“While it’s our preference not to cut jokes from anyone’s set, The Kennedy Center has the contractual right to do so,” the Netflix spokesperson told Variety.
Unsurprisingly, several Trump administration officials were present at the taping of the ceremony, including Mehmet Oz and Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who very recently claimed that he cut ties with Epstein in 1998, yet was caught emailing about plans to have lunch on Epstein’s island in 2012 in the recent February dump of Epstein files.
Umm what? I thought you had to be funny to get that prize? Is the prize itself satire? Maher is just some decrepit asshole who occasionally has cameras pointed at him.
7 Comments
HubertManne@piefed.social · 23 pts · 32d
wow. i likely would not have heard the joke except for the whole censoring thing.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 32d
Why is that in the contract?
Hegar@fedia.io · 10 pts · 32d
Umm what? I thought you had to be funny to get that prize? Is the prize itself satire? Maher is just some decrepit asshole who occasionally has cameras pointed at him.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 32d
Even those that agree with Bill Maher have to agree he's a smarmy POS.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 32d
And a sex pest, if everyone's accounts of meeting him are to be believed.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 32d
He admonishes his audience on his show for not finding him funny too.
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
https://www.patreon.com/cw/IHateBillMaher
Good podcast