It was a very strange week, Bill Maher noted at the top of his Real Time show on HBO Friday night. There was a lot of good news, he said. “But it came too late to prevent Democrats from getting their ass kicked all over the country.”
Perhaps sensing the shifting tide, Maher started out the night mocking the Virginia gubernatorial triumph of Glenn Youngkin, noting the name sounds like “The scotch you buy at Costco.”
But he couldn’t joke too much during the rest of the show, pushing back strongly on one guest during a discussion about Critical Race Theory, and knocking down some of the arguments made by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar during her opening interview.
In her segment, Klobuchar kept falling back on her talking points of politicians trying to help real people with real life problems. But when she launched into blaming Republicans for blocking...
Perhaps sensing the shifting tide, Maher started out the night mocking the Virginia gubernatorial triumph of Glenn Youngkin, noting the name sounds like “The scotch you buy at Costco.”
But he couldn’t joke too much during the rest of the show, pushing back strongly on one guest during a discussion about Critical Race Theory, and knocking down some of the arguments made by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar during her opening interview.
In her segment, Klobuchar kept falling back on her talking points of politicians trying to help real people with real life problems. But when she launched into blaming Republicans for blocking...
- 11/6/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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