Maher gets the MAD treatment
by digby
I have no idea how Bill Maher will take this but if MAD Magazine did a parody of me it would be the greatest tribute I could imagine. I suspect that will be true of Maher as well — he’s about my age and I would guess he grew up devouring MAD Magazine as I did. (I’ve admitted before, without shame, that it may be the greatest influence in my intellectual life.)
Here are some of the “rules”:
“Start going to a stylist. You can’t rail every week about the petroleum industry when you’ve got a quart of Quaker State in your hair.”
“Regarding marijuana, you have to either smoke up on air or shut up. We get it: you like pot. So do all your viewers — it makes it easier to watch your show.”
“You have to actually finish a monologue joke before you start to laugh at it.”
And: “You can’t make references throughout the show about how stupid and uncultured the midsection of America is — and then close the show by rattling off upcoming live appearances in the same places those ‘stupid and uncultured’ yahoos live. What does that say about your act?”