John McEnroe | Club Random with Bill Maher
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How did Bill Maher and John McEnroe first meet and start drinking together?
Can I make you a drink? Uh sure, what do you have? Well, here's a bowl of ice, so that's a story. Alright. Uh I have tequila. I don't allow myself much liquor anymore. Do you? What do you allow yourself?
You know, I'm uh the the corona pandemic things, I I think I increased uh slightly intake, not decreased. So but I from what to what? Uh you know,
just a little more of all of it. But like how many drinks would you say you average a week? A week? Uh is this gonna be your is this gonna be on anything? No, I'm sorry. This is an intervention. I'm gonna say yeah, I'm gonna say
uh fifteen to twenty. Okay. Couple a day, couple beers. Yeah. Occasional you know, tequila. I love tequila.
Okay, do you do is it did I pour tequila in there?
Was that tequila? I thought yeah, I think we
poured it. Would you you want uh try it with the this sort of thing? No, no,
no, I like it straight. Straight. With a little lime, but you know beggars can't be choosers. You
want a lime?
I don't need it. I mean I can get w I can get by without you.
Maybe we'll get one later. But um well fifteen to twenty a week. Now I used to have, I would say, thirty a week. when I was in my thirties and forties, right?
Mm-hmm.
Then around fifty You know, I was like, No. And I think I cut it down to like seven.
One a day. Well cheers good for you, man.
But
that's what you don't have anything.
Oh I will.
Okay. Well I'll wait I'll wait.
And now I I'm like three drinks a week.
Wow.
Um yeah. Because That's impressive. I don't want to look like Ted Kennedy.
Well neither do I. No,
and you don't. You're obviously handling it, which
is good. Well, I work out a lot still, you know You work out your face? Uh no, I work out in I think it helps
the
face.
No, your face looks great. Thank you. I mean, uh Tell me more. No.
Um
I told you this is not gonna go in the direction you think it is. We're gonna get to know each other as friends and that's it. Uh no, but uh 'cause we're Irish.
That's
correct. So that's Irish is not good for aging.
And I've been out in the sun all my career. Right. Yeah. So that didn't help. But but luckily I grew up in New York, so I was indoors six months a year.
If I
was Mike Douglas I'd say
Someone told me you play tennis. They used to do that on talk shows. It was oh everything was like somebody told me. Uh Johnny Carson was like some someone told me that you have a train set. That's like no the producer told me. You know that I guess they
still
do
it, right? On talk shows. I the first time I came to L LA they took me to the Mike Douglas show. He had he had he had Cal w he had Cal uh he had uh what was the guy that uh stuttered? Uh Mel Tillis. Oh. And he got like this, you know, close What? Just totally got the guy was so tight he couldn't get a word out.
Wait, this was Mike Douglas had Mel Tillis on?
Yeah, as a guess. He sang great but he couldn't tell. And you were in
the audience.
I was in the audience. And how did that and I felt sort of embarrassed for poor Mel Tillis that this guy felt the need to
do this to D do you think that there is a direct correlation between that moment and you being such a hothead in tennis? But you never really recover from that.
Um
But what did you like to blame that but d did it did it actually make an impression on you, the Mike Douglas show at that age?
It didn't make much of an impression other than that, you know, I d I didn't think a talk show host should treat the guests that way.
Well, you gotta know Boy did
you come to the wrong show. Um Oh. And how old were you at the time? I was uh
Seventeen, I think. Oh, okay. Seventeen, my first trip I think.
Right. Okay. So I grew up in New Jersey. Yeah. Oh, Queens.
Douglason, Queens, which is Long Island.
Well, let's not get excited.
No.
I mean Douglason is Queens. It's not Long Island.
But it's uh you know, it was actually a fairly nice neighborhood. Okay.
Yeah. Again, I'm not attacking your drinking. I wish it was Queens. Attacking your neighborhood, but I always thought it was in Queens. It is in Queens. Why do you it's like saying Beverly Hills adjacent. You know, no one gives a fuck.
Well, exactly. So we'll just drop it there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Bill Maher and John McEnroe first meet and start drinking together?
0:01–7:46
2
What was John McEnroe’s experience on the Mike Douglas talk‑show and how did it shape his view of audience interaction?
7:46–18:38
3
Why does John say there’s only one good linesman left in tennis and what happened to the others?
18:38–28:42
4
What percentage of police officers does John believe are good, and why does he think the rest are problematic?
28:42–38:11
5
Which historical figures made John’s “most‑hated‑man‑in‑the‑world” list and why?
38:11–48:02
6
How do Bill and John compare Donald Trump to a notorious dictator?
48:02–57:55
7
What are John’s thoughts on Joe Biden’s performance and leadership?
57:55–1:07:22
8
What text did John send to Novak Jokić about his decision at the Australian Open?
1:07:22–1:11:07