Well, time to retreat to the past, I think.

Specifically, the golden age of 2003.

Your favorite year?

My favorite year.

We're talking about Bill Maher Victory begins at home.

Every Bill Maher special kind of fades into one big soup.

You can tell them apart mostly by the cultural references. We got a reference to

the Dixie Chicks in this one. There's some jokes about the terror threat advisory, you know,

the colors, orange, yellow, et cetera. A lot of Al Gore stuff. I liked that. There's also a joke

about immigrants. He says, they do all the jobs nobody wants

to do, like landscaping and impregnating Madonna. And I had to pause and think, wait, what,

what's that? Who was she married to? Oh, right, Guy Ritchie. She was married to Guy Ritchie.

This real test of what your 2003-era cultural knowledge is.

Yeah, this is post-9-11 Iraq War era, Bill Maher, and we all know kind of where he stands

now on the current conflicts. So I was interested in seeing where a man on sort of the

cutting edge of the center left was standing at this time,

you know, a very similar moment in history. How did you enjoy the special, Luke? Uh, I did not

enjoy it. Next question. Oh. Didn't you laugh occasionally? There were a couple jokes that

kind of got me here. Maybe, I got to be honest. Maybe, uh, maybe the odd one. But no, I mean,

this special was very taxing to watch, not only because it's mostly so

unfunny, but because, as you said, to keep up with a lot of the jokes, I mean, the

jokes, it's just the same shit that Bill Maher always does.

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