William Shatner | Club Random w/Bill Maher
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What does Bill Maher mean by “the last acceptable prejudice”?
Some people don't get married because they don't like girls at all, and some people don't get married because they like them a lot.
Have you ever had a homosexual experience?
No. Why are you but it's early Welcome to Club Random with Bill Maher. Tonight. William Shatner. Hello. I'm gonna get out of this chair. You're not getting me anywhere. I'm gonna get out of this chair. I'm gonna get right in your chair like a ventriloquist dummy. We're gonna do an act. Look at that. You've been working out. Hey, I'm not sure. Do you work out? I don't know what you think this club random is.
Well, I'm
behind a post. Look where I am.
I'm behind a post and I got a white light and I'm looking for dancing girls and there's nobody here. No, this is a ventriloquist. This is a ventriloquist now.
Stick your hand up my ass. And then I insult the audience. You know this. I'm so flattered you're here. Thank you so much. I can't believe you are at my club random. I'm really it's I'm tickled new. It is so old, but if we we basically d h just made it what I've been partying in for twenty years. Have you really? Yeah, this when I bought this house, it was owned by a movie star. uh had video games in it. No interest to me. Uh but it was like this cool I mean you saw that door is like Yeah. Well the whole room is kind of antique. It's got a feel. Yeah, well, it feels
like cement.
But I like that because when you party here, you can't ruin it.
So what do you mean
by the party? What what happens?
What
happened
I've never been to a Hollywood party. Oh stop it. No, I I'm I'm serious. Stop it. I've never been to a Hollywood party. Is this a Hollywood party? When I w when
you were putting your hand up my ass. That was a Hollywood board. Well, that was comfortable.
But But what happens here? What what do you mean what happens? What happens here this wh
when I'm not here? This. Talking to people. I mean, are you asking me have I ever had sex in this room? Of course, it's a room. Wait, you have been to a Hollywood
party. Bill. How could you have avoided that? Bill, uh if somebody said to me, uh, I bet there's a lot of drugs in Hollywood. I would say no there's not.
Well I've
seen only That's different
than go never going to a party. I agree. I don't if someone said to me, Where do you get cocaine? I would say, I don't know, it's not nineteen eighty eight. I don't know anymore.
How about if somebody said come to the opening of This show. I'm gonna uh it's gonna be a an opening of this show. And I'm inviting a lot of people. Okay. And I would go to that thing? I wouldn't know anybody.
And the reason for this is because you're I don't know. Too good for everybody. I don't think that's the answer. Well Not too okay. Who would you rather be? Too intellectual for the Hollywood crowd. No, because I think that's what it is.
You think I'm too intellectual? I do. Well I I don't even know the crowd to be superior to.
I mean I've we you've been on the scene for around forty years. I feel like it's impossible not to know, kinda get a know knowing of who you are and you're not shy about doing something like this where we see you as you. I love I love it. Right. So it's a child. I feel like I know you a bit of well
and me
you, but I but I don't know you well enough. Right, well that's what this is for but I know you well enough we're looking for liquor as always. Uh I I know you well enough to think that that ha that's my suspicion because Ha ha you know, Truman Capote once family famously said, all actors are dumb, which is generally true. But the ones like you who are not dumb, you don't fit in with the crowd. You don't. I don't fit in with the crowd either. Neither one of us
but it's your politics that doesn't fit in with the crowd.
Well my politics fits in with people who are independent thinkers.
Or Is there a Is there a a ruling for independent thinkers? I I'm an independent thinker, so you have a ruling. I don't know. But what what I mean is people you know are not the filmmakers and the actors that uh preen themselves. You you you ride with uh uh uh uh an intellectual politically alert
uh group of people.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Bill Maher mean by “the last acceptable prejudice”?
0:02–8:29
2
How do William Shatner and Bill Maher define “bad audiences” in comedy?
8:29–17:47
3
Why do the hosts discuss the spectrum of human sexuality and its modern terminology?
17:47–25:27
4
What stories do they share about their experiences with Hollywood parties?
25:27–32:56
5
How does the conversation explore ageism as the last remaining prejudice?
32:56–42:50
6
What insights do they give about the origins and meaning of the Big Bang theory?
42:50–51:27
7
Why do they talk about the role of religion and atheism in their lives?
51:27–1:00:22
8
What final thoughts do Bill Maher and William Shatner leave listeners with?
1:00:22–1:08:46