It was my pleasure to review Bill Maher’s new book, “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” for this week’s Washington Examiner. I confess that I am a Bill fan. I don’t have HBO, so I often watch a bootleg version of the live show that someone in some faraway country uploads on Friday night. I am part of a ragtag crew that shows up to haggle in the comments section. There are all kinds of people (freeloaders) represented there, from those that are probably sitting at home in their keffiyeh scarves to some guy whose profile pic is an eagle with a machine gun in its talons. I mostly comment on Bill’s appearance — his choice of belt, his glasses, the sheen in his hair.
I started watching sometime in 2020, looking for a little sanity in the pandemic, and quickly found that Bill had interviewed many of my favorite authors. He also had a reputation as a sex-positive libertine, a singleton by choice with a preference for big-titted broads as well as nerdy girls. He is a furious defender of free speech.