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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

What Is the Point Of Bill Maher?

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Bill Maher is, allegedly, the last sane voice on the left. But he doesn’t believe in the rights of transgender people, or of Palestinians. He thinks college campuses are hotbeds of liberal indoctrinarian that have gotten “out of control.” Come to think of it, he hasn’t really advocated for any left-wing position in recent memory. An advocate for breaking out of echo chambers, Bill speaks almost exclusively to right-wing activists, and never to the minorities he bashes. He claims to know what Democrats should do if they want to win, but hates the ones who are actually winning. Three decades into his TV career and lost in the delusions that often come with a nine-digit net worth, Bill Maher has never been so useless. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Get smarter about yours (and others!) news media consumption with Ground News at https://www.ground.news/fruity Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity Get an exclusive 60% on Incogni! https://incogni.com/fruity Listen to Francesca on The Bituation Room. Follow Francesca on Twitter. Listen to Will on I Hate Bill Maher. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And you wonder why the left catches more jokes for me?

0:04.0

They changed, not me.

0:06.0

Okay?

0:07.0

I mean, they left me. I didn't leave them.

0:08.0

I mean, I'm the same.

0:10.0

It's not me who changed.

0:11.0

I feel I'm the same guy.

0:13.0

What a thing to say that, like, you've not changed.

0:16.0

My God, if in 20 years I defend my career by saying I've not changed, fucking put me out of my misery, kill me.

0:31.5

Hi, I'm an American centrist.

0:34.1

I was socially ahead of the curve.

0:36.3

Until one time, I was asked to challenge my own

0:39.2

pre-existing beliefs on something. Now, I spend my days shaking my fist at people younger than me,

0:44.7

making fun of minorities and smoking a lot of weed. That was kind of my impersonation of Bill Maher.

0:51.3

Do you guys think that was accurate? Yeah. I, you know, if at the end,

0:55.5

you could give a like, a pithy little smirk. Also, lately he does a like, he'll be like,

1:03.5

the left. And he like snaps his mouth shut like a turtle and shoots his face at the camera.

1:09.5

I'm obsessed with his ticks. Like I know his ticks, face at the camera. I'm obsessed with his tics.

1:17.8

Like I know his ticks, even. Last month, I was home with my liberal identifying Democrat voting extended family when one of them said to me, I love Bill Maher. He tells it like it is.

1:24.0

Over the last three decades, comedian and political talk show host, Bill Maher,

1:28.7

has established himself as what he calls an old-school liberal. He's also established himself

1:35.7

as the sane representative voice of the American left, someone who's bravely willing to criticize

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