology degree which I greatly enjoyed, instead of taking Drama which I'd been hesitating about. You really never know where a five min chat with a stranger may lead 😁
@@yzolakitchi Wow! That's a great story and so true! Your life trajectory can change in an instant because of one random event & one random encounter. Sociology sounds fascinating... I've always been really interested in human behavior. I Love RUclips, there is so much rich content. The Huberman lab is my favorite.
I've have one more funny story...
I met one of my dearest friends in a thunderstorm at the beach... I was determined to make it back to my car on my rollerblades and he screamed something to the effect...Are you crazy, get over here, you're going to get hit by lightning! I listened and ducked for cover too, that was almost 30 years ago... Life can be very interesting when you keep your eyes open 😀
This doesn't help anyone, what we need is deep, meaningful relationships with people who love us and who we love. Smalltalk not gonna help with that.
@@sofiasininen8268 yes, absolutely. This is a jumping off point for people with social anxiety, introverts or limited support networks. Meaningful relationships are always the goal but not achievable for many. It has long been known that going days without talking to another person is detrimental to mental wellbeing and can exacerbate existing mental health conditions. These tips are to help with that and can absolutely provide some comfort and mental stability. But as you say, they are no substitute for deeper, loving connection and aren't meant to be. Some days though, baby steps are all we can manage. 😌 Hope that clarified my previous comment. 🥰
The applause and laughter are absurd.
Woo!!
SO obnoxious. I wish he'd get an AI audience.
If the audience doesnt do it, Bill berates them and it feels even more uncomfortable.
I wud rather be alone than around the wrong ppl.
Like I mentioned earlier...there is now a lack of trust in our society.
This. I'm done with so-called "friends" who expect me to always initiate contact to hang out. And then when you actually hang out, they use you as a therapist to complain about their wife and kids. Better alone than with these type of people.
@@youssef16844 it's called- Selfish. 🤗
@@curbozerboomer1773 there is coldness and selfishness in our society more.
Every once in awhile, there is some new "pun" to make me smile. Its been a long time between. But whoever coined the term "The Lone Danger" thank you
How about A.I. artificial insemination ,,, please like... I need approval.
It's great to hear someone that has a good handle on reality now and then
The irony of this is how many people would rather be lonely than listen to some guy yelling HA HA HA HAAAAAA WHOOOOO at 34 decibels every 8 seconds
Way more than 34 decibels.
His paid laugh track is getting out of hand.
So is the comments section peanut gallery who keeps complaining about it like it's the highlight of their week.
HAHAHA WOOOOOOHHHOOOOOO!!!!!!
Not paid, free tickets and no catering. I went in 2016
This video makes me never want to speak to another human ever again. Sounds freaking great.
On my daily morning dog walk, I pass a bus stop for kids going to junior high. There's about a dozen kids there and even though they are surrounded by other kids the same age, having many of the same interests; listening to the same music, watching the same Internet, so much in common, not one of them ever looks up from their phone. I have never seen a one of them talking with the kids standing right next to them.
Personally, I can't wait till I retire so that I can isolate even more.
I'm already there and because I am a person who have to be always doing something I thought it would be hard however, I have so much peace and tranquility in my life I do not want to go back to work.
No deadlines to meet, no boss nagging me why I am not making my time commitments.
The most stressful part of my day is making a decision on what I'm going to cook for dinner.
Even though I thought I would go back to work.
u're part of the problem them ain't u
I have absolutely QUIT going out for ANY REASON. Everything Is Delivered and I don't even see or speak to them. EVERY TIME and I mean EVERY. TIME. I go to a store for something? I GET TREATED LIKE I AM AN INTERUPTION IN THEIR DAY! Today while I was digging for my debit card, I was told I could not sit in the SUBWAY SANDWICH SHOP AT WALMART On 1923 East Kearny Street In Springfield MO UNLESS I WAS THERE TO BUY SOMETHING! I am a recent heart patient and had sat down to catch my breath and to look for my debt card, The Turkey Sandwich was SEVENTEEN DOLLARS!!! I walked Away and Left It There. PEOPLE ARE BEING SO DAMN MEAN! I HATE HAVING TO LEAVE MY HOME!
Consider advising folks about your recent health malady/condition, please.
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You will garner sympathy, most certainly, and
Don't give up, hope❣️
There are many good helpers out there.
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Your luck will turn back to you.
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Be patient.
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Be Fonzie Cool.
👍👍.
Keep Calm, always.
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The only upside to loneliness is no drama to deal with😊
Try to remember that when you are feeling lonely.
@@donwinslow2803 I never think about it to be honest with you
That one guy the studio paid to say WOOOO needs to be isolated and lonely!!
People are definitely a lot more aggressive as well . Went to a bar a few months back in Long Island and haven’t gone back since , the vibe is just off ..
I love staying home . Love it . A good book , a cup of tea ....
You must be British
Because they love tea or reading books? 🙄
I'm an American and I happen to like reading books and drinking tea. I also like cappuccino in the morning with my toasted bagel.🤷♂️
is it beneficial for you in the long run though?
@@equisde8026Yes because most people are selfish trash.
@@equisde8026yes
The haha guy is on every show. He’s their hired laugh box. He queues the audience. It is something I really hope they realize is ridiculous and that everyone can tell.
I can feel more lonely in a room full of people sometimes
I don’t know who that one guy that always laughs the loudest on all of these videos but it is proper cringe. The jokes are funny and - most of the time - hit the right points. I don’t need canned applause.
Meanwhile I am listening to this on my phone,alone after waiting all day for Amazon to deliver stuff.
Crapazon
I work from home, have a peloton in my office, and wouldn't have it any other way.
I love working at home by myself.
There is nothing wrong with people who are reserved and likes to be alone. They are called introverts. Doesn't mean that they are lonely. I'm just saying that there is big difference between lonely and alone.
Do they bring back that same laughing audience member every week?
Yeah. A paid whoo
He's a regular named Richard Tool.
My guess is it’s someone on staff. But yeah, super annoying…
Pretty sure cell phones might have something to do with those huge increases in road crashes...
That screen and the screen your car now has is also distracting drivers
The "WHOOO!" guy was spot on for the 6pac and box of condoms joke.
A huge amount of good common sense in this one.
Personally, I think the terms "mental illness" and "depression" are overworked and applied far too freely.
What we used to call "bored" or "feeling lonely" are now right up there with acute depression and mental illness. When I was a kid we could be happy with a single toy and being on our own. Not now.
Secondly, I think AI is almost certainly the greatest threat to human civilisation ever! Whatever humankind invents, however good or well-intentioned, there are those malevolent individuals, organisations and countries that will subvert it - with criminal intent.
We should be VERY wary of it.
That Woooo! Guy lmao
My kids are young, with exception of rare plane rides, my kids do not use phones or iPads.
I have seen so many kids at restaurants and grocery stores glued to their phones not engaging. Sure, my kids are more trouble now because they are not as quiet as a kid on a phone. But we hope it pays off later.
You know what my older kid loves to do? Read.
"...with exception of rare plane rides..."? Do you feel better after posting this obvious nonsense? Suffering from too much social media much?
Yes, but then to be social you need something in common with others. If nobody else reads, and they all play videogames, non friends. Balance. It's the only way. Everything, just in moderation.
@@PCtransplant I’m not sure what you’re point is. I’m just being honest.
If I said my kids never use iPads, that wouldn’t be true.
@@MarcoBonechi You’re not entirely wrong. And my kids won’t hit 18 without exposure to these things. They have to be able to regulate these things before they become adults.
But their brains develop so much at an early age. And I’m not sacrificing my kids brains for convenience.
When parents let their kids spend more time on the mind numbing smart phone, rather than with a book, they must accept the price to pay for unintended consequences they inflict upon their children. Kudos to your older kid for the love of reading. Best way to prep a developing brain.🤔
Tech is mainly to blame. I totally agree, we truly have anti-social media. It dominates.
So good to have your show back, Bill.
With this monologue, Bill, your transformation into Andy Rooney is complete.
Lol. It’s the truth.
Nice. I remember Mr Eyebrows, at the end of 60 Minutes…
More like Dennis Miller….with better joke writers
I'm just mild about Bill. Barely cracked a smile on this. The world is not funny and Bill has become the unfunny poster boy.
[Palpatine voice] "Good... goooooood. Let the butthurt flow through you..."
I'm going to call this one the State of the Union. It's the absolute truth without the gaslighting
This forum:
10% replies about the subject content
20% about Bill
70% about the loud guy in the audience
I have tried to go out and make friends ever since becoming disabled 8 years ago. Even when I found someone willing to talk, about 80% of those were akin to conversing with a 5th grader...
And 5th grade education . . . isn't half of what it used to be.
What passes for knowledge has been driven by politics, media, and industry for decades- academia collateral damage.
It's different in Canada. I drove up on a road trip last year and within 30 minutes of being in Creston, was in a long conversation with someone at a Fish and Chips place. People look up and smile at you. I am going back in November. I am sick of the USA. Where I live, we have traffic deaths every other day because of crazy drivers.
@@QED_the problem is the educated demos let everything go which cost more money than the idiot republican can afford. Answer is money cares nothing about America just stupid policies. The dumb idiots are more educated tan the 22 year old who is protesting. And is ok with killing babies. Demo world is pretty shitty
I'm curious, where is it that you're/you were having these interactions?
Does Bill give his audience free drinks and lines of cocaine before the show goes in the air? Their hooting and clapping after every sentence like drunks at a tailgate for a last place NFL team is becoming unbearable
It's all one guy! Ric Flair according to someone above.
Ric Flair gon go “WOO” on a bich! 🤣
Thanks for covering this topic, Bill.
'... go play outside.' Words of wisdom 😊
worst audience in television. they just want to hear themselves guffawing with their fake "laughter"
Haha yep...the one guy loud laugher in every segment tonight is either a staged duck or a random total goofball.
Bill hasn't been funny in a decade. Bunch of grumpy Boomers.
Life is quickly turning into an episode of Black Mirror.
That horse is long gone and that barn door has been nailed shut. Black mirror wasn't a look into the future, it was a reaction to what has already happened.
That's coz when the tech industry watches that show, they get Nutty ideas.
Or Blackadder
@@awalton90240:15 😮😊
only in western civilization, in the far east we are fine.
BIll spilling truth that's the Bill we love
This should be renamed “Sad But True.” For the record: I love you all.
Serious quesion: I wonder how much the loud laughers get paid per show. My guess is $150-$300 or maybe they are considered actors and they have to pay them scale? I dont really know how any of that works.
Who is the annoying audience member who WHOOOoos more than Rick Flair?
Exactly
it's hilarious Woooo!
Haha
"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal, French philosopher
It's a dam good thing that phones and the internet fix that issue. 🤦♀️
People are lonely because "socializing" COSTS HALF YOUR RENT!
Name 1 free thing friends can do THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE THE INTERNET!(the cheapest entertainment by far)
@@Alexa-Raine I don't know. What did people do for thousands of years before the internet?
@@sharonmassey2923 you mean before late stage capitalism? 😂
@@Alexa-Raine One thing I learned from pandemic lockdowns is that the company of other people is highly overrated.
To all of you criticizing the "WOO" guy: that happens to be my father. He was lobotomized last year.
Hopefully Bankman-Fried's jail has a better barber.
Hope is not a plan
Bill Maher!
New Rule, Real Time awesomeness!
thank you so much for saying this !!!!
I love you, Bill. Thanks. 100.
My mother would lock me outside, I had ring the doorbell and ask to come back inside
Mother dearest
Lucky you. You had a mother and a doorbell and got to be outside instead of indoors with your mom. And you weren’t kidnapped?
Get a bike. You get exercise and you don’t HAVE to stop until you want too.
Loved the irony of watching this on my phone! Great performance art. Get off my phone Bill!
The “bubble wrap” safety movement was already well under way before the pandemic.
Yes... for decades.
@1:39 "And even when we do go out, the earbuds stay in".
Goodness, don't tell Bill about this new invention called the Walkman. It's due to come out in 1979. People have been listening to the radio, or a cassette, or a CD, or an MP3, or an audio stream for decades.
I'd rather listen to my favorite music on the train to work or a plane to a vacation instead of someone screaming into their phone or a kid crying.
And if someone is trying to talk to me on the train, my shoes better be untied or some part of me is on fire because no one is that much of a social butterfly to strike up a conversation with a total stranger.
People always complain about phones, but before phones we had iPods, newspapers and magazines to keep us entertained and occupied instead. I'm 100% in agreement with you, why the fuck would I NOT wear my earbuds when I'm doing some task like taking the train, at the grocery store, in a waiting room, so I can sit in silence next to strangers? No thanks lol.
@@forman208 but you didn't have Facebook or Instagram that one constantly checks to see if they get likes
I converse with strangers. Learn stuff. Smile. Before 1979, maybe I conversed with voices in my head. Still don’t have buds stuck in my ears
Reminds me of one course I took in college - new media. I remember the professor making the argument we were becoming ‘cyborgs’ as phones had become an extension of ourselves. Somewhat hard for me to appreciate at the time, now I look back and see the foreshadowing. That was 10 years ago!
People are considering me prehistoric bc I don't have a cell phone.Duh, I have a landline and work from home, what's the point?
@@helletenbrix9614 I hear you. I have a smartphone, but I don't live on it. More often than not, it runs out of charge before I use it. I'm sure youngies would call me a dinosaur "boomer", but I'm a dinosaur boomer with an active social life - that is, an actual face-to-face social life, not a nebulous bunch of crypto-friends on social media who I would probably avoid like the plague in real life.
Most of the people I've met who are always looking at their phone, I call them phony's, seems like they're an extension of their phones, not the other way around.
Bill had some strong points but calling it an over reaction to Covid killed his argument. He comes off as an old man yelling back in my day
"Roll through the check out line with a 6 pack and a box of condoms"
I worked as a cashier at Walmart. A young couple came up with a box of condoms, and a couple of 5hr energy shots.
In Japan, the people Bill Maher describes are called shut-ins. Their lives revolve around home. Well, I am one of these people who kind of sees himself as a shut-in and I don't feel lonely. I am always busy. I am always doing something. I love being home. Home is where my heart is and I am by myself. Single. I cherish being single and by myself. I don't seek AI girlfriends. I don't go out much and on this I would agree, I should get out more. But I really enjoy the warmth of home. Why is that so bad?
Home is where you hang your self.
Well, the bottom line is if you’re happy then that’s what matters the most although social isolation is probably not a healthy way to live. Some people just aren’t good at being social, or just don’t want to
Why do you let people tell you that you need to get out more? If YOU feel you need to get out today,go. If you are content at home, stay. Make the decision each day for that day. Happily at home. Yesterday, full day out to parks on Whidbey Island and then 3 course meal in 3 different restaurants (1 course per restaurant) with 2 friends. Today viewing solar eclipse. Last week solitude except for dental cleaning and walking. Just be whatever and however is contentment for you
Don’t SHOULD on yourself. Number one rule in contentment
look up the words "cowardly" and "lazy" in the dictionary
Speaking of different types of new rules. The type so many now come up with all on their own. How we are to speak, to behave, to think, what words we are to use etc. New rule - We stop telling people what new rules there are every time we come up with a new way for others to behave just to appease us. Why is it that so many want you to sacrifice your comfort zone in order to preserve theirs? That is a question I would love to see answered by anybody demanding certain behaviours from others. Why is your comfort zone more precious than mine? Why do you expect me to break for you when you refuse to even bend?
There so much stupidity in there i am too drunk to even break it down. But i get what you are trying to say.
I AGREE "Wholeheartedly"! ☺️👍
Indeed. So glad you're home, Bill.
"For f***'s sake go play outside" is probably the sentence I have said the most in the last 2 years
Yes, there’s an A.I. Jodie Forster now. Bill, this was so on point that i could hardly laugh. Your reference to the movie ‘Her’ was so apt
That movie was so Fn bad. I remember in the 90's there was a PC program for little strippers that would dance in the corner of the screen.
😅 This was really spot on !
Bill Maher: says anything
The one guy in the audience: WOO
You know, it is news like this that make me glad I can still have nice conversations with my family.
Bill Mahar telling us about mingling with the public is like Don Trump telling us what it's like to buy bread.
Perfect😂😂
wrong.he does stand up in vegas every week in front of crowds of the public
@@jcdesantis69is that mingling?
Bill is rewriting Covid history
@@jcdesantis69that’s not really mingling.
Maybe it is because people no longer have the same patience for rules, thus causing car crashes more often.
New rule: Jokes have to be funny for people to laugh
I'm not isolated. I rant and rave when I watch Bill rant and rave. Sometimes he rants and raves to my rants and raves. Life is good :)
When can AI replace congress
You present one hell of a strange loop. We have to figure out how to make AI really, really stupid, negating the reason for it's existing....but then just like congress it has to learn to be even stupider yet but that's the opposite of learning. And it just get's more bizarre the more one thinks about it.
Hopefully SOON. Politics is a joke....no a tragedy bordering on pathological misconduct.
I have a cat who could govern more effectively than the GOP contingent in the House. My neighbor’s dog was approached to run for Speaker…but he bit the chihuahua who suggested it..
Soon
Ok? For real