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What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Some of the smartest commentary about what’s happening in America is coming from a comedian—this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what’s wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking a...

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The Megyn Kelly Show

Bill Maher talked about how the book mocks clickbait. He also said he redid all of the editorials for the book and worked on it during the strike last year. He said that it's a diagnosis on what's going on with us right now and picks up on something Megyn Kelly said to him about feeling without a political home. Maher feels like this is his best book, and is proud of it. He recommends people read it like the bible.

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This is the tease we used on Fox News for about two decades. Without the words comedian, what you hear next will shock you. Right. Exactly. I thought I would bring it to the book world.

— Episode: "Hillary Was the OG Election Denier!" |...

Episode: "Hillary Was the OG Election Denier!" | Bill Maher...

Bill Maher talked about how the book mocks clickbait. He also said he redid all of the editorials for the book and worked on it during the strike last year. He said that it's a diagnosis on what's going on with us right now and picks up on something Megyn Kelly said to him about feeling without a political home. Maher feels like this is his best book, and is proud of it. He recommends people read it like the bible.

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This is the tease we used on Fox News for about two decades. Without the words comedian, what you hear next will shock you. Right. Exactly. I thought I would bring it to the book world.

I mean, I worked like I could never have done this without the strike, the strike that we had last year game at the time to do this.

I think people should treat like the Bible. I think they should put it by their nightstand and read passages each night. And I think it'll help you through your life.

I think it's, I think I know, I think they thought he was the strongest candidate, the one who could sort of be the strongest leader and take Biden down. But I look at Biden, and I feel like the Democrats really could have made a switcheroo.

I mean, my first show back after the strike ended, which was last September, the first editorial I did was called Ruth Bader Biden. I was the one who coined that phrase. I was saying, if he continues on, if he doesn't get out of the race, he's going to be Ruth Bader Biden. He's going to be the person who's hung around too long, destroyed his legacy, and probably the country with it.

Episode: Bill Maher on Biden's Pandering, Woke Progressives...

Bill Maher discussed his new book, which was released on the day of the podcast. It is a collection of his editorials from his HBO show and is described as a 'real book' compared to his previous 'toilet books' of 'New Rules'.

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I feel like this one I'm more proud of than any book I ever did.

I think they should put it by their nightstand and read passages each night. And I think it'll help you through your life.

I really think it's not mostly me. I mean, the left was very different. Now, of course, the right got way worse.

I say I have lost some people and I don't miss them. Those are the more woke people who think I'm somehow betrayed them.

It's actually very, the funniest book ever, I think. And lots of people have said the same thing.

Episode: Andrew Schulz and Bill Maher - Megyn Kelly's "Doub...

The book was promoted as a brandnew release that mixes humor with political commentary, and the host described it as very funny and worth reading.

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Joining me now is someone I've been wanting to interview on this program. For years, he is one of the sharpest political commentators around. ... He's author of the brand new book that's just out today, What This Comedian Said Will Shock.

And watching real time. And buying this book. It's called... It's actually very, it's the funniest book ever.

Don't forget, it's called What This Comedian Said. Good Father's Day present. Shock you.

Adam Carolla Show

It was said that Bill Maher's book offered a similar assessment of the decline in sex Americans are having, with the blame placed on feminism for destroying men and ruining sex. He blamed feminism for destroying men and ruining sex.

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That's the result of having it drilled into us in recent years that masculinity is itself toxic and scary and unevolved.

— Episode: Kyle Dunnigan on Amex Black Cards, Watch...

Episode: Kyle Dunnigan on Amex Black Cards, Watches, & Domi...

It was said that Bill Maher's book offered a similar assessment of the decline in sex Americans are having, with the blame placed on feminism for destroying men and ruining sex. He blamed feminism for destroying men and ruining sex.

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That's the result of having it drilled into us in recent years that masculinity is itself toxic and scary and unevolved.

And women don't like it. Women are attracted to these girly men they've created, he writes.

On with Kara Swisher

It is a collection of all the editorials he's done on the end of his show for the last 20 years, he reimagined them, rewrote them, and picked out the creme de la creme. He said that it took him 20 years to write this book. He also said that his material in the book is LOL tested and that it is funny on every page.

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Bill's new book titled What This Comedian Said Will Shock You consolidates these editorials from the past 20 years.

— Episode: Bill Maher Won't Back Down (But He Might...

Episode: Bill Maher Won't Back Down (But He Might Shock You...

It is a collection of all the editorials he's done on the end of his show for the last 20 years, he reimagined them, rewrote them, and picked out the creme de la creme. He said that it took him 20 years to write this book. He also said that his material in the book is LOL tested and that it is funny on every page.

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Bill's new book titled What This Comedian Said Will Shock You consolidates these editorials from the past 20 years.

This book is a collection of all the editorials I've done on the end of the show for the last 20 years.

So basically, it took me 20 years to write this book.

And so people have told me, it's just, and when I read it over, it's like, it is. It's funny on every page. I mean, LOL.

I mean, LOL. When I was reading them over, they're all very funny.

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