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Chapter 1: What is the background of Bill Maher and his early influences?
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Chapter 2: How does Bill Maher view his transition from stand-up to television?
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Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get it on. Mandate. Get it on. And sitting here in Bill Maher's home theater. Got a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Home theater.
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Growing up, did you ever think you'd have a home theater?
Well, you know, I was a kid who dreamed big dreams when I heard the train. Pass by in my bed at night. Oh, no, that was Nixon who did that. I didn't have a train near my house.
I am curious about your background. I don't know where you grew up. I do know something about your early years. But since it's a sort of one-on-one format, can we just go back? Where did you grow up? What did you want to do when you were in high school? All that good stuff.
Yes, we can. Of course. I'm an open book, Adam. You know that. I do. And we're going to pretend you don't know everything about me that we have discussed already on our many mandates. But for the sake of the audience, yes. I grew up in New Jersey. I had what I would call the last leave it to beaver experience.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Bill Maher share about the challenges of stand-up comedy?
upbringing in America. Bill's dog's on top of me right now, by the way. Yeah, your dad did what? My dad was in radio, radio news, in the days when every news station had news at the top of the hour, you know. Right. So every hour on the hour, every station had to give you five minutes of what was going on in the world, and he was one of those guys.
So we lived in a little bedroom community in northern New Jersey, a suburb of New York. He would commute every day, drive... down to the George Washington Bridge, drive across it, park in Harlem, basically. No, not Harlem, Washington Heights, and then take the subway down to Midtown where the radio station was.
I should tell everyone listening, by the way, that Bill Maher is doing a stand-up special, Crazy Stupid Politics, which will be live from Silicon Valley, and he's going to stream it. It's all part, it's today essentially, it's Thursday, February 23rd, but tonight for most of the people that are listening, 7.30 Pacific, 10.30 Eastern.
Part of, well, it's sort of brand new and it's sort of old because I was thinking back of the closed circuit fights between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman or whatever people would gather in the Milwaukee arena and watch it because it couldn't be in Zaire.
True. Well, I mean, this is what I did. I've done nine HBO specials and they were always stand up. And this is basically what I used to do if I was ready to do an HBO special. But I thought since HBO has me 35 weeks a year. and people know me on that station, let's go somewhere where we can make new fans and new people.
And I thought Yahoo has a tremendous reach, and I've always, always wanted to be on a network that's the same word as the word I shout out when I'm coming. So there you have it. That's why I'm on Yahoo. And it's free. It's free.
I'm giving back. I didn't know it was free. Well, of course. It's Yahoo. I just would have assumed that there was some sort of, I don't know, $3.99 a download or something.
Yeah, I mean, Louis C.K. did that. But I wanted to do something different.
free um you know i didn't want to make it's not a money-making thing uh i have a kick-ass stand-up act right now the republicans have given me so much amazing material and it's just a very tight little bitch of an hour that i think will get people laughing and that's all i want to do and and have new new people see what we do and then hopefully come to hbo
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Chapter 4: What issues are raised about government neglect?
That's why we went to Walter Reed Junior High. That's right.
But when you're mad at malaria, you're not afraid that the wasps and hornets and whatever the hell they are, mosquitoes, are going to get offended.
Yes. Wait, which one's the wasps?
I think we are.
So, and you got the guy who's doing the black caucus over here, and he's saying it's not their fault. This is the problem. This is the fault of the willful neglect of the federal, state, and local, elected, whatever. All right, so let me say this. Let's just say it is willful neglect on the state and local and federal level. Do you think it's going to get any better? Because I would say it's not.
If all you do is look at the government and go, what the fuck's up? How come nothing's changed here? Why is the black man falling off and the Jew and the Asian? Why are they rising? Well, first off, do you think there's a conspiracy against the black man? And as I say all the time, you don't think we hate Jews? Hey, take a look at the world, baby. Guess again.
We had a little something called the Holocaust, and there's still a little something. Well, sorry, Ray. I know you're just barely one generation removed there, but all I'm saying is this. Historically, we've not been wild fans of the Jews, yet they graduate. Do you guys want to guess at the rate that the Jews graduate high school? I'm going to venture to say 98. Not bad. Gina?
I'm going to say 89 conservative.
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Chapter 5: How do personal experiences shape perspectives on education?
Solid. Brian? Somewhere around there. 89? It's right on the board, I saw it. 97. Oh! 97. That's right. And the Asians... Love the Jews. Thank you. Asians somewhere around 86%. Sorry. Sorry. By the way, I got the super condescending... I got the super condescending Jew. You know, I got Matt the porcelain punish punishers from the tribe. And he gave me I think he gave me the 97 percent.
And then he paused and he said, that's just three percent. I said, don't fucking talk down to me, Jew boy.
Chapter 6: What humorous anecdotes illustrate childhood experiences?
I can do the math. I may have been a ceramics major, but I can do the math between 97 and 100. She's so proud of his tribe. Then you pause and you're like, it's three, right? Yeah. The point is this. Look, oh, well, who am I to talk about this? I'm a white guy. Well, look, who am I to fucking talk about anything? There's a problem.
Are we not allowed to talk about problems because you don't share the same skin color as the other group? You're a white guy who didn't go to college. Really? You're a white guy who barely graduated high school. You're a white guy... You know, what was your GPA? 1.7. And you got a pocket diploma. Yeah, I didn't get my full diploma.
But if you back out my six A's for playing baseball and football every semester, back six A's out of that 1.7 GPA, I think you're down to .08 or .9. You blow up .08 in your GPA?
Yeah.
I was number four ninety seven out of a class of five seventy and at least fifty five of those people dropped out. Right. Right. There's no way. Yeah. They were Amelia Harden shit. Yeah. All right. So here's the point. Black leaders and black reporters, when you're asked what the problem is, maybe citing hunger. isn't going to be the best road to repair. Why don't you cite the truth?
You know what it is. Whitey can't do it. We're all scared shitless. Everyone's a fucking coward. No one wants to be called a racist. No one wants to fucking step up and tell the truth. By the way, are we doing these young black men any favor by saying hunger? And lack of counselors and poverty and crime as the excuse for why they're not getting an education? Or do we want to get to the problem?
What if it was a physical problem? What if it was just half the black males have this physical ailment? Should we go ahead and cite a whole bunch of fucking medical mumbo jumbo that doesn't get us any closer to healing this problem? It's retarded. I don't understand. It's the ultimate racism. These people are dying in the streets. They're rotting in prisons.
They're having horrible poverty fucking filled lives. And nobody wants to say, again, play modeling once again. Let her explain to us. And you can skip ahead a little. This is a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times explaining why the urban community is not doing well in school. Not ever mentioning the parents. Not ever mentioning the family.
The Chicago Teachers Union took a stand. They said no. They said we are not going to comply with criteria that allows teachers to be dismissed without an opportunity to improve. And we are not going to be the scapegoats for public school education.
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Chapter 7: What legal issues are affecting the sequel to Super Troopers?
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All right. Our good friend Jay Chandrasekhar, you know him, Super Troopers, Beer Fest. Oh, Duke's a hazard. I forgot about that. He's the main guy in the Broken Lizard comedy team. You know those guys. Anyway, we'll bring him in next. Ray. Yes. Fantastic job. Love you, Adam. Love you, buddy. We'll take a quick break. Back with Jay next. Jay Chandrasekhar in studio.
Probably met Jay in Super Troopers. That's probably... Which is now... Well, I'm trying to think. Super Troopers... 13 years old? It came out in 2000. 2001. Well, I meant you shot it.
It was shot in 99, yeah. Oh, you were talking about shooting it.
Chapter 8: How did Jay Chandrasekhar's background influence his career in comedy?
I did the math on shooting. Yeah, right. Yeah, I did the post-production. Yeah, correct. Jesus Christ. It's been a while. I know. And look at you. You look brand new. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Thanks. I mean, you know, the question we get asked most is when are we going to make a sequel?
And we've written a sequel and it's sort of tied up in this legal issue with Fox, which if it's settled, you know, we'll be growing the mustaches again. Yeah, it'd be nice, because everyone loves that movie. But we can only ruin it. Well, I mean, look at... But let's look at it this way. There's been some cop sequels, like Naked Gun was a cop comedy sequel.
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The first one was great, and everyone seemed to like the second one almost as much. I mean, maybe more. I don't know. I mean... Everyone loves Naked Gun. Loved the first one. And they loved the second one, too. So why not Super Troopers? I agree. I love the Naked Gun. I actually also love the TV show they did called Police Squad.
Yeah.
I watched all six of them. Six episodes. Yeah. There's that big, really tall guy with the banana. Yeah. He's got something on his cheek and half a banana fell. It was amazing. I loved it when they would go into the lab and three of the guys would walk through the doors and the other guy would walk around the set. Exactly. It would just make fun of everything there was.
Because in a regular TV show, that's what they would have. They would have a flat that would be up. They'd shoot it from the side and people would walk through the door. But obviously the fourth wall would be open. And one guy would walk around that fourth wall. There were so many jokes in those movies. And usually you get your choice between sort of corny jokes that are kind of funny but corny.
And then stuff that actually... A little more intellectual and sort of works. Those movies worked on every level.
For my money, The Naked Gun was the best of all of that huge genre of parody movies. There are some other great ones. Including Airplane? Yeah, I liked it better than Airplane. Airplane's great in one and two, but yeah, I liked it better than Airplane.
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