Harvey Levin | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What do Bill Maher and Harvey Levin talk about in the opening of the episode?
I just loved your show last week. Oh. I loved your show last week. So many people say to me, you know, I'm your biggest fan, but you really are. I really am. I really am. It's impossible to... I mean, I would love you anyway, but, like, of course, you know, especially someone like me who's been denied so much of my deserved, appropriate, you know... whatever, recognition in this industry by the mainstream establishment. I'm kind of small potatoes. Yeah, but when the smarter people appreciate what you do, it makes it, you know, and I do. I so appreciate that you appreciate it. Oh, my God. It was so good. And you do know that... constantly saying to people when they said, did you see this on some cable news?
And I'm always like, no, I get all my news from TMZ. They must go crazy. Wait a second. And they think I'm kidding. And of course, I'm not kidding. Because I gave up cable news pretty much. I still like Jake Tapper, but very few. That was a good interview, too. That was a great interview. That was a great interview. Yeah. No, he's a real newsman. But I loved seeing you on the other side of it. I used to do it all the time with Larry King. You know, I used to do it when Larry King was... I don't remember you doing that. Oh, I did it a million times. You must not have watched Larry King. I hosted for Larry. I was the guest host for a long time. You couldn't have watched it every night. I didn't watch it every night.
I must have done it... It became like what The Tonight Show was for me in the 80s. Like something I would do four or five times a year. It was a real presence. And he would always give me the full hour. He told me they always doubled, it always doubled their ratings. So that was good. They went from like a million to two million or something. Yeah. But that was like a big, I love that. It was so good. But it is so funny that I feel like I saw Sam Harris say that he recently gave up Twitter. And he was like, I did it for my psyche. And I totally understood that, even though I'm not someone who's ever been on Twitter, really. A little bit. I used to tweet until it became like, oh my God, anything fun you would say, they'd cancel you.
So what the fuck am I using this for? But the fact that he was like, I gave up Twitter and my psyche is so much better. I'm kind of that way with cable news. I am so much happier getting it from you. And I feel like you and your crew have a way. Of course, it's not the only news I get because you don't cover the kind of things I have to cover in depth. But as far as TV, yes, I read different things. But I feel like I'm getting what the broad audience of the country, because you do hit on topics that are not just celebrity stuff.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, we're like a pop culture. Yeah.
I mean, it's mostly this, the Vanderpump, whoever the fuck they are, did this or this one did this. But, you know, along the way, and then there are opinions. I mean, like we did the Alec Baldwin case today. Yeah. Right, but that's celebrity. I mean, that's
not Ukraine got a drone shot down. But you know what's interesting? It is celebrity, but there are issues that make people care about things they otherwise wouldn't care about. That
if it's
Joe Schmo, but like the Alec Baldwin case is bullshit.
It is a
bullshit. ridiculous prosecution where they're just grabbing headlines. Yes. It is outrageous
they charged him. I know. We almost always agree, which is great. Outrageous that they charged him. Well, yes. I mean, like I would just put it this way. Do you think Alec Baldwin purposely shot the cinematographer? If no, then what
are we talking about? No,
no, no,
that's not true. You can have a manslaughter case, which this is, you know, with the armorer, where somebody engages in reckless conduct and they don't intend to kill, but they can be convicted of manslaughter. So you don't have to prove
there's... I think that's ridiculous, too. No, it's not. Either it's a... What if
you get in the car drunk and you drive into... Drunk is different. No, it's not. It's still manslaughter. But that should be...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What do Bill Maher and Harvey Levin talk about in the opening of the episode?
0:01–10:14
2
How do they analyze the Alec Baldwin shooting case and its legal implications?
10:14–23:20
3
Why does Harvey’s staff think he’s older than chips and how does that reflect generational gaps at TMZ?
23:20–1:03:54
4
What is the hidden ‘fifth plane’ theory in Harvey Levin’s 9‑11 documentary?
1:03:54–1:09:56