It’s not like anything that Maher was saying isn’t true on some level. Yes, the pope was a german soldier, and yes the church has had problems with pederasts in their midst.
Obviously the best humor is based in some level of fact. But in this instance, that humor crossed into poor taste. Maher is trying to work the same high intellect action that Dennis Miller works. He’s not nearly as accomplished at it as Miller and this set of jokes fell flat, with a thud.
I suspect Maher lacks the requisite intellect to make that work. Every time Maher opens his mouth, he tends to support my position.
Levels of truth?
That scum Maher isn’t even accomplished enough to clean the dog sh1t off Dennis Miller’s shoes!
Didn’t Maher get fired once, (from ABC I think), over saying something equally odious? About our troops If I recall correctly?
Yours is a really ignorant post. You make the assumption all German soldiers were nazis.
This is not intellectual humor, its just insults with no basis in fact. If he is so intellectual how about a few REALLY tasteless jokes about Muslims, Jews or Blacks and see how that would go over as “not as good at jokes as Miller.” Maher wouldn’t make it out of his TV studio alive
if he said that about Muslims.
In your apology for Maher’s statements, you rely on humor as his/your defense. At no point was Maher even attempting to be humorous, so he crossed no “humor” line. He simply, as usual, used his airtime to vent his often vicious views. There is no defense for him in this particular case.
I’ve heard this jerk has to use laugh tracks and prompters.