Bill Maher and guests debated Clint Eastwood on HBO’s Real Time Friday:
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Bill was on point and on a mean fire during this show. Watch the Dinesh D’souza beginning.
Yes. But i was more distracted by the animal on Jason Alexander’s head.
Stranger things have happened to the heads of celebrities.
I think people just pointing the finger at Clint and saying “Old , senile” are just as sad as the message Clint was unfortunately trying to bring out to his fellow Republicans.
I had no idea he was such a nut job conservative though and I gotta say I wish actors wouldn’t voice there political view points publicly because it just ruins my ability to watch them in a movie. The point of movies is to detach or “suspend” your disbelief and forget the hardships in your life for a small amount of time and enjoy the entertainment before you. When a big time actor/director like Clint decides to show any true colors I often am disappointed by the results.
Why should any American, including an an entertainer, give up their constitutional freedom? This idea that entertainers should not voice their opinion just because they’re famous is beyond stupid. No one is forcing you to listen. You can turn off the TV or skip reading this article. You know what that’s called? Freedom. If you can’t separate entertainment from real life that’s your problem. I may have thought Eastwood came off sounding like a fool but I can still enjoy his movies. One has nothing to do with the other.
If you can love a character like Walt Kowalski and love a film like Gran Torino (and Walt is a wonderful character and the film deeply moving and effective) then..well I don’t know how to finish my sentence. So Clint turns out to be a little more Walt in real life than you would have wished? Let it go and enjoy the movie.
Sorry Bill, but you’re wrong. It was Clint Eastwood. He could have taken a dump on that stage, and those far right hacks not only would give him a standing O, they would have fought each other to get a handful of the corn and nuts.
I hope someday that Bill Maher is given the same courtesy that he extended to Clint Eastwood. Bill would certainly fit his own description of Clint Eastwood.
With this in mind, it is easier to understand Bill, for he too is an “Asshole” for his liberal political beliefs…just as he described Clint for his conservative political beliefs…while, nevertheless, both Bill and Clint were funny.
It is sad in political discourse that almost anyone who does not agree with your point of view is an “Asshole”…right, Bill?
Lighten up people!!!
Maher being shocked that Dirty Harry is right wing is the only laugh out loud funny thing, albeit unintentional, he’s said on that show in years.
Wow. Four stories in a row about the chair. It’s pretty sad that the most talked about part of the RNC is this stunt.
He rambled and flubbed some facts, all in all, it was sad, not funny. He was a brilliant man but it sure didn’t look like it at the Convention.
Why is Jason Alexander wearing such a ridiculous wig?? Looks like he picked it up off the side of the road.
Romney found in Clint Eastwood, an angry, old rich white man. Flush them both.
I think Eastwood bumbled too much and just didn’t sound consistent or coherent. It did appear people were in awe of him simply because of his celebrity. I would like to see him sit down with Obama and have a legit debate rather than talk to a chair. Just as much, I’d like to see Romney and Maher have a debate, but that will never happen for obvious reasons. Maher would make him look like a fool.
I would like to condemn Jason Alexander’s wig.
You cannot just cover your famously bald head like that without consulting your fans. It’s not hair plugs or some kind of radial hair restoration or even a Shatner #4. He just went for Dylan McDermot’s Hair! How? Why? How why????
I love Jason and have been a fan for as long as he’s been bald which is forever. Bald has just become cool and us unfortunate baldies could get action from babes for being Ed Harris like or Michael Jordan like and yes even Jason Alexander like. This is a betrayal right up there with Judas and Benedict Arnold.
J’ACCUSE JASON ALEXANDER!
I don’t know what Bill Maher was watching Thursday, but I don’t think it “killed” anything/anyone, except for Clint Eastwood’s credibility. The laughter in the hall was a combination of hoots from the hard-core conservatives who loathe Obama and nervous chuckles from the more intelligent folks who recognized how embarrassing this was for the party and its message.
It would have been awesome if Clint set fire to that chair like his 19 year old grand daughter set fire to that $100,000 Hermes Birkin bag a few months ago. Clint cries over unemployment while that burned bag was equal to three people’s yearly salary.
Sure. Ok, Clint.
72 hours ago Clint was the coolest, now….
Whoa, Bill Maher criticizing someone else for being unfunny? In other news, the pot has met the kettle. Stewart response were hilarious, this on the other hand …
Alan, are you illiterate ? Maher quite clearly stated that Eastwood got up there and got laughs like a comic pro.
I wonder if the Eastwood H8ers are going to spew the same vitrol after Clint Howard gives his oration next to an empty throne at the DNC con?
I agree with Maher. I’m a Democrat but I liked it. Natural, unaffected, improvisational, and clever. He did exactly what they intended to do. To portray Obama as an over-baked and disturbingly over-scripted pathology who is quick on the draw with promises but asleep at the wheel with any meaningful follow-through. Eastwood nailed every Republican issue blithely, casually, almost as if they were throwaways. I see nothing wrong with a guy encouraging people to think before they vote which is ultimately all he did which, these days, is important. A consistent refrain is that Obama is an “empty suit.” Eastwood illustrated this simply, eloquently, efficiently – literally talking to one – in the guise of the average person mired in – over-scripted again – white noise; and Obama’s catchy ad phrase – “the 95%.” The Republicans are just not up to speed on social issues though. And I don’t think that Ryan will flip a single vote that they didn’t already have.
As for Maher I think you do gotta wonder however about an audience that applauds the word “asshole” even within the context with which Maher meant it.
Over-scripted white noise – again. Sort of like theoretically evolved trained seals at the zoo. There wasn’t a joke. It wasn’t material. He just said the word “asshole.” With the right crowd you could get similar applause by substituting it with any number of racial; ethnic; sexual; gender-based; or religious slurs.
It took me a minute or two to catch on and then it was brilliant!!!To bad you demented liberal jerks don’t don’t have the brains to get it. I see this site is only showing the liberal point!!!