This has nothing to do with courage. It has everything to do with fear of his audience leaving him.He is in show biz and so are the casting directors. Casting directors choices are based on what brings in the biggest audience. Maher's monologues are also written with this in mind. Its all about money.
@@peterstafford4426 exactly. I was thinking the very same thing. He sees the Winds of politics changing. The progressive left are no longer as popular as they were, he knows that and is switching the messages in his monologues to appeal to the new demographics.
@@mikelundrigan2285 Is English your 2nd language. Your English is excellent! Where did you learn English?😂 nu·anced /ˈn(y)o͞oˌänst/ adjective characterized by subtle shades of meaning or expression.
As a non actor, I find it very offensive when actors play non actors. It's truly the worst form of appropriation. Those roles should be reserved exclusively for us, as non actors are severely under represented in pop culture as a whole, and especially in movies and series. SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
You need to expand your knowledge if you think Hollywood is the beacon of reason and sanity. This is a Hollywood problem not an America problem. Hollywood is not progressive nor the standard for progressives. Hollywood is a corporation that sells entertainment, but for some reason some among them decided to preach as if they are prophets. Ego and fame gone to their heads. They are not prophets, they are not progressive, just entitled rich tax cheats who need to shut up and act. And Bill Maher is one of them. You are a comedian Bill. Make jokes, and leave it at that because your understanding of real society is is your biggest joke.
He uses logic and humorous hyperbole to point out the obvious rational truth as he sees it. Nobody has to agree with his entire truth, but more people should be like that in the news and politics. Using logic that is, instead of tapping into peoples primal emotional centers, which is very manipulative… Oh, wait now I know why.
Bill is about the only well-known commentator whose political and social platform is simply "we should be doing what makes sense and not doing what doesn't", and I appreciate him for that.
actually you are describing quite a few conservative platforms, and no not trumpers conservatives. Marc Dice, Black conservative perspective, and Officer Tatum.
@@raymondlassor7155 no way that is correct. Conservative outlets present a very biased and extreme view. They present one side of a divisive culture war. This subject is pretty nonpartisan. It's a small slice of Americans that are outspoken against actors playing which roles. Most Dems and Repubs don't make that an issue. Filmmakers are just scared of that outspoken Twitter crowd because when even just 1,000 people make a huge deal it gets picked up by all news sources, right and left, because it gets the clicks and that negative attention is unwanted by them. Not a single Democrat I know cares about who plays what role. Conservative media actually makes it a bigger issue than the left does because criticizing Hollywood is central to their politics.
@@OliverandHisDad have you seen the clips Mark Dice does about the actors not playing politically correct roles for them? Or the ones that have ben Shapiro talks about how ridiculous it is? All the ones were also Tatum's talking about that? Or all the other numerous conservative people discussing how ridiculous this cancel cultures getting? Or the lady that was canceled by Disney from that Star wars spinoff that Ben Shapiro hired for her new TV series? But I guess I could be wrong I think her name was Gina something. So I suppose it's the conservatives after all. I guess next you'll say biden's the greatest president ever and Trump had terrible results, right?
As a gay man, I’m glad that Tom played Andrew Beckett. For a straight man to play a gay man in the early 90s had a lot of stigma to it, but to play a gay man with AIDS…that took guts. Tom was able to bring that character to life, and portray the crucial problem of rampant discrimination against both during that time, irrespective of his actual personal life.
And if the movie was made now we could get Lee Pace or any number of actual gay men to play the part. That’s what Bill doesn’t get. It helped us get one of our stories told but now we don’t need straight people pretending to be us on screen.
@Steffi Haas “the likes of us” needed to feel special to counteract what hundreds of years of being told were wrong and disgusting. It’s not a vanity thing. Its righting a wrong in the hopes that people like us stop suffering silently or committing suicide because Christian society tells us we shouldn’t be this way.
@@19031589 honest question: would gay people then only play gay characters? Because then we would miss out on Andrew Scott as the hot priest, Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton, and Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, just to name a few. I want to see more of those actors, not less, but that’s exactly what would happen if they were only to play gay characters from now on.
It's always a joy when someone with a huge audience presents the same thoughts and sentiments I rant about within my four walls! Seriously, it gives me some hope that all is/are not lost. Thanks!
you mean about half of what he says. He is very popular with right wingers because this is the ONLY place you can get anything CLOSE to be funny and bagging on the dems. I think most of his audience are right wingers. They LOVE it. They just ignore the other part of his ideals
@@markfrost2707 I'm not bothered by who may or may not agree with what's expressed in this clip. At this point it's enough to know that one presenter - and/or presumably a crew of writers - are able to see factual sense, even if it's only ocassionally.
It's even weirder when Christian right-wingers like me would rather watch Bill Maher than Fox News. I love how anti-corporate Maher is. I'd much prefer this to pandering on either side
This is one of the best real time you've ever made. I think the problem is the stronger someone believes in something, the less reasonable they become when it doesn't have to be like that. This segment makes so much sense to me.
Bill Maher pulled a red herring with this piece. Bill Maher spoke as a man truly clueless of the history of Hollywood. White actors have received nearly every role in the history of Hollywood. Even roles as characters that were not white! Hollywood is a white dominated industry. If a non-white actors gets a role it's nearly always a stereotypical role, while white actors get to play "diverse" roles? White actors get to play the hero, but black actors get to play an angry black person roles? A white actor gets to play a kung fu master, but an asian actor plays a socially inept nerd? Also for a longtime white Hollywood passed up non-white actors for non-white roles! Bruce Lee got past up for the show Kung Fu because he was "Too Asian"? Desi Arnez argued with white producers, who thought Desi Arnez as too Cuban to be a husband in an multiethnic marriage for "I Love Lucy"? Ellen DeGeneres' show was cancelled in 1998 after coming out as gay? But straight actors can play gay characters and receive little to no consequences? Bill Maher should've thought harder! Hollywood has always played politics!
@@freeform7012 Hollywood is in the USA, the USA has always been a majority "white" country. Should we protest Bollywood for their lack of white representation?
Thank you for this refreshing and frank perspective. I wish others would listen and take this common sense to heart. I have no interest in going to movies anymore. They’ll just keep wondering why movies are failing. 🤷♀️🤦♀️.
Exactly. Boycott Hollywood, don't give them a single cent for the degeneracy they've come to produce. I don't always agree with Bill, but when I do it's usually stuff like this where, apart from many of our leaders and elites apparently, everyone with a brain can clearly see it's wrong. In fact, I'm pretty sure people like Hanks know it too, he's just not brave enough or too money hungry to stand up to the bullies.
This reminds me of a story about Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman in the the movie, The Marathon Man. In order to portray his character being up all night running for a scene, Dustin Hoffman did exactly that, stayed up all night running around the city. The morning they were shooting it, he was all proud of having done that and told Sir Laurence because he wanted to impress his idol. Sir Laurence just looked at him and said, "You're an actor, why waste your sleep when all you have to do is act?"
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing, selling the gospel in any way, collecting money for ministering in any way whatsoever, anyone teaching same sex marriage is a sin when it is NOT, rich people, unrepentant rapists, lying police people, corrupt judges, and all other unrepentant evil people will be in the GREAT TRIBULATIONS - begins September 1 of this year! That includes anyone listing cashapp links and other bank account links on their youtube channel or asking for donations. Lev. was translated wrong billy graham. Refering to pedophilia. "Men shall not molest young boys." Delete or reject the messages sent from the messenger of Malachi 3:1 and you reject Jesus Christ Herself and choose to die with the wicked. Malachi 2 proves Malachi 3:8 is prophetic instruction for the thieving church leaders to bring back the money they were never supposed to take for ministering and God will end Covid. Every major church around the world knew this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much they chose to kill everyone with Covid instead of returning it! James 5:2 Rich people are NOT Christians and the wealth they selfishly kept to themselves will only be used as evidence to burn them. The 2 witnesses are righteousness and judgement, not actual people. There is no ONE antichrist; it was made up by people that worship money. Stay out of the fake churches or you will die with them and their lies. In order to be a church, the place must house people inside it. Otherwise it's another private money-making business serving satan and part of Babylon. There is no such thing as rapture. Jesus comes back to rule. God's people are caught up spiritually... Romans is not referring to Eunuchs where one partner is transgender. Mathew 19:12 🏳️🌈 Eunuchs that are born that way are transgender. It's even in the Bible. Yes, the bible was written by bigoted men and is way outdated and was changed and should be thrown out. But even Jesus spoke about transgender people. Eunuchs made that way by others were abused (it doesn't happen to everyone that is abused). Those that choose to live like Eunuchs FOR THE SAKE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN are bisexual people that choose partners of the same sex characteristics but opposite in regards to gender. Notice, God PREFERS for people to be in LGBT relationships. Eunuchs are same sex couples. One partner is transgender. Transgender is when someone is born with a gender opposite the sex characteristics normally associated with that gender. God made us male or female, determined by gender, located in the brain. Your gender is located in your brain and determined at birth. I have an identical twin sister that is female in gender. I am male in gender. I am Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and that means any discrepancies in the bible are ultimately decided by me. Plus, it states in Deuteronomy that nobody was castrated back then. And that doesn't make sense anyhow. No one is born castrated and no one is born making the decision to be celibate. But, that is what God wanted the lying preachers to think so they wouldn't take it out of the bible. Intersex people still have one gender or another because gender is located in your brain. And Acts 3:22-23 says it will come to pass that anyone that fails to listen to me will be utterly destroyed from among the people. So anyone that says different than this won't be here much longer. It's everyone's choice. Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing or getting paid in any way to minister will also die with the wicked. Peter 2:9 says we are ALL ministers . . . . Jesus was transgender and will return as a woman..... Remember, Malachi 3:8-12 is talking to the thieving church leaders. It's the answer to end Covid and every major church around the world has known this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much, they INTENTIONALLY CHOSE to kill everyone instead of returning it. My preaching will lead to a universal monthly income for everyone. If church leaders dont repent, they won't be here to see it. Their choice . . . .. .. ...
Maher and his writers get an 11/10 for this segment! Laden with pertinent examples, quotes and Bill’s fearless but humorous critique of this tragic social malaise.
@@uverpro3598 I had a Daily Show writer, who followed me on Twitter, put one of my jokes in Trevor's mouth less than 48 hour later. I asked him if I could get credit and he blocked me. So I forwarded my tweet to the daily show and emailed them. never heard anything. Wonder if that "Writer" still works there?
Sadly most of those voicing this out was deemed 'far right' and were cast of out of mainstream media years ago. So, do applaud Bill for raising most of the anti-woke bits, but he's no way a pioneer nor brave
When Morgan Freeman was cast as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption, it wasn't because he was black but because he was the best actor for that role & had the perfect voice to help tell the story. Originally, the character of Red was Irish & got his name because of his red hair.
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'... your hair red, cuz BLIMEY STARS AND GREEN CLOVERS, LEAVE ME POT OF GOLD BE, HOY CHEE CHOY CHEE CHOY, AM I IRISH ENOUGH FOR YE, TWITTER???" -- Morgan Freeman
He was not playing an Irish person. He was playing a black man. Are you high? He wasn’t speaking like an Irish man. You need to stop with you bs. Fidel Castro is a non white person. They could find a non white person to play him.
Thanks for speaking 100% what most of us are thinking. All should have the given right to audition if they fit the profile and criteria, but the role should go to the best actor for the job.
Bill is absolutely correct. When outside forces, especially politics, controls art and the creation of it, art becomes contaminated and winds up either propaganda or garbage.
Eve if grant you this stupid point, bill is still wrong because he's acting like this started in the "woke era" when it has always been this way, it just benefited white people so it wasn't a problem to him. A proof would be apply bills arguments 100 years ago to birth of a nation, he's saying its ok to do black face because there are no "good" black actors l, I wonder if slavery and not being allowrd to read and write played a part in that.
More gay people have played straight characters in the history of Hollywood. This is a fact. Are we going to dump all movies with Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Cesar Romero...just to name just a few?
Bill Maher is completely missing the point here. The point is not about certain people appropriating certain roles. It's about white actors/actresses are able to get all the roles they do not represent, whether it is as native americans, arabians, asians, aliens, tibetans, egyptians, hawaiians or people with scissor-shaped hands. Guess how diversified the roles Asian-looking actors could actually have in an American film? In Hollywood, people who look like an Indian (from India) can only play Indians who speak English with an accent. A Chinese-looking man could only play East Asian roles and that's pretty much the sum of his career oppotunity. An industry that allows a white women to portray a Hawaiian in a country that has a million of REAL Hawaiians is committing not only cultural appropriation but also a disturbing case of racial discrimination. When Hollywood hires people for leading roles they’d hire mainly white actors from across the globe - from uk to Australia to South Africa, Ireland, Canada and Europe. It does seem that Hollywood is not just an American industry but essentially a “white” industry that is committed to storytelling from “the white perspective”. If you are white you get the role, it doesn’t matter if you ‘re not even an American. That, for me, is disconcerting. Some influential directors, like Ridley Scott, are unabashedly “old school” he just refuses to tell a story unless it’s through white actors. He recruited an Australian man to play the pharaoh in Exodus and a white English boy to play a jewish child-god. His latest film Alien Covenant depicts a major space expedition in a hundred years time but there is just one non-white “token” black actor in the whole crew. It’s not even realistic, it’s almost embarrassing. Of course, the future of space expedition should be told once again from the white angle alone.
Brilliant, Bill. You and Ricky Gervais seem to be the only guys with any stones to call out this nonsense. It would have been awesome if Tom Hanks called out this absurdity as well, but apparently he's too afraid of getting cancelled. Same with Eddie Redmayne.
As a strong liberal that values the environment, inclusion, and the woman’s right to choose, the woke part of liberalism is leaving me behind. Thank you Bill for everything you do. Both parties are being split by extremists.
Woke means an awareness of social or racial injustice. Right wing spin doctors have successfully redefined all liberal terminology (Antifa, CRT police reformation) into negative connotations. It doesn’t help when hosts like Maher buy into their false narratives. Woke does not mean political correctness run amuck, which is what Americans really mean to say if they weren’t so dominantly influenced by Conservative propagandists.
As an actor, I couldn’t get more behind this. I agree 100%. People need to let actors be actors as we should let comedians be comedians. If you don’t do that, it’s a complete disservice to art and blinds us from seeing the best actor/actress for the role and impeccable talent on screen.
So Franco is the best actor for the role ? Get outta here. Franco is a shitty over actor. Btw, love your narrative of the best person for the role… very typical of 90s white men complaining about non-whites getting a job at their level…all you need to include is affirmative action and you’ll be set.
I've been always saying it. I have been wanting to do acting and directing and I rather it'd be by merit not by race etc as the "I'm so offended" crowd has done. This whole "we want inclusion but we want people to stay in their own lane" deal is so stupid.
Bill Maher voted for the guy who used his last 4 years to finish the “fundamental change” of the arts, media, and entertainment sector that led us down this path 🤷🏽 There isn’t a corner of the sectors where one can go to just get a compartmentalized experience like it once was; which was people- generally- joined by their particular practical contributions to a project or program with no regard for politics or social preference.
One can only hope you’re right that people are turning away. I feel like it’s losing a bit of steam amongst my friends who are Woke. A bunch of them are beginning to question it and I’m like finally.
Too little too late. The damage is done. These Frankfurt School Proselytes targeted our children years ago. Now they're just waiting for those who disagree to die out. Bill M is funny, but he gave up any credibility or respect. He enables it. He supports the very people who have led this disastrous philosophy, and doesn't have the courage to do anything but talk about it. Hes just banking on the people fighting against it so he can line his pockets.
The Johnny Depp pirate part and Mel Gibson part killed me 😂🤣😂 love how Bill Maher keeps it down to earth. He can be a bit smug and a little biased sometimes but man, does he hit the bull's-eye!! Love hearing his take on current events
Another spot-on bit. I'm glad to see Bill continuing to use his platform to speak obvious truths that for some non-obvious reason nobody else seems willing to say aloud.
He's right that it's stupid, but it's a kind of a waste of a New Rules segment. 1. Race / sexuality pressure groups need publicity to maintain their funding streams. How do they do that? Attack a celebrity actor for performing a role that doesn't match their race / sexuality. 2. Media companies in desperate need of 24 hour content to push out, write up the pressure group attack on the celebrity actor and call it a news story. 3. Minor actors in need of a social media following to stay relevant support the pressure groups. 4. Bill gets angry.
There’s 8 billion people- you have no idea what the fuch people are saying. You’re just jock ridding for someone who agrees with YOU. Just stop with the pointless jargon
I actually kind of feel the opposite. I used to like BM. But now he kinda waivers all over and his show feels like it's degraded into what's annoying him that day. After his new rules lately, I usually just say....who cares?
I like your points. I don’t think certain individuals on the left go for this shit at all thought. There rhetoric leaves them in a hollow shell only with other virtues signalers.
@@nicolausharvot3825 I agree with you in general. Problem is to me that guys like BM spend 15 minutes complaining about stuff they could just as easily ignore. Then they attach this to "the left" when I don't think anyone really cares that much. I dunno. I hear a lot about what people don't like but not much about how to deal with it and that bugs me no matter your "side". Appreciate you sharing your thoughts
What exactly is left vs right .I'm asking because they both flip flop just like humans constantly bending over backwards for some stupid tribe .It's all the same .I'm not even arguing its just so ...never mind.
I loved this segment. I think it's important to flip the situation, as Bill did a couple of times, e.g. Ana de Armas as Marilyn. Another good example is Neil Patrick Harris, a gay man who nailed the role of Barney, an aggressively heterosexual man, in "How I Met Your Mother". Gay people are not underrepresented in Hollywood productions, yet he was "allowed" to take a role from a straight actor? Oh right, no one objected. Nor should they have. It's obscene what's going on with this woke bullshit, and it has to stop. Producers, directors, and actors have to grow a pair and respond "Fuck you" (or similar) when this issue is raised, not go on an apology tour.
Bill hits it on the head but ISIS-beheading video captive Tom Hanks announcing it's moral "progress" is somehow the cringiest bit. As though there's been some great intellectual breakthrough.
I recently took a trip (from the Midwest) to Seattle. It's definitely not only on Twitter This has become the new version of "keeping up with the Jones'"
Well, when you're living in a drug filled delusion of grandeur and narcissism, I'd imagine that telling the difference between reality and the echo chamber that you're always lurking in can be pretty.....hard to do, lol
@@BasementPepperoni who’s living in a drug fueled delusion ? I work 16 hour shifts and watch Bill Maher clips on RUclips sometimes. Most people I know do not go on Twitter. The opposite of the woke mob is the Maga crowd. Both are being fed lies by people who make money from doing so.
@@queenc2144 Also, you're right, there is also the "Maga Crowd", who have a some people who are nut jobs. There's always 2 sides to every coin. Except, in this particular case of "extremism" and "BLATANT lies and "hypocrisy", anyone with a conscience or morals can see which group of people is an ACTUAL threat and has been for YEARS now. Then there's the other side of nut jobs, who are lifted up on a pedestal and used for a multi year political stunt. Sure don't remember the last time I had to worry about being attacked/assaulted/or worse by some "DRUMPF Supporter" anytime there's a "mostly peaceful protest" going on somewhere that I happen to be that day. Oh, then having it being completely covered up and swept under the rug afterwards, and literally ANYONE who talks about it is called an "Istaphobazi"? No, fuuuuuck that shit. Yea, the right sure can be crazy, but at least I dont have to worry about my town being burned down, and anyone I know dying because of their fascist Cult mentality.
But there's some of us out here in fly-over country that see Bill as several years behind us. He's now saying what we were ridiculed for saying, sometimes even by himself, before he came to his senses. Does that count for anything on our behalf? Of course not. We're still just the evil Trump supporters, or backward stubborn "racists" for refusing to accept the newest BS from the pervert crowd that can't afford to stay as whatever they were last year, forever discovering newer "woker" territory that soon enough becomes the next laughing stock, or tragedy, like the kids getting sex hormones and surgery because they're still at the age where their imagination outperforms their common sense, while the adults doing it to them will witness their profound sorrow in the years to come.... and many already are.
Elon Musk was right - "Wokeness" is a mind virus. They're going absolutely insane with all of this. It's happening in fiction writing too - you can't write characters of other races without a "sensitivity reader" now. Where does it end?
As an Italian Plumber, I’m truly happy John Liguizamo is finally being called out for his affront to my people. Now excuse me while I warp down a pipe, I have to kick a turtle in the face.
Bill you are on a roll. You are doing a great job with lessons on common sense and funny doing it. Keep up the good work. You even have your studio audience clapping and laughing. It gives me hope that the whole country is not going nuts.
"You even have your studio audience clapping and laughing." Have you not watched this show before? That's what they're paid to do. BTW you left out whooping.
I'm no longer going to watch apollo 13 because I can no longer stomach the idea of watching a movie about astronauts where the people in the movie are not astronauts.
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing, selling the gospel in any way, collecting money for ministering in any way whatsoever, anyone teaching same sex marriage is a sin when it is NOT, rich people, unrepentant rapists, lying police people, corrupt judges, and all other unrepentant evil people will be in the GREAT TRIBULATIONS - begins September 1 of this year! That includes anyone listing cashapp links and other bank account links on their youtube channel or asking for donations. Lev. was translated wrong billy graham. Refering to pedophilia. "Men shall not molest young boys." Delete or reject the messages sent from the messenger of Malachi 3:1 and you reject Jesus Christ Herself and choose to die with the wicked. Malachi 2 proves Malachi 3:8 is prophetic instruction for the thieving church leaders to bring back the money they were never supposed to take for ministering and God will end Covid. Every major church around the world knew this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much they chose to kill everyone with Covid instead of returning it! James 5:2 Rich people are NOT Christians and the wealth they selfishly kept to themselves will only be used as evidence to burn them. The 2 witnesses are righteousness and judgement, not actual people. There is no ONE antichrist; it was made up by people that worship money. Stay out of the fake churches or you will die with them and their lies. In order to be a church, the place must house people inside it. Otherwise it's another private money-making business serving satan and part of Babylon. There is no such thing as rapture. Jesus comes back to rule. God's people are caught up spiritually... Romans is not referring to Eunuchs where one partner is transgender. Mathew 19:12 🏳️🌈 Eunuchs that are born that way are transgender. It's even in the Bible. Yes, the bible was written by bigoted men and is way outdated and was changed and should be thrown out. But even Jesus spoke about transgender people. Eunuchs made that way by others were abused (it doesn't happen to everyone that is abused). Those that choose to live like Eunuchs FOR THE SAKE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN are bisexual people that choose partners of the same sex characteristics but opposite in regards to gender. Notice, God PREFERS for people to be in LGBT relationships. Eunuchs are same sex couples. One partner is transgender. Transgender is when someone is born with a gender opposite the sex characteristics normally associated with that gender. God made us male or female, determined by gender, located in the brain. Your gender is located in your brain and determined at birth. I have an identical twin sister that is female in gender. I am male in gender. I am Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and that means any discrepancies in the bible are ultimately decided by me. Plus, it states in Deuteronomy that nobody was castrated back then. And that doesn't make sense anyhow. No one is born castrated and no one is born making the decision to be celibate. But, that is what God wanted the lying preachers to think so they wouldn't take it out of the bible. Intersex people still have one gender or another because gender is located in your brain. And Acts 3:22-23 says it will come to pass that anyone that fails to listen to me will be utterly destroyed from among the people. So anyone that says different than this won't be here much longer. It's everyone's choice. Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing or getting paid in any way to minister will also die with the wicked. Peter 2:9 says we are ALL ministers . . . . Jesus was transgender and will return as a woman..... Remember, Malachi 3:8-12 is talking to the thieving church leaders. It's the answer to end Covid and every major church around the world has known this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much, they INTENTIONALLY CHOSE to kill everyone instead of returning it. My preaching will lead to a universal monthly income for everyone. If church leaders dont repent, they won't be here to see it. Their choice . . . .. .. ...
Bill has always been good at pointing out the nonsensical. The fact that you previously disagreed with him simply means that you've drunk the crazy kool-aid from the other side. Now that the left are going full blown loony toons, he's calling them out more (and nutjob Republicans think he's changed). He hasn't changed. The idiocy he's previously called out from the right is just as idiotic as the idiocy he's currently calling out from the left.
You know it's bad when an old-time "Yellow Dog" Democrat like Bill Maher throws his hands up and says "Enough!" Sooner or later everyone has a breaking point.
Andy Garcia played an Italian in The Untouchables and Cliff Curtis played a Mexican in Training Day. I never complained when I found out that they didn't share the same backgrounds as their characters. I'm not a casting director, but in my opinion, when you are looking for the best actor for a role, all that matters is that they look the part and play it well.
As long as they do try to "look the part". The problem with black actors portraying white HISTORICAL characters is that people are then determined that person was black.
Lucious Skywalker-because Bill wasn’t always like this. For a long time he was a smug liberal. He can get like that sometimes still, but he’s not afraid now to call out this bullshit, on BOTH sides of the political aisle.
@@bford5899 I work in the industry and I'm certainly not on the right but this woke shit has gone way too far. Talented people in all the trades struggle to get work while hacks with no talent are hired because their transgender or non-binary.
An actor by definition is someone whose profession is pretending to be someone else, not just be him/herself. Good acting is when the actor does it convincingly.
This popping up could not have been timelier. My 12-year-old just got turned down for the role of Medda in a community theater group because her Hispanic skin was not dark enough. She "blew them away" and was "phenomenal", but they couldn't give her the role that she earned and worked her butt off for. I don't blame the theater; I blame those that complained before about another show and ruined it for her.
You bring up a perfect point. Giving a role to someone purely based on ethnicity is pure discrimination. Funny the one thing they “claim” to fight against. The woke today are in essence the magicians of our time. Everything done is done with a slight of hand. We’re the party of acceptance, while we accept nothing of the other party. Straight up mind bending!
This is spot on!! I am for the most part liberal but I am so tired of "woke-ism" and the fear of insulting anyone! That reduces us to a "lowest common denominator" society, don't say anything because there's somebody out there that might feel bad... 🤔
If a Black Actress plays a role as The Little Mermaid, then Conservatives will cry about "forced diversity" just because the actress is a minority. And if a White Actress plays a role as Pocahontas, then Liberals will cry about "ethnic appropriation", so the truth of the matter is that there is extremism on both sides of the political spectrum regarding this topic; the Far Right have their own version of ultra wokeness-- xenophobia is just the other side of the same coin. My personal viewpoint is that actors should be able to play any role that they can get.
Exactly why I've been anti- political correctness for decades. It doesn't matter what you say, someone, somewhere is going to be offended. There is a reason for the saying "you can't please everyone all of the time."
As a straight hairstylist 42 years I'm convinced the gay men and women I proudly worked with all those years are absolutely appalled at all the negative attention coming their way . They worked very hard to be accepted for who they are and were successful in that effort. Now, their movement has been highjacked by crazies.
@Tracy Comstock Tracy your comment in no way connects to the one you're replying too. It just shows how simple-minded you are. I feel sorry for you and your family.
I'm deeply grateful for this brilliant offering!! This concern goes beyond Acting!! It relates to writers of fiction, non- fiction, what clothes and accessories we wear, what dances we dance and songs we sing!! Our imaginations allow us to travel beyond ourselves!! Bravo Bill!! Thank you!! Empathically yours, Judit from Montreal.
That, in fact, is the PURPOSE of art. Not to reflect back our egotistical wishes and limitations but to challenge us to identify, as Percy Shelley says, with "the beautiful that exists in thought, action, or person NOT OUR OWN."
Nailed it, again! "“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” - Milton Friedman.
I have a hard time laughing at this. It's like it's not a joke anymore. It's too true to be funny. I'm just happy he still has the courage to open his mouth about it.
Bill’s been sayin this shit for so long now, one of the few things he holds steady on. He tows the shit-lib party line in many ways but he kills the trivial nonsense on this one. It’s such a case of a dog with his tale between his legs how these actors relent on their roles after the fact. They don’t actually believe this PR drivel, they’re just telling the piss-ant plebs what they wanna hear
As a black woman I understand everything you're saying. And even though he's late to the table it still has to be said. A professor once told me repetition is the essence of learning.
@@joemartinez331 please lighten up like you said it's acting people transform themselves all the time. Look at any Murphy in coming to America he played the hell out of an old Jewish man special effects makeup. No I do understand some historical figures need to be portrayed in some real likeness. That makes sense in the context of the story. But most of this in the acting world is made up to make believe.
Thank you for constantly reminding people what actual liberalism is Bill. Wokeness is not liberalism. It's a form of marxism that substitutes identity for economic class.
It substitute identity for economic classes, which means it's not marxism at all. It only steal speech elements from it. If it was actual marxism, it would not be supported by all of hollywood, most medias, most instituions, the majority of politician, most NGO, banks and credit card companies.
The only problem is that if you're on team blue those are the very people you're supporting with your votes, the woke. Who do you think is running this country into the ground right now? I consider the 'woke' to be domestic enemies. Period.
I don't think anyone agrees with everything that comes out his mouth, he's diverse in his viewpoints and that's why I like him. He's upset me before, but I still watch every episode because I respect his ability to speak his mind right or wrong. There isn't a lot of that on television.
We may not always like what he says but one thing that cannot be argued is that he does not prejudge situations or people. Rather than spouting inane comments like others in the media and government (you know who), he applies logic to come up with a sound rationale for his standpoint which is genuinely rare these days, especially in Washington. While it would never happen, its too bad we cannot get Bill to consider exchanging his seat at the HBO studio desk for a seat at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
Bill Maher is REMARKABLY full of shit here. If a LATINO actor like Oscar Isaac was casted as a say George Washington, Bill would be on the Daily Wire TOMORROW bitching that it was "woke" garbage while he and Ben Shapiro Blew each other for 20 minutes. You mentioned all The Times John loguizamo has played a non Latino character. Do you know why? It is because the further back you go the harder it was for John lequizamo - or any Latino actor - to play positive *Latino rolls or any Latino rolls at all. And THIS is why John leguzamo is saying what he saying. Latinos have a very hard time to this day finding positive roles, the least we could fucking do is ask for Hollywood tor Hollywood to stop giving our roles to white actors that have enough work.
Being a proud Brit, one of my favourite books is the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy series. In the Books & BBC TV series, Ford Prefect was portrayed/played as a white man with an English accent. In the film, Mos Def plays him. They were both fantastic, because 2 great actors defined the character in their own ways.
If a straight actor can't play a gay man, does that mean a gay actor can't be cast as a straight man? Such foolishness. Thanks Bill for calling it out.
To them, it is appropriation only if it involves white actors. Anne Boleyn was recently portrayed by a black woman, even though she is historically ginger. But, if you protest against that and call it blackwashing, they will call you a racist. Both whitewashing and blackwashing are bad, but not to them: for them the former is an unforgivable sin and the latter is recommended in the name of diversity.
Actually neither of them could possibly matter less. It’s actors playing a role pretending to be someone they aren’t. Who gives a fuck who they actually are??
@@hhiippiittyy Fun fact: there are far less ginger people in the world than there are black people. So, if a black person portrays an originally ginger character, this actually destroys diversity.
I hate the term cultural appropriation. This separates us as humans. We should share each other's culture. We shouldn't mock or demean them, but share and celebrate them. Screw the ideas of the far left and far right. Stay in tbe middle.
save our country? He's the guy that wanted a recession because he had Trump derangement syndrome frim fake news. He's the most rational person that reads fake news. That's who he is. He's always years behind the times. Everything he says he should've said 5 years ago.
Dude saving the country 😆you think pointing this out,people going too far is “saving the country” People starving dying all over unnecessarily and what you care about if stopping woke people You anti woke people are just as bad a d the super woke people Bill should stop using this “I found another thing people have gone too far and I can use the word “woke” in the joke” Because he is showing he has no real material or at least enough these “woke too far” skits are just easy and lazy and Bill is actually ruining comedy by still using it over and over
Thanks Bill for being the only person with a large platform to have the balls to keep it real by reminding people what it means to be progressive!
That's odd because republicans have been anti-woke since day one. Billy is jumping on the train 2 years later and gets applauded as courageous 🤣
i am not really up on what 'progressive' means but i dont find bill maher to be progressive
This has nothing to do with courage. It has everything to do with fear of his audience leaving him.He is in show biz and so are the casting directors. Casting directors choices are based on what brings in the biggest audience. Maher's monologues are also written with this in mind. Its all about money.
@@peterstafford4426 exactly. I was thinking the very same thing.
He sees the Winds of politics changing. The progressive left are no longer as popular as they were, he knows that and is switching the messages in his monologues to appeal to the new demographics.
Funny, when an overwhelming majority of people who complain about cultural appropriation are self-proclaimed progressives
“ This is regression” …. nailed it!! Bravo!! This absolutely needed to be said!!
Bill dumbed down a nuanced topic out pique and mean-spiritedness, so he contributed to the regression.
@@andrewedris2800 You expected a dissertation to satisfy your sense of outrage from a comedian so you attack him??
Where is the in that?
Nuance … typo!
@@mikelundrigan2285 Is English your 2nd language. Your English is excellent! Where did you learn English?😂
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characterized by subtle shades of meaning or expression.
@@andrewedris2800 Thanks! English is my first and only language! Wish I knew others….never a disadvantage, imo!
As a non actor, I find it very offensive when actors play non actors. It's truly the worst form of appropriation. Those roles should be reserved exclusively for us, as non actors are severely under represented in pop culture as a whole, and especially in movies and series. SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
As an actor- we don’t really care
And obviously nobody gives a s***
You're probably left it and gay
@@LevonAllen13 Don’t you mean as an anchor, you don’t really think Mr. Burgundy?
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Don't even get me started about Earthlings playing Kryptonians and Vulcans! Krypton Face!!
This show is a beacon of reason and sanity. Thanks to you Bill and to your entire team!
This was Maher's greatest - remember this? ruclips.net/video/-vYVDPbL_EA/видео.html
I love Bill❤
@Bimon Soliver - Sometimes it is.
I agree, but please, don’t cast anyone but an Australian to play an Australian. Everyone else butchers the Aussie accent.
You need to expand your knowledge if you think Hollywood is the beacon of reason and sanity. This is a Hollywood problem not an America problem. Hollywood is not progressive nor the standard for progressives. Hollywood is a corporation that sells entertainment, but for some reason some among them decided to preach as if they are prophets. Ego and fame gone to their heads. They are not prophets, they are not progressive, just entitled rich tax cheats who need to shut up and act. And Bill Maher is one of them. You are a comedian Bill. Make jokes, and leave it at that because your understanding of real society is is your biggest joke.
It's also triggering that the bad guys in movies are not portrayed by actual criminals
Thats why the left wants all the prisoners released here, and all the prisoners from 150 other countries. To act.
Clever!
Some are actual criminals. Including the actors who play the heroes. Case in point, Armie Hammer… for one…
Well, there was George Raft.
Hunter has a new career l.
Thank you for calling out Leguizamo for lashing out and exposing hypocrisy.
He is always fos
I really love Johnny Legs, but Bill was right
Bill is absolutely right.
@@raphtube75 who is the actress pictured in dock ?
Love this guy for 2 reasons:
1. He makes me laugh
2. Even when I don't agree with him, I almost always have to admit that he's making a good point
Totally agree.
REGRESSiON is the answer! of COURSE! why didn't i think of that? bring on the sparklers and the drag queen story hour!
He uses logic and humorous hyperbole to point out the obvious rational truth as he sees it. Nobody has to agree with his entire truth, but more people should be like that in the news and politics.
Using logic that is, instead of tapping into peoples primal emotional centers, which is very manipulative… Oh, wait now I know why.
That’s what political debate should be.
I don't always appreciate his humor, but, he always does his take downs of people l admire with humour. There's nothing wrong in that, it's funny.
Bill is about the only well-known commentator whose political and social platform is simply "we should be doing what makes sense and not doing what doesn't", and I appreciate him for that.
actually you are describing quite a few conservative platforms, and no not trumpers conservatives. Marc Dice, Black conservative perspective, and Officer Tatum.
I'll stick to doing whatever I feel like not what this garbage tells you.
@@raymondlassor7155 no way that is correct. Conservative outlets present a very biased and extreme view. They present one side of a divisive culture war. This subject is pretty nonpartisan. It's a small slice of Americans that are outspoken against actors playing which roles. Most Dems and Repubs don't make that an issue. Filmmakers are just scared of that outspoken Twitter crowd because when even just 1,000 people make a huge deal it gets picked up by all news sources, right and left, because it gets the clicks and that negative attention is unwanted by them. Not a single Democrat I know cares about who plays what role. Conservative media actually makes it a bigger issue than the left does because criticizing Hollywood is central to their politics.
@@OliverandHisDad have you seen the clips Mark Dice does about the actors not playing politically correct roles for them? Or the ones that have ben Shapiro talks about how ridiculous it is? All the ones were also Tatum's talking about that? Or all the other numerous conservative people discussing how ridiculous this cancel cultures getting? Or the lady that was canceled by Disney from that Star wars spinoff that Ben Shapiro hired for her new TV series? But I guess I could be wrong I think her name was Gina something. So I suppose it's the conservatives after all. I guess next you'll say biden's the greatest president ever and Trump had terrible results, right?
What makes sense to him. In this case, I agree with him.
As a gay man, I’m glad that Tom played Andrew Beckett. For a straight man to play a gay man in the early 90s had a lot of stigma to it, but to play a gay man with AIDS…that took guts. Tom was able to bring that character to life, and portray the crucial problem of rampant discrimination against both during that time, irrespective of his actual personal life.
And if the movie was made now we could get Lee Pace or any number of actual gay men to play the part. That’s what Bill doesn’t get. It helped us get one of our stories told but now we don’t need straight people pretending to be us on screen.
@Steffi Haas Yes. It was totally relevant and if you don’t get that you’re a clueless idiot.
@Steffi Haas “the likes of us” needed to feel special to counteract what hundreds of years of being told were wrong and disgusting. It’s not a vanity thing. Its righting a wrong in the hopes that people like us stop suffering silently or committing suicide because Christian society tells us we shouldn’t be this way.
@Steffi Haas You missed the point in both cases and contradicted yourself in the process proving you are that perfect idiot.
@@19031589 honest question: would gay people then only play gay characters? Because then we would miss out on Andrew Scott as the hot priest, Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton, and Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, just to name a few. I want to see more of those actors, not less, but that’s exactly what would happen if they were only to play gay characters from now on.
It's always a joy when someone with a huge audience presents the same thoughts and sentiments I rant about within my four walls! Seriously, it gives me some hope that all is/are not lost. Thanks!
you mean about half of what he says. He is very popular with right wingers because this is the ONLY place you can get anything CLOSE to be funny and bagging on the dems. I think most of his audience are right wingers. They LOVE it. They just ignore the other part of his ideals
@@markfrost2707 I'm not bothered by who may or may not agree with what's expressed in this clip. At this point it's enough to know that one presenter - and/or presumably a crew of writers - are able to see factual sense, even if it's only ocassionally.
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audience are right wingers? you mean sane people.
@@markfrost2707 his audience _is_ right wing by definition, if you use the newspeak definition of "right wing".
@@nefaristo Oh Yes because Right Wingers totally buy Bill Maher tickets pffft
Thank you Bill for being so honest we need this to keep our sanity in this crazy world..
You know things are getting weird when a conservative Christian feels like Bill Maher is in their corner. Keep it up, Bill!
Steadily well over a decade in time.
It was always there growing in university’s. But yes a agree with you, it’s certainly escalating
It's even weirder when Christian right-wingers like me would rather watch Bill Maher than Fox News. I love how anti-corporate Maher is. I'd much prefer this to pandering on either side
Bill Maher is just a right winger. He's a Zionist islamaphobe and out of touch neoliberal elitist democrat shill.
@@sivad1025 there's nothing anti-corporate about being a partisan democrat like Bill. I've never heard critique Joe Brandon b4.
This is one of the best real time you've ever made. I think the problem is the stronger someone believes in something, the less reasonable they become when it doesn't have to be like that. This segment makes so much sense to me.
Why does everyone play Nazis when there are so many germans!?
Even as a conservatives, I agree. This is one of the best monologues I've seen all my life.
Thanks Bill for having the guts to say it all, loud and clear. We want art. Not politics.
Bill Maher pulled a red herring with this piece. Bill Maher spoke as a man truly clueless of the history of Hollywood.
White actors have received nearly every role in the history of Hollywood. Even roles as characters that were not white! Hollywood is a white dominated industry. If a non-white actors gets a role it's nearly always a stereotypical role, while white actors get to play "diverse" roles? White actors get to play the hero, but black actors get to play an angry black person roles? A white actor gets to play a kung fu master, but an asian actor plays a socially inept nerd?
Also for a longtime white Hollywood passed up non-white actors for non-white roles! Bruce Lee got past up for the show Kung Fu because he was "Too Asian"? Desi Arnez argued with white producers, who thought Desi Arnez as too Cuban to be a husband in an multiethnic marriage for "I Love Lucy"?
Ellen DeGeneres' show was cancelled in 1998 after coming out as gay? But straight actors can play gay characters and receive little to no consequences?
Bill Maher should've thought harder! Hollywood has always played politics!
Aaaaaamennnnnn
@@freeform7012 Hollywood is in the USA, the USA has always been a majority "white" country. Should we protest Bollywood for their lack of white representation?
Christ, did you ever miss the point! 🙄
@@shinobi-no-bueno India doesn't have the same history of racism, oppression, and suppression like the U. S. A.
Thank you for this refreshing and frank perspective. I wish others would listen and take this common sense to heart. I have no interest in going to movies anymore. They’ll just keep wondering why movies are failing. 🤷♀️🤦♀️.
Exactly. Boycott Hollywood, don't give them a single cent for the degeneracy they've come to produce.
I don't always agree with Bill, but when I do it's usually stuff like this where, apart from many of our leaders and elites apparently, everyone with a brain can clearly see it's wrong. In fact, I'm pretty sure people like Hanks know it too, he's just not brave enough or too money hungry to stand up to the bullies.
They'll blame it on racism. 🙄
One of Rock Hudson's first roles was as an indian in Winchester '73. It was a GOOD if short role.
This reminds me of a story about Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman in the the movie, The Marathon Man. In order to portray his character being up all night running for a scene, Dustin Hoffman did exactly that, stayed up all night running around the city. The morning they were shooting it, he was all proud of having done that and told Sir Laurence because he wanted to impress his idol. Sir Laurence just looked at him and said, "You're an actor, why waste your sleep when all you have to do is act?"
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Your analogy is kinda relevant to this discussion....two different schools of acting. Hoffman is a Method actor while Sir Olivier was not!
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing, selling the gospel in any way, collecting money for ministering in any way whatsoever, anyone teaching same sex marriage is a sin when it is NOT, rich people, unrepentant rapists, lying police people, corrupt judges, and all other unrepentant evil people will be in the GREAT TRIBULATIONS - begins September 1 of this year! That includes anyone listing cashapp links and other bank account links on their youtube channel or asking for donations.
Lev. was translated wrong billy graham. Refering to pedophilia. "Men shall not molest young boys."
Delete or reject the messages sent from the messenger of Malachi 3:1 and you reject Jesus Christ Herself and choose to die with the wicked.
Malachi 2 proves Malachi 3:8 is prophetic instruction for the thieving church leaders to bring back the money they were never supposed to take for ministering and God will end Covid. Every major church around the world knew this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much they chose to kill everyone with Covid instead of returning it!
James 5:2 Rich people are NOT Christians and the wealth they selfishly kept to themselves will only be used as evidence to burn them.
The 2 witnesses are righteousness and judgement, not actual people. There is no ONE antichrist; it was made up by people that worship money.
Stay out of the fake churches or you will die with them and their lies. In order to be a church, the place must house people inside it. Otherwise it's another private money-making business serving satan and part of Babylon.
There is no such thing as rapture. Jesus comes back to rule. God's people are caught up spiritually...
Romans is not referring to Eunuchs where one partner is transgender.
Mathew 19:12
🏳️🌈 Eunuchs that are born that way are transgender. It's even in the Bible. Yes, the bible was written by bigoted men and is way outdated and was changed and should be thrown out. But even Jesus spoke about transgender people. Eunuchs made that way by others were abused (it doesn't happen to everyone that is abused). Those that choose to live like Eunuchs FOR THE SAKE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN are bisexual people that choose partners of the same sex characteristics but opposite in regards to gender. Notice, God PREFERS for people to be in LGBT relationships.
Eunuchs are same sex couples. One partner is transgender. Transgender is when someone is born with a gender opposite the sex characteristics normally associated with that gender. God made us male or female, determined by gender, located in the brain.
Your gender is located in your brain and determined at birth. I have an identical twin sister that is female in gender. I am male in gender.
I am Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and that means any discrepancies in the bible are ultimately decided by me. Plus, it states in Deuteronomy that nobody was castrated back then. And that doesn't make sense anyhow. No one is born castrated and no one is born making the decision to be celibate. But, that is what God wanted the lying preachers to think so they wouldn't take it out of the bible. Intersex people still have one gender or another because gender is located in your brain.
And Acts 3:22-23 says it will come to pass that anyone that fails to listen to me will be utterly destroyed from among the people. So anyone that says different than this won't be here much longer. It's everyone's choice.
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing or getting paid in any way to minister will also die with the wicked.
Peter 2:9 says we are ALL ministers . . . .
Jesus was transgender and will return as a woman.....
Remember, Malachi 3:8-12 is talking to the thieving church leaders. It's the answer to end Covid and every major church around the world has known this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much, they INTENTIONALLY CHOSE to kill everyone instead of returning it. My preaching will lead to a universal monthly income for everyone. If church leaders dont repent, they won't be here to see it. Their choice . . . .. ..
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I think he said "my body, why dont you try acting?"
i guess Hoffman goes the extra mile
Maher and his writers get an 11/10 for this segment! Laden with pertinent examples, quotes and Bill’s fearless but humorous critique of this tragic social malaise.
His writers ripped me off 14 years ago.
@@uverpro3598 oh poor you...
@@emillyyelen5169 Yes, it was a real injustice. Why you find that worthy of condescension, I have no idea.
@@uverpro3598 I had a Daily Show writer, who followed me on Twitter, put one of my jokes in Trevor's mouth less than 48 hour later.
I asked him if I could get credit and he blocked me. So I forwarded my tweet to the daily show and emailed them. never heard anything.
Wonder if that "Writer" still works there?
Sadly most of those voicing this out was deemed 'far right' and were cast of out of mainstream media years ago. So, do applaud Bill for raising most of the anti-woke bits, but he's no way a pioneer nor brave
When Morgan Freeman was cast as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption, it wasn't because he was black but because he was the best actor for that role & had the perfect voice to help tell the story. Originally, the character of Red was Irish & got his name because of his red hair.
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'... your hair red, cuz BLIMEY STARS AND GREEN CLOVERS, LEAVE ME POT OF GOLD BE, HOY CHEE CHOY CHEE CHOY, AM I IRISH ENOUGH FOR YE, TWITTER???" -- Morgan Freeman
He was not playing an Irish person. He was playing a black man. Are you high? He wasn’t speaking like an Irish man. You need to stop with you bs. Fidel Castro is a non white person. They could find a non white person to play him.
And now you can't picture anyone else playing the character but him.
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Damn, I'd forgotten that tid bit, a perfect example for calling out this kinda absurdity!
Can't wait for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar biopic starring Peter Dinklage 😂
Now that's a stretch.
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Lmao. That's so absurd I actually want to see it 😂
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Thanks for speaking 100% what most of us are thinking. All should have the given right to audition if they fit the profile and criteria, but the role should go to the best actor for the job.
On point!
Bill Maher is absolutely on fire lately. With all of the motivation of Dr. Frankenstein trying to destroy his own creation.
Like you, Charles, I believe in meritocracy.
Bill is absolutely correct. When outside forces, especially politics, controls art and the creation of it, art becomes contaminated and winds up either propaganda or garbage.
Eve if grant you this stupid point, bill is still wrong because he's acting like this started in the "woke era" when it has always been this way, it just benefited white people so it wasn't a problem to him.
A proof would be apply bills arguments 100 years ago to birth of a nation, he's saying its ok to do black face because there are no "good" black actors l, I wonder if slavery and not being allowrd to read and write played a part in that.
I left the left because of creeping wokeness
Art can't please everyone. It was never meant to please everyone.
More gay people have played straight characters in the history of Hollywood. This is a fact. Are we going to dump all movies with Rock Hudson, Anthony Perkins, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, and Cesar Romero...just to name just a few?
Bill Maher is completely missing the point here. The point is not about certain people appropriating certain roles. It's about white actors/actresses are able to get all the roles they do not represent, whether it is as native americans, arabians, asians, aliens, tibetans, egyptians, hawaiians or people with scissor-shaped hands. Guess how diversified the roles Asian-looking actors could actually have in an American film? In Hollywood, people who look like an Indian (from India) can only play Indians who speak English with an accent. A Chinese-looking man could only play East Asian roles and that's pretty much the sum of his career oppotunity. An industry that allows a white women to portray a Hawaiian in a country that has a million of REAL Hawaiians is committing not only cultural appropriation but also a disturbing case of racial discrimination.
When Hollywood hires people for leading roles they’d hire mainly white actors from across the globe - from uk to Australia to South Africa, Ireland, Canada and Europe. It does seem that Hollywood is not just an American industry but essentially a “white” industry that is committed to storytelling from “the white perspective”. If you are white you get the role, it doesn’t matter if you ‘re not even an American. That, for me, is disconcerting. Some influential directors, like Ridley Scott, are unabashedly “old school” he just refuses to tell a story unless it’s through white actors. He recruited an Australian man to play the pharaoh in Exodus and a white English boy to play a jewish child-god. His latest film Alien Covenant depicts a major space expedition in a hundred years time but there is just one non-white “token” black actor in the whole crew. It’s not even realistic, it’s almost embarrassing. Of course, the future of space expedition should be told once again from the white angle alone.
Comedy is getting easier when everything is a joke and this was all so accurate it's hilarious
Comedy is getting harder. It’s dying because of shitlibs.
Brilliant !
A Must See !
Maher As " The Last Homo-Sapien ! "
You'l Laugh Until You Cry
Srsly
Shouldn't the real issue be that James Franco is a perverted weirdo who shouldn't be making films anymore?
@@solarnaut Another must see; Maher's BEST INTERVIEW here; ruclips.net/video/-vYVDPbL_EA/видео.html
Brilliant, Bill. You and Ricky Gervais seem to be the only guys with any stones to call out this nonsense. It would have been awesome if Tom Hanks called out this absurdity as well, but apparently he's too afraid of getting cancelled. Same with Eddie Redmayne.
Thanks for continuing to call out the hypocrites and for your help in the preservation of common sense 👍
Thank you, Bill, for being the voice of reason in a truly messed up industry.
He's a little late to the party and so are the rest of his fans.
He's late..this revolution start years back
sad, he may be to late, Network TV in the dumps, Movie ticket sales vanishing, award shows for the best, LOL nobody cares.
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This is Boomer comedy
As a strong liberal that values the environment, inclusion, and the woman’s right to choose, the woke part of liberalism is leaving me behind. Thank you Bill for everything you do. Both parties are being split by extremists.
Woke means an awareness of social or racial injustice.
Right wing spin doctors have successfully redefined all liberal terminology (Antifa, CRT police reformation) into negative connotations. It doesn’t help when hosts like Maher buy into their false narratives.
Woke does not mean political correctness run amuck, which is what Americans really mean to say if they weren’t so dominantly influenced by Conservative propagandists.
Liberals have values?
@@gigglesnschitt2812 Wokism is a mental illness, and you're a part of it.
@@gigglesnschitt2812 No but woke look for and see racism in everything and everywhere to the point of ridiculous. Maher is 100% right
Woke means marxism.
"To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar."
I'll just leave that here about John Leguizamo's statement.
Yep. I was surprised that wasn’t on the list
As an actor, I couldn’t get more behind this. I agree 100%. People need to let actors be actors as we should let comedians be comedians. If you don’t do that, it’s a complete disservice to art and blinds us from seeing the best actor/actress for the role and impeccable talent on screen.
So Franco is the best actor for the role ? Get outta here. Franco is a shitty over actor. Btw, love your narrative of the best person for the role… very typical of 90s white men complaining about non-whites getting a job at their level…all you need to include is affirmative action and you’ll be set.
I couldn't agree more!👍 I've missed out on several roles recently because of Politically Correct box tickers.
I've been always saying it. I have been wanting to do acting and directing and I rather it'd be by merit not by race etc as the "I'm so offended" crowd has done. This whole "we want inclusion but we want people to stay in their own lane" deal is so stupid.
It's not about appropriation or identity It's all about pushing out straight white males from hollywood.
@@sdfilmproductions4193 And it's been that way for a while...
It's all coming to a point... Reasonable people have just about had enough with this BS. Can you feel it in the air around you?
Absolutely. This is getting too fucking stupid.
100% The red pill is starting to kick in. Finally.
Bill Maher voted for the guy who used his last 4 years to finish the “fundamental change” of the arts, media, and entertainment sector that led us down this path 🤷🏽
There isn’t a corner of the sectors where one can go to just get a compartmentalized experience like it once was; which was people- generally- joined by their particular practical contributions to a project or program with no regard for politics or social preference.
One can only hope you’re right that people are turning away. I feel like it’s losing a bit of steam amongst my friends who are Woke. A bunch of them are beginning to question it and I’m like finally.
Too little too late. The damage is done. These Frankfurt School Proselytes targeted our children years ago. Now they're just waiting for those who disagree to die out.
Bill M is funny, but he gave up any credibility or respect. He enables it. He supports the very people who have led this disastrous philosophy, and doesn't have the courage to do anything but talk about it. Hes just banking on the people fighting against it so he can line his pockets.
As always Bill is so on point and calls out all the bullshit, thank you for that
Exactly what I think
Yet he supports those that have put this in place. He's adding BS to the pile, and then whining about it.
@@RichardChappell1 doesn’t disprove op’s comment
He literally just started being a normal person. So I give him credit for changing but he still rode the wave for a long time.
So a white guy can play Obama ?
The Johnny Depp pirate part and Mel Gibson part killed me 😂🤣😂 love how Bill Maher keeps it down to earth. He can be a bit smug and a little biased sometimes but man, does he hit the bull's-eye!! Love hearing his take on current events
Well said!
Another spot-on bit. I'm glad to see Bill continuing to use his platform to speak obvious truths that for some non-obvious reason nobody else seems willing to say aloud.
It’s these stars that can afford to turn down a role that can afford to virtue signal.
Bill is awesome, unless it effects him. Then it's wrong no matter what.
He's right that it's stupid, but it's a kind of a waste of a New Rules segment.
1. Race / sexuality pressure groups need publicity to maintain their funding streams. How do they do that? Attack a celebrity actor for performing a role that doesn't match their race / sexuality.
2. Media companies in desperate need of 24 hour content to push out, write up the pressure group attack on the celebrity actor and call it a news story.
3. Minor actors in need of a social media following to stay relevant support the pressure groups.
4. Bill gets angry.
Do you agree with race swapping in movies?
There’s 8 billion people- you have no idea what the fuch people are saying. You’re just jock ridding for someone who agrees with YOU. Just stop with the pointless jargon
Bill has been hitting it out of the park lately. These are subjects we can ALL agree with, left or right. Keep fighting the good fight.
+Matt Well, no. The right hates everyone in Hollywood except Dean Kane, Kevin Sorbo, Kristi Swanson, and Kirsti Alley.
I actually kind of feel the opposite. I used to like BM. But now he kinda waivers all over and his show feels like it's degraded into what's annoying him that day. After his new rules lately, I usually just say....who cares?
I like your points. I don’t think certain individuals on the left go for this shit at all thought. There rhetoric leaves them in a hollow shell only with other virtues signalers.
@@nicolausharvot3825 I agree with you in general. Problem is to me that guys like BM spend 15 minutes complaining about stuff they could just as easily ignore. Then they attach this to "the left" when I don't think anyone really cares that much. I dunno. I hear a lot about what people don't like but not much about how to deal with it and that bugs me no matter your "side". Appreciate you sharing your thoughts
What exactly is left vs right .I'm asking because they both flip flop just like humans constantly bending over backwards for some stupid tribe .It's all the same .I'm not even arguing its just so ...never mind.
I loved this segment. I think it's important to flip the situation, as Bill did a couple of times, e.g. Ana de Armas as Marilyn. Another good example is Neil Patrick Harris, a gay man who nailed the role of Barney, an aggressively heterosexual man, in "How I Met Your Mother". Gay people are not underrepresented in Hollywood productions, yet he was "allowed" to take a role from a straight actor? Oh right, no one objected. Nor should they have. It's obscene what's going on with this woke bullshit, and it has to stop.
Producers, directors, and actors have to grow a pair and respond "Fuck you" (or similar) when this issue is raised, not go on an apology tour.
GOOD POINT! There are many gay actors who play str8 and vice versa.
The NPH comparison is spot on. Well said!
We need to respond by canceling all who partake in this BS.
Bill hits it on the head but ISIS-beheading video captive Tom Hanks announcing it's moral "progress" is somehow the cringiest bit. As though there's been some great intellectual breakthrough.
100% agree with you, but wasn't he still in the closet during How I Met Your Mother?
You hit it out of the park with this one. So true on every point.
There’s a difference between Twitter and the real world. We need to do what we can to keep it that way.
I recently took a trip (from the Midwest) to Seattle. It's definitely not only on Twitter
This has become the new version of "keeping up with the Jones'"
Well, when you're living in a drug filled delusion of grandeur and narcissism, I'd imagine that telling the difference between reality and the echo chamber that you're always lurking in can be pretty.....hard to do, lol
@@BasementPepperoni who’s living in a drug fueled delusion ? I work 16 hour shifts and watch Bill Maher clips on RUclips sometimes. Most people I know do not go on Twitter. The opposite of the woke mob is the Maga crowd. Both are being fed lies by people who make money from doing so.
You misunderstand me. I never pointed the finger at you, lol
@@queenc2144 Also, you're right, there is also the "Maga Crowd", who have a some people who are nut jobs. There's always 2 sides to every coin.
Except, in this particular case of "extremism" and "BLATANT lies and "hypocrisy", anyone with a conscience or morals can see which group of people is an ACTUAL threat and has been for YEARS now. Then there's the other side of nut jobs, who are lifted up on a pedestal and used for a multi year political stunt.
Sure don't remember the last time I had to worry about being attacked/assaulted/or worse by some "DRUMPF Supporter" anytime there's a "mostly peaceful protest" going on somewhere that I happen to be that day. Oh, then having it being completely covered up and swept under the rug afterwards, and literally ANYONE who talks about it is called an "Istaphobazi"?
No, fuuuuuck that shit.
Yea, the right sure can be crazy, but at least I dont have to worry about my town being burned down, and anyone I know dying because of their fascist Cult mentality.
Acting used to mean pretending to be a person you are not. Now it means pretending to be someone who is already exactly like you.
brilliantly put!
Thank you for staying sane in an insane world.
To be clear It's the liberals who are pushing this crap.
sanity when the conditions are "safe" is no sanity
Bill Maher always makes so much logical sense.
Great job exposing the all-around hypocrisy no matter where or who it originates from.
But there's some of us out here in fly-over country that see Bill as several years behind us. He's now saying what we were ridiculed for saying, sometimes even by himself, before he came to his senses. Does that count for anything on our behalf?
Of course not. We're still just the evil Trump supporters, or backward stubborn "racists" for refusing to accept the newest BS from the pervert crowd that can't afford to stay as whatever they were last year, forever discovering newer "woker" territory that soon enough becomes the next laughing stock, or tragedy, like the kids getting sex hormones and surgery because they're still at the age where their imagination outperforms their common sense, while the adults doing it to them will witness their profound sorrow in the years to come.... and many already are.
I don't watch much. Wow this world has gone to shit the last 5 years hahaha
Bill , when did you get sooo on point?!? I hadn't heard from you in the last few years , but you have come back as a force for reason !
He was suffering from TDS. He only came out of it when he was reminded there actually ARE worse things than Trump.
As a person who served in the military , I find it offensive when actors play soldiers . It is cultural appropriation!!!! This should not be allowed !
Hilarious. Similar subject. Who didn't love Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder o7
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Elon Musk was right - "Wokeness" is a mind virus. They're going absolutely insane with all of this. It's happening in fiction writing too - you can't write characters of other races without a "sensitivity reader" now. Where does it end?
That made laugh
Yeah but soldiers can't remember their lines. You need to be able to read...
Excellent points so well made. Thank you, Bill Maher. I love rational ideas well expressed.
The best part of Friday is watching a new New Rule lol
I look forward to it every week! 😀
@@lennonacid me too!!!
As an Italian Plumber, I’m truly happy John Liguizamo is finally being called out for his affront to my people. Now excuse me while I warp down a pipe, I have to kick a turtle in the face.
Beware of the piranha plants. They can be brutal.
Let's a go!
Could you bring back one of those red Mushrooms?
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Luigi Mario!!
Dropping bombs and facts for these ridiculous times we are living in, you have to call it as it is! Great Job with this one, cheers from Colombia!
So fun watching white people play black an brown people cause there are so many of those stories to choose from
@@user-sh1do4sp8e examples ?
Not a hardcore Bill fan - but this is a masterpiece
Bill you are on a roll. You are doing a great job with lessons on common sense and funny doing it. Keep up the good work. You even have your studio audience clapping and laughing. It gives me hope that the whole country is not going nuts.
"You even have your studio audience clapping and laughing." Have you not watched this show before? That's what they're paid to do. BTW you left out whooping.
Thank you for being the voice of reason! So sick off the public outrage that comes with every topic nowadays.
Blame "social" media.
His punchline at the end is one of the BEST I've ever heard!
Well played!
That was definitely a gut buster.
You are so funny and truthful is hilarious. You Mr Bill Maher are so brilliant. I love your show.
I'm no longer going to watch apollo 13 because I can no longer stomach the idea of watching a movie about astronauts where the people in the movie are not astronauts.
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I’m never watching Wizard of Oz again because that one human had the audacity to dress like a Lion. That’s Species Appropriation!
Boycott historical films… the people acting on them should be dead.
add john wick to that because no one were real assassins
@@afridgetoofar1818 at least the tin man was an actual tin man. That’s a start.
Bill gets 100% for this piece. He nailed it.
never thought I would agree so much with bill maher!! good for him standing up and saying what he feels and what needs to be said
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing, selling the gospel in any way, collecting money for ministering in any way whatsoever, anyone teaching same sex marriage is a sin when it is NOT, rich people, unrepentant rapists, lying police people, corrupt judges, and all other unrepentant evil people will be in the GREAT TRIBULATIONS - begins September 1 of this year! That includes anyone listing cashapp links and other bank account links on their youtube channel or asking for donations.
Lev. was translated wrong billy graham. Refering to pedophilia. "Men shall not molest young boys."
Delete or reject the messages sent from the messenger of Malachi 3:1 and you reject Jesus Christ Herself and choose to die with the wicked.
Malachi 2 proves Malachi 3:8 is prophetic instruction for the thieving church leaders to bring back the money they were never supposed to take for ministering and God will end Covid. Every major church around the world knew this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much they chose to kill everyone with Covid instead of returning it!
James 5:2 Rich people are NOT Christians and the wealth they selfishly kept to themselves will only be used as evidence to burn them.
The 2 witnesses are righteousness and judgement, not actual people. There is no ONE antichrist; it was made up by people that worship money.
Stay out of the fake churches or you will die with them and their lies. In order to be a church, the place must house people inside it. Otherwise it's another private money-making business serving satan and part of Babylon.
There is no such thing as rapture. Jesus comes back to rule. God's people are caught up spiritually...
Romans is not referring to Eunuchs where one partner is transgender.
Mathew 19:12
🏳️🌈 Eunuchs that are born that way are transgender. It's even in the Bible. Yes, the bible was written by bigoted men and is way outdated and was changed and should be thrown out. But even Jesus spoke about transgender people. Eunuchs made that way by others were abused (it doesn't happen to everyone that is abused). Those that choose to live like Eunuchs FOR THE SAKE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN are bisexual people that choose partners of the same sex characteristics but opposite in regards to gender. Notice, God PREFERS for people to be in LGBT relationships.
Eunuchs are same sex couples. One partner is transgender. Transgender is when someone is born with a gender opposite the sex characteristics normally associated with that gender. God made us male or female, determined by gender, located in the brain.
Your gender is located in your brain and determined at birth. I have an identical twin sister that is female in gender. I am male in gender.
I am Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and that means any discrepancies in the bible are ultimately decided by me. Plus, it states in Deuteronomy that nobody was castrated back then. And that doesn't make sense anyhow. No one is born castrated and no one is born making the decision to be celibate. But, that is what God wanted the lying preachers to think so they wouldn't take it out of the bible. Intersex people still have one gender or another because gender is located in your brain.
And Acts 3:22-23 says it will come to pass that anyone that fails to listen to me will be utterly destroyed from among the people. So anyone that says different than this won't be here much longer. It's everyone's choice.
Anyone teaching the LIE of monetary tithing or getting paid in any way to minister will also die with the wicked.
Peter 2:9 says we are ALL ministers . . . .
Jesus was transgender and will return as a woman.....
Remember, Malachi 3:8-12 is talking to the thieving church leaders. It's the answer to end Covid and every major church around the world has known this since August of 2020 but they LOVE MONEY so much, they INTENTIONALLY CHOSE to kill everyone instead of returning it. My preaching will lead to a universal monthly income for everyone. If church leaders dont repent, they won't be here to see it. Their choice . . . .. ..
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Unfortunately I only recognize your name as a reference to ‘a street car named desire’ because of the Simpsons.
You don't listen to Bill enough then.
Bill has always been good at pointing out the nonsensical. The fact that you previously disagreed with him simply means that you've drunk the crazy kool-aid from the other side. Now that the left are going full blown loony toons, he's calling them out more (and nutjob Republicans think he's changed). He hasn't changed. The idiocy he's previously called out from the right is just as idiotic as the idiocy he's currently calling out from the left.
You know it's bad when an old-time "Yellow Dog" Democrat like Bill Maher throws his hands up and says "Enough!" Sooner or later everyone has a breaking point.
Andy Garcia played an Italian in The Untouchables and Cliff Curtis played a Mexican in Training Day.
I never complained when I found out that they didn't share the same backgrounds as their characters.
I'm not a casting director, but in my opinion, when you are looking for the best actor for a role, all that matters is that they look the part and play it well.
As long as they do try to "look the part". The problem with black actors portraying white HISTORICAL characters is that people are then determined that person was black.
@@kitsiewr Well they shouldn't. First Anne Boleyn and now Cleopatra. Next they might be going after Jesus.
Andy Garcia and THE WHOLE LATIN CAST played Italians in "City Island".
As an actor, I love this. It needs to be said, over and over again.
This is one of the most beautiful and brilliant monologues I've ever seen from anyone. So many great lines.
When Bill became the VOICE OF REASON, I knew were were in big trouble.
MUCH RESPECT, BILL !!!
He has pretty consistently pointed out Hypocrisy. It's just that polarization has now created so much more.
I don’t know why people keep commenting this on his videos, he’s been like this for a long, long time
Lucious Skywalker-because Bill wasn’t always like this. For a long time he was a smug liberal. He can get like that sometimes still, but he’s not afraid now to call out this bullshit, on BOTH sides of the political aisle.
The Bill Maher I’ll respect it’s been a long time Bill good to have you back🎉😎😏
Once again, Bill makes sense and keeps it funny!😁😂
YUP. Destroying woke vegan liberals as usual
The only way you know when to laugh is the from the crowd.
I caught this on HBO yesterday but it's worth watching again. **Standing ovation**
I can’t say it enough lately, THANK YOU Bill for speaking some desperately needed common sense!!
Tom Stanks and John Lizardguano are as equally evil as they are astoundingly stupid
You and he need help
Ok boomer
@@codzboy74 Coming from a member of the casting police, I’ll take that as a massive compliment.
@@bford5899 I work in the industry and I'm certainly not on the right but this woke shit has gone way too far. Talented people in all the trades struggle to get work while hacks with no talent are hired because their transgender or non-binary.
An actor by definition is someone whose profession is pretending to be someone else, not just be him/herself. Good acting is when the actor does it convincingly.
This popping up could not have been timelier. My 12-year-old just got turned down for the role of Medda in a community theater group because her Hispanic skin was not dark enough. She "blew them away" and was "phenomenal", but they couldn't give her the role that she earned and worked her butt off for. I don't blame the theater; I blame those that complained before about another show and ruined it for her.
My heart is saddened to hear her loss of a role. Though tell her to keep going and hold her head up high.
@@dennisd4452 thanks, it hit her pretty hard.
Youth today think they should be handed everything. Tell her to work harder and maybe she will get a part next time.
You bring up a perfect point. Giving a role to someone purely based on ethnicity is pure discrimination. Funny the one thing they “claim” to fight against. The woke today are in essence the magicians of our time. Everything done is done with a slight of hand. We’re the party of acceptance, while we accept nothing of the other party. Straight up mind bending!
@@Danzigscat How do you know that she didn't work her butt off for it? You weren't there, and are speaking out of line.
This is spot on!! I am for the most part liberal but I am so tired of "woke-ism" and the fear of insulting anyone! That reduces us to a "lowest common denominator" society, don't say anything because there's somebody out there that might feel bad... 🤔
If a Black Actress plays a role as The Little Mermaid, then Conservatives will cry about "forced diversity" just because the actress is a minority. And if a White Actress plays a role as Pocahontas, then Liberals will cry about "ethnic appropriation", so the truth of the matter is that there is extremism on both sides of the political spectrum regarding this topic; the Far Right have their own version of ultra wokeness-- xenophobia is just the other side of the same coin. My personal viewpoint is that actors should be able to play any role that they can get.
Exactly why I've been anti- political correctness for decades. It doesn't matter what you say, someone, somewhere is going to be offended. There is a reason for the saying "you can't please everyone all of the time."
Go ahead, say the N-word then
Leftists will now say you sound like a right winger.
@@CrustyUgg Actually alt right. Everyone who disagrees with progressives is alt right.
Chris Hemsworth isn't a norse demi-god in real life. CANCELLED!
Please never mention that dude again - he’s a horrible actor - just awful at his craft
@@windriver4527 dumb
He may not be Norse but he's damn close to a demi-god in terms of appearance.
@@MrBrock314
He’s a steroid junkie - and a horrible actor. Only stopped Americans would go watch anything he’s in
Couldn't find a guy with red hair
Yes, yes, and yes. I so agree.
Piers Morgan struggling to contain himself during Bill's monologue. That's how you host a show, Piers!
I was expecting him to interrupt Bill.
As a straight hairstylist 42 years I'm convinced the gay men and women I proudly worked with all those years are absolutely appalled at all the negative attention coming their way . They worked very hard to be accepted for who they are and were successful in that effort. Now, their movement has been highjacked by crazies.
@Tracy Comstock Tracy your comment in no way connects to the one you're replying too. It just shows how simple-minded you are. I feel sorry for you and your family.
@Tracy Comstock Trump lives rent free in your pea brain I gather. WTF do Republicans have to do with my comment?
@Tracy Comstock Get a job weirdo.
@Tracy Comstock Yes, you did…! And I agree! Seriously. Bless your true 💗❣️❣️
@Tracy Comstock Yeah they used to be the class of the town, so to speak.
I'm deeply grateful for this brilliant offering!! This concern goes beyond Acting!! It relates to writers of fiction, non- fiction, what clothes and accessories we wear, what dances we dance and songs we sing!! Our imaginations allow us to travel beyond ourselves!! Bravo Bill!! Thank you!! Empathically yours, Judit from Montreal.
That, in fact, is the PURPOSE of art. Not to reflect back our egotistical wishes and limitations but to challenge us to identify, as Percy Shelley says, with "the beautiful that exists in thought, action, or person NOT OUR OWN."
3 cheers for Bill Maher!
This has got to be in the top five best monologues Bill Maher has done.
I love how smart and self aware of society bill is. Truly a respectable person!
except when anyone says "Trump" then he becomes another hysterical nutcase.
Nailed it, again! "“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” - Milton Friedman.
"If I say, 'I am not controlled; I am *free,'* I do not speak well for my sanity."
--- Somebody you've never heard of.
You dont even know what you're talking about
OMG, that "Scissor-hands" joke was so funny!
I have a hard time laughing at this. It's like it's not a joke anymore. It's too true to be funny. I'm just happy he still has the courage to open his mouth about it.
Ian McKellen played Gandalf even though he's not a Maia. The fact that the Maiar are not real is no excuse :)
Best comment here. ❤
Philadelphia really helped me growing up as a young gay man. Hearing Tom Hanks say he wouldn’t do it is heartbreaking.
It's OK -- just put aside your abominations, and you'll get over it.
Very well put, Bill. Glad to see you got your head out of your can.
He’s so on point
He's late to the table. How many years have people spent telling you guys it's not inclusion it's segregation.
Bill’s been sayin this shit for so long now, one of the few things he holds steady on. He tows the
shit-lib party line in many ways but he kills the trivial nonsense on this one. It’s such a case of a dog with his tale between his legs how these actors relent on their roles after the fact. They don’t actually believe this PR drivel, they’re just telling the
piss-ant plebs what they wanna hear
As a black woman I understand everything you're saying. And even though he's late to the table it still has to be said. A professor once told me repetition is the essence of learning.
You’d be the first to complain if Danny Glover were cast as George Washington.
@@joemartinez331 please lighten up like you said it's acting people transform themselves all the time. Look at any Murphy in coming to America he played the hell out of an old Jewish man special effects makeup. No I do understand some historical figures need to be portrayed in some real likeness. That makes sense in the context of the story. But most of this in the acting world is made up to make believe.
Thank you for constantly reminding people what actual liberalism is Bill. Wokeness is not liberalism. It's a form of marxism that substitutes identity for economic class.
Marxism would be a breath of fresh air. Liberalism has driven our country into the ground and possibly to the brink of collapse.
It substitute identity for economic classes, which means it's not marxism at all. It only steal speech elements from it.
If it was actual marxism, it would not be supported by all of hollywood, most medias, most instituions, the majority of politician, most NGO, banks and credit card companies.
Cyanide300- Good point- thanks for bringing this up.
The only problem is that if you're on team blue those are the very people you're supporting with your votes, the woke. Who do you think is running this country into the ground right now? I consider the 'woke' to be domestic enemies. Period.
I don't agree with everything that comes out Bill's mouth........ But this I can definitely get behind and agree with.
I agree with you agreeing to agree... Now, get him to stop clapping his hands like a fool during every monologue.
Not hard to do, in this case
"I dont agree with everything you say" there is always atleast one who cant resist stating the obvious.
I don't think anyone agrees with everything that comes out his mouth, he's diverse in his viewpoints and that's why I like him. He's upset me before, but I still watch every episode because I respect his ability to speak his mind right or wrong. There isn't a lot of that on television.
We may not always like what he says but one thing that cannot be argued is that he does not prejudge situations or people. Rather than spouting inane comments like others in the media and government (you know who), he applies logic to come up with a sound rationale for his standpoint which is genuinely rare these days, especially in Washington. While it would never happen, its too bad we cannot get Bill to consider exchanging his seat at the HBO studio desk for a seat at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
Bill you crazy man. You are fantastic well done
Bill, you and your writers, are absolutely brilliant and nailed it with this segment.
You think bill is funny? Hahahaha
@@PartnershipsForYou Facts don't have to be funny.
Thanks for staying real Bill…you are one of only a few and I appreciate you.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Thank you Bill for saying what needed to be said.
Bill Maher is REMARKABLY full of shit here.
If a LATINO actor like Oscar Isaac was casted as a say George Washington, Bill would be on the Daily Wire TOMORROW bitching that it was "woke" garbage while he and Ben Shapiro Blew each other for 20 minutes.
You mentioned all The Times John loguizamo has played a non Latino character. Do you know why? It is because the further back you go the harder it was for John lequizamo - or any Latino actor - to play positive *Latino rolls or any Latino rolls at all. And THIS is why John leguzamo is saying what he saying.
Latinos have a very hard time to this day finding positive roles, the least we could fucking do is ask for Hollywood tor Hollywood to stop giving our roles to white actors that have enough work.
Hate it when they don’t cast real superheroes as superheroes in superhero movies or monsters in monster movies.
Being a proud Brit, one of my favourite books is the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy series. In the Books & BBC TV series, Ford Prefect was portrayed/played as a white man with an English accent. In the film, Mos Def plays him. They were both fantastic, because 2 great actors defined the character in their own ways.
Knocked this one out of the park, Bill! Very well said! 👏👍👍💯
If a straight actor can't play a gay man, does that mean a gay actor can't be cast as a straight man? Such foolishness. Thanks Bill for calling it out.
Somebody better tell Neil Patrick Harris that then. Because he was PHENOMENAL as Barney Stinson...
Exactly! Can transgenders only play transgenders? Imagine how well that would go down.
@@lastfrontier6536 I was just going to mention that haha
Nobody could have done that role better.
@@lastfrontier6536 Or Jim Parsons playing Sheldon Cooper.
They'll scream about intersectionality as an excuse to be inconsistent
thanks for using your platform to speak truth over feelings Bill!!!
Bill Maher is right on the money, as always. One of the reasons to keep my HBO subscription.
To them, it is appropriation only if it involves white actors.
Anne Boleyn was recently portrayed by a black woman, even though she is historically ginger.
But, if you protest against that and call it blackwashing, they will call you a racist.
Both whitewashing and blackwashing are bad, but not to them: for them the former is an unforgivable sin and the latter is recommended in the name of diversity.
Actually neither of them could possibly matter less. It’s actors playing a role pretending to be someone they aren’t. Who gives a fuck who they actually are??
Dude.
Look into it.
A massively disproportionate number of the roles that have been recast as black have been gingers.
It's weird.
@@hhiippiittyy Fun fact: there are far less ginger people in the world than there are black people. So, if a black person portrays an originally ginger character, this actually destroys diversity.
@@hhiippiittyy I'm curious...please name some examples besides Anne Boleyn.
@@stefantsarev4442 Its also destroys the character.
"It sounds like something Mel Gibson says at a traffic stop" had me howling
Daniel Day-Lewis has been playing Gary Oldman for the last 20 years, and we didn't even notice. He's that good.
I’m convinced Daniel Day-Lewis is actually a statue that only comes to life once it’s been given a script
@@blindoutlaw that's a very intriguing theory. The script has to be presented to his statue form in a closely-guarded ceremony, I'd imagine.
LMAO You win the internet today
Well put
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I hate the term cultural appropriation. This separates us as humans. We should share each other's culture. We shouldn't mock or demean them, but share and celebrate them. Screw the ideas of the far left and far right. Stay in tbe middle.
Bill makes so much sense it’s actually hurting my head how insane it is
Ok Bill if you keep this up I'm going to have to keep watching your shows. Thank you for helping save our Country.
save our country? He's the guy that wanted a recession because he had Trump derangement syndrome frim fake news. He's the most rational person that reads fake news. That's who he is. He's always years behind the times. Everything he says he should've said 5 years ago.
Dude saving the country 😆you think pointing this out,people going too far is “saving the country”
People starving dying all over unnecessarily and what you care about if stopping woke people
You anti woke people are just as bad a d the super woke people
Bill should stop using this “I found another thing people have gone too far and I can use the word “woke” in the joke”
Because he is showing he has no real material or at least enough these “woke too far” skits are just easy and lazy and Bill is actually ruining comedy by still using it over and over
I watch Bill Maher somewhat regularly, even though I don't agree with him very often. But he nailed this segment.
Bill, I have come to appreciate what you have to say. Thank you.