I’ve tried watching a stand up special of his. I just couldn’t get into it. I did like Religulous though.
I don’t, and now I’m annoyed you made me remember he exists.
I started to watch him as he never pulled punches and picked some great match ups of guests and hot topics.
I stopped because his insufferable ego kept compelling him to continuously talk over everyone with his non-stop opinionated smug. Once I noticed I was just watching one man listening to the sound of his own voice while guests that I wanted to hear from get repeatedly cut off at every third word by his desire to manufacture Jerry Springer type drama, I realised how punchable I truely found him to be.
He’s a self-righteous asshole.
I thought he was funny in the 90’s. I saw a newer stand up special he did a couple years ago and was totally turned off by his views and the fact that not one of his jokes were actually funny.
Same with Dennis Miller.
I’ve been told when I went to bitch about that special on Reddit that he was only funny before because he wasn’t writing his own jokes, and I’m not sure if that is actually true but it would make sense.
Classic Boomer, funny sometimes and he gets good guests.
For a while it seemed like his guest quality was generally high enough to be watchable, but its been years.
He’s a smarmy self-important jackass who revels in the ability to get as much attention possible by attacking anyone who can’t defend themselves.
I bet myself I would find the word “smarmy” somewhere here. Agreed
I read the whole thread shocked that so many people hate Bill Nye Science Guy, then I re read the title.
Yeah he’s an antivaxx douche
I don’t hate bill nye, but i definitely don’t like him. I didn’t grow up watching his show, because i’m not american, but i watched his netflix show where he comes off as a know it all cunt who doesn’t even let people talk when he disagrees and treats people like idiots who have other opinions. And i say that as someone who agrees with most of his ideas.
You sure you aren’t thinking of Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Purely from description I’m sure that they meant Neil deGrasse Tyson. No self describing scientist should ever be as smug and full of themself as he is.
I quite like him and his show real time. Don’t always agree with him and he often has very insufferable guests on the show, but overall it’s way worth watching.
2 decades ago I might have agreed, but he’s more insufferable than his guests and is moving towards being just another reactionary shithead.
Yeah, I don’t see it. Except for a couple of niche issues he is very reasonable and quite pleasent to listen to.
Wasn’t he one of the people complaining about schools providing litter boxes for furry students despite there being no evidence of that happening?
I vaguely remember something like that. But he has comedy segments on his show. That sound like something from “I don’t know it for a fact, I just know it’s true”. Which is a fromat which can very easily be taken out of context.
But I’m not sure. Do you know which episode it was in?
I was looking for the kitty litter thing and found this. It’s facebook, so open it in a private tab.
He comes across as an out of touch facebook, conservative boomer. Does this count as comedy to you?
Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Ok boomer.
In the vastness of entertainment options, I’m not spending my time on Maher. There are so many others out there doing similar political satire, but without the boomer humor vibe of constantly putting down women, black people, gay people, men who aren’t “manly” enough for him.
I find his comedy to be more smug and condescending than humorous or clever.
Don’t really know anything else about him. Don’t care to either, he can live his life and I can live mine.
People who don’t believe in germ theory shouldn’t be listened to
I like smart humor, so that leaves him out.
Very irrelevant.
