Bill warns that technology and safetyism are leading to a public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection.
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@SuzukiYNathie7 ай бұрын
New rule: that annoying guy in the audience who loudly screams "WHOOO!" is not allowed in the building anymore
@cleatusbarncoat86427 ай бұрын
He’s a plant, of course. Colbert uses them, too. Imagine those guys coming in for the interview: “…ok, let’s hear your laugh.” Pathetic.
@dirkd75107 ай бұрын
I'm looking at a career in whooting. I didn't even know this was a job until I started noticing the "Whooting" going on when Bill supposedly said something funny or meaningful. Who is Bill's Whooter and what is he getting paid? WHOOT!
@davcan187 ай бұрын
Last year it was a woman with an annoying howl.If Americans need a prompt to tell them what's funny, I can see how an orange pussy grabber could get 70 million or so people to follow and vote for him. From afar it's like watching Ali step into the ring..but the parkinsons version.
@petercrowl94677 ай бұрын
It's always been my opinion that Whoo Guy is just a rando in the audience who wants to be able to say "That's Me!" when they show people the episode they were there for.
@sirdoobiehowzer38887 ай бұрын
New rule, you don’t get to take the top comment on this video, rewrite it in a slightly different way, and then post the same comment in order to get interaction in the comment section 😂 how about that rule?
@bohemianfarm44677 ай бұрын
That one guy yelling WOO! through the whole show made me stop watching. Obnoxious
@paulclinton64147 ай бұрын
That is every episode.
@JustinCase7807 ай бұрын
Yes, I heard that his name is Richard Comehard. He's so annoying.
@martingardens7 ай бұрын
It's why I don't go to concerts anymore. He's always standing next to me, yelling and whistling in my ear.
@ivareskesner20197 ай бұрын
And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
@13RadTV7 ай бұрын
I had to switch off
@kt91667 ай бұрын
That episode of the Twilight Zone to which you refer is one of the most beautiful, and still makes me cry. The poor, frightened old woman who won't open her door to her tiny, dark basement home does so when someone she believes is a Policeman has been shot. She opens her door to Robert Redford, in one of his first roles, and makes him comfortable. They talk, and she tells him she's afraid of opening the door to Death. Aren't we all? By the end of the story, she realizes that the handsome young man is Death, but he comes, not as a monster, but as a friend, to lead her out of her dark and up into the light. We all have to get over being afraid of what might happen, and walk out into the light, where there is beauty and people. My experience is that most folks are good, nice, and friendly. Don't shut yourself in and them out. You are missing something wonderful.
@rhijulbec17 ай бұрын
@kt9166 How insightful and lovely. 💖
@patrickjenkins63837 ай бұрын
@kt9166 I totally agree with you about the Twilight Zone episode. I mean, Robert Redford at the the start of his career. Oh my! 😘
@anderseckstrand70337 ай бұрын
Sorry, I grew up on Steven Spielberg‘s “Poltergeist.” DON’T GO INTO THE LIGHT!!! 💀
@jgaulorr7 ай бұрын
Wonderful episode. Beautifully portrayed by Redford and the frightened woman. A classic that is relevant today.
@patrickjenkins63837 ай бұрын
@@anderseckstrand7033 I knew Zelda Rubenstein (Tangina Barrons, the psychic) personally. She was a real sweetheart. We worked together in a Blood Bank near downtown L.A. back in the late 1970's. 💙😘
@cherkovision7 ай бұрын
This summer I read The Secret Garden, a kids book from 1911. You know what the message was? Staying inside, being afraid of getting sick, and having a victim mentality is exactly what makes you sick. Too bad it's from before 2009, so now it's banned in Canada.
@ScottyDrake7 ай бұрын
Please do away with the "WOO HOO!" guy. After EVERY joke??? C'mon, Bill!
@13RadTV7 ай бұрын
Woo!
@tomislavmirkovic11267 ай бұрын
Stylin and profilin
@Ndizzyinthehizzy7 ай бұрын
Ric Flair doesn't work for cheap.
@sirdoobiehowzer38887 ай бұрын
Come up with an original comment. Stop repeating the top comments on a video and putting it in your own words. You have zero creativity
@espionage67 ай бұрын
He loves people who stroke his ego.
@SixSonn7 ай бұрын
Whoever the guy was yelling in the audience at every word, I hate you.
@nickc2477 ай бұрын
It's one of his writers
@bigsamdog17 ай бұрын
It's an audio blow job and it is pathetic.
@cilliansands61667 ай бұрын
Same.
@thecatdowntheroad3697 ай бұрын
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@Arfarf697 ай бұрын
@@nickc247he should be fired
@Snick39277 ай бұрын
Bill's audience ruins every show.
@belgicaconsuegra37217 ай бұрын
You’re always so right about what’s going on in this country. Kudos to you for your insightfulness and wit. 👏🏻
@anderseckstrand70337 ай бұрын
Not at all. Bill has strong opinions, but he has been factually incorrect about a lot of things. It’s not his fault, our mainstream media gets things wrong because they want to promote a certain narrative instead of actually having journalistic integrity. 🤷♂️
@nyetzdyec33917 ай бұрын
Wasn't Bill an ardent supporter of Gavin Newsome and his lockdowns? Staying home from school?
@jussiesmollet41376 ай бұрын
Was he right about the Biden administration being better than the Trump administration?
@Soulkal19797 ай бұрын
Who is the guy in the audience woo hooing and whooping away after every joke ??? Who does that
@dorismosler32497 ай бұрын
It’s a phony laugh track it’s not a real person. Bill needs it to make him seem funny. His jokes aren’t that good.
@martinreddy38235 ай бұрын
A yahoo
@izumi_KJT7 ай бұрын
Bro that one guy in the audience shouting and whooing after every joke is so fucking annoying lol
@AlchemistsTable7 ай бұрын
That's the exact intent.
@JamesCraigWhoop7 ай бұрын
I would rather be home by myself feeling lonely then be in a room full of people feeling lonely.
@sicknado7 ай бұрын
then thats weird.
@Lisa-pl6gv7 ай бұрын
I totally agree with you.
@dinobotpwnz7 ай бұрын
Not me. Many people trying to overcome their fears is better than many people submitting to them.
@geraldgarcia7777 ай бұрын
people are the worst and ruin everything. no need to have a pointless chit chat with anyone. fuck people, fuck society, live your own life. people aren't necessary to be happy.
@Lisa-pl6gv7 ай бұрын
@geraldgarcia777 Keep your circle small including only people you really trust. And even they can disappoint you at times.
@shughy17 ай бұрын
The audience sound like exactly the kind of people who give each other high fives and cheer at the end of the movie Independence Day.
@andykidd997 ай бұрын
Can you guys please ask your paid hooting and hollering plant to chill
@mariomaniac5817 ай бұрын
This is my first time seeing this, and i was thinking ''the guy ''WOO HOO!!'' ing at everything must be paid for that lmao
@colini37827 ай бұрын
Yea that’s enough of him stop that shit
@duinay37 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@nickc2477 ай бұрын
@@mariomaniac581He is paid, it's one of his writers
@thecatdowntheroad3697 ай бұрын
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@RayBetterThanEvilCanival7 ай бұрын
You’d think Bill was the funniest comedian in the entire world with the amount that one guy goes “HAHAHAHA WOOOO”
@MrOwillo7 ай бұрын
It’s Rick Flair
@christinavuyk20267 ай бұрын
I think it’s probably part of the cameraman’s contract 🤔
@maskedmarvyl47747 ай бұрын
He's a professional Woooer. He gets paid by the Woooo! I stopped counting after 25.
@ScootyPuffSr77 ай бұрын
🍷🍸🍹🍺
@ivareskesner20197 ай бұрын
And the most disappointing thing is that this is all scripted. They are told when and how loud to laugh, clap etc...granted that particular one has probably taken a bit of a liberty and decided he'll be the loudest one...but that is something the producers could get rid of in a heartbeat if the wanted to. The only reason for this noise to exist is because they want it to exist. That is the puzzling part. It feels like they think it imbibes the whole thing with street cred and brings the people closer to the panel if they can hear other people near there. _'we are with the people, we are not removed'_ kind of feeling they're going for, I think.
@CharlesGholsonAllen7 ай бұрын
Bill obviously has the best paid warm up comedian in the business. The guy whoops and hollers for Bill even inhaling. Baby got bills!😂
@sabbracadabra83677 ай бұрын
HA HA HA HA WOOOO!!! HAA HAAHAAAAAAA
@nealmceneaney37717 ай бұрын
It’s the audience. They completely ruin these things
@daviddadachamp8237 ай бұрын
His paid laugh track is getting out of hand.
@scarpfish7 ай бұрын
So is the comments section peanut gallery who keeps complaining about it like it's the highlight of their week.
@AndyAcker7 ай бұрын
HAHAHA WOOOOOOHHHOOOOOO!!!!!!
@junkboxxxxxx7 ай бұрын
Not paid, free tickets and no catering. I went in 2016
@sheber67137 ай бұрын
Nothing cures loneliness faster than a Minister of Loneliness.
@garymathe98637 ай бұрын
I wonder if the minister has a hands-on approach to help citizens with their loneliness.
@mikerossi61787 ай бұрын
I think it was his crew members or a bunch of military guys.😂. Was really annoying though.
@Taco_RaiderАй бұрын
I need a Minister of Flatulence
@gerardbyrnes57807 ай бұрын
Bill, I live in a lower income working class neighborhood. Kids are all over the place playing outside. Bicycles and tree climbing, mild vandalism... all are much more common than iPads and ear buds. You look at the world through suburbanite glasses.. Sorry about the world you choose to live in, we're doing just fine, thanks. It's good, though, because it makes me optimistic about that old prediction: "The meek shall inherit the earth" So, y'all just carry on, and good luck to you!
@DeanRegy7 ай бұрын
Can that guy in the crowd be quiet? Jesus!
@Cletus_the_Elder7 ай бұрын
With the hoot-n-hollering in the audience, you would think this was Bill's roadhouse set.
@scarpfish7 ай бұрын
With the bitch-n-moaning in the comments section about the audience, you know damn well those making such comments failed to find sunlight, much less a more constructive hobby during the writer's strike.
@Cletus_the_Elder7 ай бұрын
@@scarpfish sunlight is for gays and their parades
@jlev10287 ай бұрын
@@scarpfishWith your drinking-n-consooming, you would think better than to disregard criticism, especially when many of those striking writers you mentioned are hacks.
@HeatherMajors7 ай бұрын
What Bill says about dying any way but unnoticed is spot on. Someone I knew cut themselves off so much that it was almost a month before they were found and only because the landlord called in a wellness check to the police. No one should go out like that.
@solomongrundy14677 ай бұрын
I'll probably go out like that unless it happens in public around other people. I'll be in the house rotting until the landlord doesn't get their rent and sends someone to check on me.
@EyeSeeThruYouАй бұрын
That'll be me, or out working in an environmental preserve. A month might go by...maybe more. It's not loneliness. It's just me happier outside and around other species.
@MICHAEL-vy3ch7 ай бұрын
It is funny because I am the guy who never really wanted to be around people in the first place to the point of being anti-social, but always observed my social graces in public. Now, I am the guy who "stands too close" in the checkout line, makes people uncomfortable in a theater because I only left one empty seat between me and people I don't know instead of two empty seats, and who doesn't "mind his own business" (actually got said to me by a lady) when I returned a child's toy that had bounced away from them in a restaurant. I'm doing exactly the same things I've done for 35 years.
@AdrianColley7 ай бұрын
The guy who keeps singing WOO! can be the first to be sent to play outside. Every week, while the show is being made.
@nottelling48287 ай бұрын
5:10 😗
@GGoAwayy7 ай бұрын
Very very performative woo-ing
@kevinmaddog30647 ай бұрын
Woohoo 🙌
@byucatch227 ай бұрын
is he a regular? I haven't heard him before but I'm not a regular watcher. Dude was definitely annoying though - cheering as if Maher was sinking 3's in the championship basketball game.
@sabbracadabra83677 ай бұрын
@@byucatch22 Every episode for about a year or more. I unsubscribed.
@glenncross9567 ай бұрын
The applause and laughter are absurd.
@13RadTV7 ай бұрын
Woo!!
@forman2087 ай бұрын
SO obnoxious. I wish he'd get an AI audience.
@GGoAwayy7 ай бұрын
If the audience doesnt do it, Bill berates them and it feels even more uncomfortable.
@Markus_Andrew7 ай бұрын
I live in rural Australia - now. I used to be a "city slicker", but I moved to the country about 15 years ago and never looked back. I know the names of all the local shopkeepers, tradespeople and delivery folks, and they know mine. I chat with my neighbours over the fence. I swap hellos with people I pass in the street, even if we don't know each other. And yet I am - or was - by nature, an _introvert._ Whether this is the same in rural USA, I don't know. But it seems to me that isolation is more of a problem in the cities than it is in the country. It's paradoxical that the more people are concentrated together in large numbers, the more they want to distance themselves from one another.
@sofiasininen82684 ай бұрын
You still sound isolated. I also chat with the shopkeeper sometimes, or with the neighbour in the elevator out of desperation, but that doesn't ease my lonliness even a bit.
@JackieAprilesr7 ай бұрын
I'm a 24-year-old heterosexual man and I've been following Bill Maher since I was 14 years old. I was always a very awkward and introverted young man and quite frankly I was and still am a late bloomer. When COVID-19 occurred I was a 20-year-old who was too shy to talk to girls, but I was making real progress and was starting to get out of my shell. Then COVID-19 happened and I regressed back into my childhood shyness and dug myself a mental hole over the year and a half of COVID that I still haven't been able to climb out of. I got addicted to the internet and didn't know how to talk to people. I want to go out and meet people but I have no idea where to go and when I do go places there are rarely any available women (at least so far that's the case). I tried dating sites but those don't work for me and I'm stuck in a crappy job at a pizza place. I'm working on myself and while I appreciate Bill talking about isolation and struggling young men, I think he should have a young man like me on his show to talk about the problem directly with him. I may be Generation z, but in many ways, I feel that I am an old soul and a boomer at heart.
@lukegrant95697 ай бұрын
You're right, it's way harder to meet people, but it's possible. The more you go out the more you increase your odds. When I had anxiety over talking to women I started very small. First it was learning to talk to anybody. Every time you go to the grocery store, talk to the cashier, never go to self checkout. Use this as a test to see if you can have a natural and fun conversation. If you fail, no one cares. I don't drink coffee, but I would go to coffee shops just to practice talking to people in line, asking them what they like. Be respectful, take genuine interest in what the other person is saying, and don't try to GET anything from the other person. Do it just to enjoy the conversation. When we are happy and healthy we attract people who have a similar vibe.
@_mnl_7 ай бұрын
I kind of felt that way too. Latter half of 2010s I was getting way better with socialization, making friends, finally felt like I was getting out of my shell. COVID brought me back to square 1.
@lukegrant95697 ай бұрын
Also, unrelated, but consider applying to more jobs. And do it IN PERSON. You would be surprised how many jobs just require someone who has basic intelligence, is responsible, and will put in the hours to do a good job. Just walk into places and ask if you can talk to a manager and ask if they are hiring. Literally no one does this, and if you can convince someone you have integrity and work ethic, it greatly improves your chances. You may get 100 no's, but 1 yes will sets you up with a job with better pay where you can advance.
@XEinstein7 ай бұрын
Even though I was and am anything but introvert, I was always and still am very shy with women. I had my first serious girlfriend when I was one year older then your current age. Now I'm 43, married and with a wonderful boy almost turning 2.
@FreeminderXIII7 ай бұрын
I thought that's what bars for... try to get drunk lol
@kevincgrabb7 ай бұрын
Crowd applause and cheering are mixed WAY too high.
@sirdoobiehowzer38887 ай бұрын
Unoriginal comment, think for yourself, stop copying the top comments on a video. Cringe.
@ddoppster7 ай бұрын
Seemed the same as when I went to the taping, have you been, at all?
@ddoppster7 ай бұрын
Outside the couple hyper-caffeinated 'whoopers'
@nickc2477 ай бұрын
Annoying
@lilblondiebear7 ай бұрын
I know it. I swear it's the same asshole every time
@forman2087 ай бұрын
Loneliness has been a problem in modern society for decades. Taxi Driver came out almost 50 years ago and it's main theme is the loneliness the character experiences. The harsh truth is we live in an incredibly lonely and disconnected society, where the majority of people just go to work, or even work remotely, then come home to watch tv or go on the internet. After you leave school there is simply no real social structure in place, outside of work, to make friends and meet new people. I've lived in multiple places over the years and have literally never spoken to any of my neighbors. There's no sense of community in our society, you're just surrounded by strangers all doing your own thing.
@jamesmack33147 ай бұрын
I am in total agreement with you, but it wasn’t always like that. I think really the invention of the Internet and especially the smart phone has been the main culprit. I grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s before the Internet and people were just a lot more friendly and open and approachable. Now everybody’s paranoid and defensive and suspicious of everything because all we hear is negative news constantly it’s really a plague, no one wants to really deal with anybody anymore. The worlds become too difficult and stressful too much noise and confusion so we all retreat into our own little cocoons. The art of avoidance has taken over.
@curbozerboomer17737 ай бұрын
I think there is now, an underlying fear of the consequences of getting friendly with people!...Will this person somehow take advantage of me?...will he/she want to fool around with my spouse?...Will their friends break into my home?.......I mean, we see bad stuff on the local news, and then watch"Forensic Files"....We feel vulnerable to being exploited, etc. I am old now, and I certainly am guilty of feeling that way!
@jamesmack33147 ай бұрын
@@curbozerboomer1773 what you are describing is simply paranoia and fear being rampant in your life, and it basically limit your ability to experience people, you’re limiting yourself big time via unnecessary worry
@cpthornman7 ай бұрын
The social contract is breaking down. Us millennials will probably see this country collapse in our lifetimes.
@sweett21857 ай бұрын
@@cpthornman I certainly hope not.
@3abxo3907 ай бұрын
As someone who moved to the States in *his* mid-20s, I can confirm that connecting with people has been extremely difficult.
@jillhsales49587 ай бұрын
as cheesy as this sounds, you’re not alone. really… he just confirmed it. it is super difficult. i also suffer from this. recently divorced & a single mother. i don’t even know how to be now days. all i can say is, it gets harder as you get older. you’re young & able to have a social life. so take a chance, go outside & say hi. if you don’t connect with someone maybe you’ll connect with nature🖤
@pbajnow7 ай бұрын
I lost interest 55 years ago. Not a problem. I have not killed anyone or developed addictions. My blood pressure is still OK. I look at connections as incidental rather than a significant outcome. Just like happiness; if you strive for it, it is elusive.
@seanwickham89057 ай бұрын
Everyone wants to connect, but in the end, we all assume everyone is a serial killer.
@clearsight6557 ай бұрын
@@seanwickham8905 good point. Somehow everyone looks as if they cannot be trusted with anything. It's probably because they also think the same about you.
@forman2083 ай бұрын
Why did you bold "his"
@DorothyNylund7 ай бұрын
Every once in awhile, there is some new "pun" to make me smile. Its been a long time between. But whoever coined the term "The Lone Danger" thank you
@mark001stj7 ай бұрын
How about A.I. artificial insemination ,,, please like... I need approval.
@yzolakitchi7 ай бұрын
One of the best pieces of advice my friend gave me after she had relocated to a new town and heard I was going to be moving elsewhere too, is to start by fostering interactions with 'familiar strangers'. These are people you see regularly enough to say hello to or make small talk, but are unlikely to become actual friends with. People you see at certain times of the day - eg waiting for a bus, walking their dog. After a while, you may give each other a nod of recognition, a smile or comment on the weather. She also picked a local newsagent and every Monday and Friday bought the same specific items so the shop assistant started to notice and would give a smile, maybe a brief chat too. It sounds dumb, but she had such social anxiety and knew I was the same. Going to the same coffee shop or park at a regular day/time can help in a small way with loneliness, or the dreaded - jeeze, I haven't spoken to a single person in three days realisation. Weather, traffic, celebrity gossip, even overhearing a conversation ahead of you in a checkout line and commenting when it is your turn to be served, can stave off the horrific weight of disconnection that surges within us from time to time. Ask a checkout person if they have tried an item of food you are buying or comment on how busy or quiet the shop is - and as much as possible- go through a checkout with a real person. None of these actions are ones I find easy, but I try and force myself to engage in some kind of small talk whenever I go into town. Living alone, yep, it's easy and far more preferable to keep closed in. More so when going out is expensive/unaffordable. Hope this helps someone.
@js-933087 ай бұрын
I think this is such a great comment!! I agree 💯%. I was lucky enough to have a Dad who could strike up a conversation with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Super embarrassing when I was a kid, but now as an adult I'm the same way and I see how important it is to connect with other people in exactly the way you described. Sometimes it's just a comment about how long the line is at the grocery store, or how much you both hate self-checkout lol! Other times it's resulted in some really funny stories. I was on vacation once halfway across the world and I saw two women taking pictures at a famous landmark. I asked, would you like me to take a picture of you two together? Turns out one of the women grew up directly across the street in the 60's from where I live today...bizarre. I found after COVID and lockdown is that I make an effort to be nicer in every interaction...it really helps me when I'm having a bad day Again, awesome comment...Thanks! 😄
@yzolakitchi7 ай бұрын
@@js-93308 Bless you. Your dad sounds like mine 😁How freaky about meeting someone from your home town so far away. One of my favourite recollections is when I was temp working at a museum. I'd only done a few shifts and the fire alarm went off. A crowd of us huddled outside and a man next to me smiled and said he was glad as he'd been researching in their library for too long and needed a break. I asked what he was researching and it was medical sociology which I'd no clue about. It sounded fascinating so I looked into it and ended up doing a (non-medical) Sociology degree which I greatly enjoyed, instead of taking Drama which I'd been hesitating about. You really never know where a five min chat with a stranger may lead 😁
@js-933087 ай бұрын
@@yzolakitchi Wow! That's a great story and so true! Your life trajectory can change in an instant because of one random event & one random encounter. Sociology sounds fascinating... I've always been really interested in human behavior. I Love KZfaq, there is so much rich content. The Huberman lab is my favorite. I've have one more funny story... I met one of my dearest friends in a thunderstorm at the beach... I was determined to make it back to my car on my rollerblades and he screamed something to the effect...Are you crazy, get over here, you're going to get hit by lightning! I listened and ducked for cover too, that was almost 30 years ago... Life can be very interesting when you keep your eyes open 😀
@sofiasininen82684 ай бұрын
This doesn't help anyone, what we need is deep, meaningful relationships with people who love us and who we love. Smalltalk not gonna help with that.
@yzolakitchi4 ай бұрын
@@sofiasininen8268 yes, absolutely. This is a jumping off point for people with social anxiety, introverts or limited support networks. Meaningful relationships are always the goal but not achievable for many. It has long been known that going days without talking to another person is detrimental to mental wellbeing and can exacerbate existing mental health conditions. These tips are to help with that and can absolutely provide some comfort and mental stability. But as you say, they are no substitute for deeper, loving connection and aren't meant to be. Some days though, baby steps are all we can manage. 😌 Hope that clarified my previous comment. 🥰
@tjdomerny48477 ай бұрын
worst audience in television. they just want to hear themselves guffawing with their fake "laughter"
@JustinCase7807 ай бұрын
Haha yep...the one guy loud laugher in every segment tonight is either a staged duck or a random total goofball.
@paulclinton64147 ай бұрын
Bill hasn't been funny in a decade. Bunch of grumpy Boomers.
@Kleavers7 ай бұрын
The audience in this episode has been so obnoxious, I don't even feel like laughing when Bill actually tells a good joke.
@mattcarberry3687 ай бұрын
yeah turn down the volume on that fucking audience lol jesus christ that's annoying i either can't hear what Bill is saying or i get my eardrums blown out every 15 seconds
@notthestatusquo76837 ай бұрын
He's always had the worst audience. God I wish whoever works on the audio on this show would point the mics away from them at least.
@jeffs60907 ай бұрын
Plus the constant applause after every statement made is annoying. Every episode, I say multiple times to let them finish their thought. There would be a lot more content given if the panel weren't interrupted every minute. I liked it better during the pandemic where there wasn't the obnoxious audience.
@Kleavers7 ай бұрын
@@jeffs6090 All late night shows benefited a lot from having no audience. The Daily Show experiemented with no audience even after, but I think they're back now.
@carollund82517 ай бұрын
I can't listen to it, it is so annoying. Bill' audiences are the absolute worst. They whoop at everything and contradict their own whoops. I often just turn off the sound and watch with subtitles.
@pitbull74407 ай бұрын
"Overreaction" is a word used to describe covid by people who didnt work in healthcare at the time. It was awful. The lockdowns were terrible, but had there been more transmission, the hospitals like the one i worked at would have been completely overrun and deaths would have skyrocketed.
@Big_munki7 ай бұрын
That was so clear (and I don't even work in health care). I lose respect for Bill's thinking skills when he whines immaturely since he doesn't acknowledge the alternative scenario. It''s very self-righteous. In the acute phase lots were dying weekly and what had to be done had to be done. Over time as the pandemic progressed not everything was done perfectly but nothing ever is
@damico67 ай бұрын
On my daily morning dog walk, I pass a bus stop for kids going to junior high. There's about a dozen kids there and even though they are surrounded by other kids the same age, having many of the same interests; listening to the same music, watching the same Internet, so much in common, not one of them ever looks up from their phone. I have never seen a one of them talking with the kids standing right next to them.
@gratefuljr7 ай бұрын
And yet I’m on my phone stoned watching bill maher
@dthomas92307 ай бұрын
Laptops at home work fine for the same show.
@christinavuyk20267 ай бұрын
Me too 😂
@scarpfish7 ай бұрын
Well at least you bothered to stone yourself first.
@copykinetics40517 ай бұрын
Lol
@fernrob20067 ай бұрын
Stoned watching on firestick here lol
@jsbrinley7 ай бұрын
Who is the annoying audience member who WHOOOoos more than Rick Flair?
@ameyagokhale51237 ай бұрын
Exactly
@redmondrecords21967 ай бұрын
it's hilarious Woooo!
@edaudioАй бұрын
Haha
@jraelien57984 ай бұрын
This video makes me never want to speak to another human ever again. Sounds freaking great.
@gsmith73096 ай бұрын
The only upside to loneliness is no drama to deal with😊
@donwinslow28033 ай бұрын
Try to remember that when you are feeling lonely.
@gsmith73093 ай бұрын
@@donwinslow2803 I never think about it to be honest with you
@lopresti45597 ай бұрын
I wud rather be alone than around the wrong ppl.
@curbozerboomer17737 ай бұрын
Like I mentioned earlier...there is now a lack of trust in our society.
@youssef168447 ай бұрын
This. I'm done with so-called "friends" who expect me to always initiate contact to hang out. And then when you actually hang out, they use you as a therapist to complain about their wife and kids. Better alone than with these type of people.
@lopresti45597 ай бұрын
@@youssef16844 it's called- Selfish. 🤗
@lopresti45597 ай бұрын
@@curbozerboomer1773 there is coldness and selfishness in our society more.
@mroctober36577 ай бұрын
Do they bring back that same laughing audience member every week?
@bitterbreeze7 ай бұрын
Yeah. A paid whoo
@JustinCase7807 ай бұрын
He's a regular named Richard Tool.
@theenglishcircus37837 ай бұрын
My guess is it’s someone on staff. But yeah, super annoying…
@TheRedGameboy7 ай бұрын
Going out isn't the solution if everyone else around is unwilling to socialize. I went to a standup comedy show alone, and not much bonding can occur while talking to couples necking or chatting quietly among each other. I passed out the event info to everyone I knew last week, that might go. Only had one person available & interested. He took ages to respond to messages, got distracted, and wouldn't fully read my messages when I gave more info for things like parking prices, and ticket options. Night of the event, he acted like he was gonna go, then cuddled with his GF at her place, and passed out til it was too late. I was holding a seat for nothing and gave it up eventually when I got wifi and he explained how he fucked up. I wasn't enjoying all the tobacco and weed smokers in line. Going out involves dealing with assholes, so society doesn't make it appealing for lonely ppl that are willing to reach out. And random chit chat doesn't matter if it doesn't lead to exchanged numbers and eventual fostered bonds. It's like pulling teeth to make that happen.
@BigWickTraders7 ай бұрын
The haha guy is on every show. He’s their hired laugh box. He queues the audience. It is something I really hope they realize is ridiculous and that everyone can tell.
@gargleoil83227 ай бұрын
The irony of this is how many people would rather be lonely than listen to some guy yelling HA HA HA HAAAAAA WHOOOOO at 34 decibels every 8 seconds
@maarten11157 ай бұрын
Way more than 34 decibels.
@blackthornsloe80497 ай бұрын
I love staying home . Love it . A good book , a cup of tea ....
@jamesmack33147 ай бұрын
You must be British
@prodigalpriest7 ай бұрын
Because they love tea or reading books? 🙄 I'm an American and I happen to like reading books and drinking tea. I also like cappuccino in the morning with my toasted bagel.🤷♂️
@equisde80267 ай бұрын
is it beneficial for you in the long run though?
@youssef168447 ай бұрын
@@equisde8026Yes because most people are selfish trash.
@kman207 ай бұрын
@@equisde8026yes
@soulitaryconfinement5167 ай бұрын
There is nothing wrong with people who are reserved and likes to be alone. They are called introverts. Doesn't mean that they are lonely. I'm just saying that there is big difference between lonely and alone.
@dannypuckett75567 ай бұрын
It's great to hear someone that has a good handle on reality now and then
@KevinCovington54537 ай бұрын
I have absolutely QUIT going out for ANY REASON. Everything Is Delivered and I don't even see or speak to them. EVERY TIME and I mean EVERY. TIME. I go to a store for something? I GET TREATED LIKE I AM AN INTERUPTION IN THEIR DAY! Today while I was digging for my debit card, I was told I could not sit in the SUBWAY SANDWICH SHOP AT WALMART On 1923 East Kearny Street In Springfield MO UNLESS I WAS THERE TO BUY SOMETHING! I am a recent heart patient and had sat down to catch my breath and to look for my debt card, The Turkey Sandwich was SEVENTEEN DOLLARS!!! I walked Away and Left It There. PEOPLE ARE BEING SO DAMN MEAN! I HATE HAVING TO LEAVE MY HOME!
@mykingdomforak97 ай бұрын
Consider advising folks about your recent health malady/condition, please. ❤️🩹 You will garner sympathy, most certainly, and Don't give up, hope❣️ There are many good helpers out there. 🥰 Your luck will turn back to you. 🍀 Be patient. 🙂 Be Fonzie Cool. 👍👍. Keep Calm, always. 💖
@tonygill45777 ай бұрын
That Woooo! Guy lmao
@nottelling48287 ай бұрын
This forum: 10% replies about the subject content 20% about Bill 70% about the loud guy in the audience
@raymondluth60587 ай бұрын
Bill had some strong points but calling it an over reaction to Covid killed his argument. He comes off as an old man yelling back in my day
@july95667 ай бұрын
People are definitely a lot more aggressive as well . Went to a bar a few months back in Long Island and haven’t gone back since , the vibe is just off ..
@alainarchambault23317 ай бұрын
Personally, I can't wait till I retire so that I can isolate even more.
@CZAR-7 ай бұрын
I'm already there and because I am a person who have to be always doing something I thought it would be hard however, I have so much peace and tranquility in my life I do not want to go back to work. No deadlines to meet, no boss nagging me why I am not making my time commitments. The most stressful part of my day is making a decision on what I'm going to cook for dinner. Even though I thought I would go back to work.
@equisde80267 ай бұрын
u're part of the problem them ain't u
@antoniobanderas78107 ай бұрын
That one guy the studio paid to say WOOOO needs to be isolated and lonely!!
@ziggyustar31377 ай бұрын
BIll spilling truth that's the Bill we love
@lennonvonweller95437 ай бұрын
I don’t know who that one guy that always laughs the loudest on all of these videos but it is proper cringe. The jokes are funny and - most of the time - hit the right points. I don’t need canned applause.
@traviselrod78037 ай бұрын
My kids are young, with exception of rare plane rides, my kids do not use phones or iPads. I have seen so many kids at restaurants and grocery stores glued to their phones not engaging. Sure, my kids are more trouble now because they are not as quiet as a kid on a phone. But we hope it pays off later. You know what my older kid loves to do? Read.
@PCtransplant7 ай бұрын
"...with exception of rare plane rides..."? Do you feel better after posting this obvious nonsense? Suffering from too much social media much?
@MarcoBonechi7 ай бұрын
Yes, but then to be social you need something in common with others. If nobody else reads, and they all play videogames, non friends. Balance. It's the only way. Everything, just in moderation.
@traviselrod78037 ай бұрын
@@PCtransplant I’m not sure what you’re point is. I’m just being honest. If I said my kids never use iPads, that wouldn’t be true.
@traviselrod78037 ай бұрын
@@MarcoBonechi You’re not entirely wrong. And my kids won’t hit 18 without exposure to these things. They have to be able to regulate these things before they become adults. But their brains develop so much at an early age. And I’m not sacrificing my kids brains for convenience.
@c.l.montoya29727 ай бұрын
When parents let their kids spend more time on the mind numbing smart phone, rather than with a book, they must accept the price to pay for unintended consequences they inflict upon their children. Kudos to your older kid for the love of reading. Best way to prep a developing brain.🤔
@mariannefinkel7 ай бұрын
I can feel more lonely in a room full of people sometimes
@400medley21 күн бұрын
The "WHOOO!" guy was spot on for the 6pac and box of condoms joke.
@alex35agm7 ай бұрын
Meanwhile I am listening to this on my phone,alone after waiting all day for Amazon to deliver stuff.
@firstlast82587 ай бұрын
Crapazon
@rodb94927 ай бұрын
A huge amount of good common sense in this one. Personally, I think the terms "mental illness" and "depression" are overworked and applied far too freely. What we used to call "bored" or "feeling lonely" are now right up there with acute depression and mental illness. When I was a kid we could be happy with a single toy and being on our own. Not now. Secondly, I think AI is almost certainly the greatest threat to human civilisation ever! Whatever humankind invents, however good or well-intentioned, there are those malevolent individuals, organisations and countries that will subvert it - with criminal intent. We should be VERY wary of it.
@janncoons74457 ай бұрын
I'm going to call this one the State of the Union. It's the absolute truth without the gaslighting
@Wolverines777 ай бұрын
I have tried to go out and make friends ever since becoming disabled 8 years ago. Even when I found someone willing to talk, about 80% of those were akin to conversing with a 5th grader...
@QED_7 ай бұрын
And 5th grade education . . . isn't half of what it used to be.
@svtinker7 ай бұрын
What passes for knowledge has been driven by politics, media, and industry for decades- academia collateral damage.
@fremontpathfinder84637 ай бұрын
It's different in Canada. I drove up on a road trip last year and within 30 minutes of being in Creston, was in a long conversation with someone at a Fish and Chips place. People look up and smile at you. I am going back in November. I am sick of the USA. Where I live, we have traffic deaths every other day because of crazy drivers.
@charliegolden79237 ай бұрын
@@QED_the problem is the educated demos let everything go which cost more money than the idiot republican can afford. Answer is money cares nothing about America just stupid policies. The dumb idiots are more educated tan the 22 year old who is protesting. And is ok with killing babies. Demo world is pretty shitty
@lisarodriguez69667 ай бұрын
I'm curious, where is it that you're/you were having these interactions?
@209bornandbred7 ай бұрын
Does Bill give his audience free drinks and lines of cocaine before the show goes in the air? Their hooting and clapping after every sentence like drunks at a tailgate for a last place NFL team is becoming unbearable
@musicexpert27 ай бұрын
It's all one guy! Ric Flair according to someone above.
@anderseckstrand70337 ай бұрын
Ric Flair gon go “WOO” on a bich! 🤣
@redaurora4me7 ай бұрын
Wow how right are you Bill.
@fperkin27 ай бұрын
I work from home, have a peloton in my office, and wouldn't have it any other way. I love working at home by myself.
@doctorbeanis7 ай бұрын
Pretty sure cell phones might have something to do with those huge increases in road crashes...
@MikeBarbarossa7 ай бұрын
That screen and the screen your car now has is also distracting drivers
@innernouter7 ай бұрын
Serious quesion: I wonder how much the loud laughers get paid per show. My guess is $150-$300 or maybe they are considered actors and they have to pay them scale? I dont really know how any of that works.
@hishamdahud7 ай бұрын
Bill having an “audience” of his own staff is just embarrassing. It has made his show unwatchable.
@ken-mb5cp7 ай бұрын
This should be renamed “Sad But True.” For the record: I love you all.
@Calabrin17 ай бұрын
With this monologue, Bill, your transformation into Andy Rooney is complete.
@shanesawyer51037 ай бұрын
Lol. It’s the truth.
@EvesRevenge7 ай бұрын
Nice. I remember Mr Eyebrows, at the end of 60 Minutes…
@sawtooth8087 ай бұрын
More like Dennis Miller….with better joke writers
@vilstef69887 ай бұрын
I'm just mild about Bill. Barely cracked a smile on this. The world is not funny and Bill has become the unfunny poster boy.
@coolraul077 ай бұрын
[Palpatine voice] "Good... goooooood. Let the butthurt flow through you..."
@Silentsilo9877 ай бұрын
Life is quickly turning into an episode of Black Mirror.
@awalton90247 ай бұрын
That horse is long gone and that barn door has been nailed shut. Black mirror wasn't a look into the future, it was a reaction to what has already happened.
@joliecide7 ай бұрын
That's coz when the tech industry watches that show, they get Nutty ideas.
@davidcat14557 ай бұрын
Or Blackadder
@nealrobinson56657 ай бұрын
@@awalton90240:15 😮😊
@gamerwits43297 ай бұрын
only in western civilization, in the far east we are fine.
@shawncdonnelly7 ай бұрын
Preach, Bill, preach!
@btimec52907 ай бұрын
Tech is mainly to blame. I totally agree, we truly have anti-social media. It dominates.
@ceofounder7 ай бұрын
Bill Maher! New Rule, Real Time awesomeness!
@WTFG787 ай бұрын
@1:39 "And even when we do go out, the earbuds stay in". Goodness, don't tell Bill about this new invention called the Walkman. It's due to come out in 1979. People have been listening to the radio, or a cassette, or a CD, or an MP3, or an audio stream for decades. I'd rather listen to my favorite music on the train to work or a plane to a vacation instead of someone screaming into their phone or a kid crying. And if someone is trying to talk to me on the train, my shoes better be untied or some part of me is on fire because no one is that much of a social butterfly to strike up a conversation with a total stranger.
@forman2087 ай бұрын
People always complain about phones, but before phones we had iPods, newspapers and magazines to keep us entertained and occupied instead. I'm 100% in agreement with you, why the fuck would I NOT wear my earbuds when I'm doing some task like taking the train, at the grocery store, in a waiting room, so I can sit in silence next to strangers? No thanks lol.
@kevincorcoran64937 ай бұрын
@@forman208 but you didn't have Facebook or Instagram that one constantly checks to see if they get likes
@bettyjones1137 ай бұрын
I converse with strangers. Learn stuff. Smile. Before 1979, maybe I conversed with voices in my head. Still don’t have buds stuck in my ears
@ferbmaniac18197 ай бұрын
Bill, for God's sake, the audience needs to go. 😡😡😡😡😡
@lrose17667 ай бұрын
Loved the irony of watching this on my phone! Great performance art. Get off my phone Bill!
@jopo79967 ай бұрын
Hopefully Bankman-Fried's jail has a better barber.
@firstlast82587 ай бұрын
Hope is not a plan
@professorakiba4347 ай бұрын
In Japan, the people Bill Maher describes are called shut-ins. Their lives revolve around home. Well, I am one of these people who kind of sees himself as a shut-in and I don't feel lonely. I am always busy. I am always doing something. I love being home. Home is where my heart is and I am by myself. Single. I cherish being single and by myself. I don't seek AI girlfriends. I don't go out much and on this I would agree, I should get out more. But I really enjoy the warmth of home. Why is that so bad?
@toh62617 ай бұрын
Home is where you hang your self.
@jamesmack33147 ай бұрын
Well, the bottom line is if you’re happy then that’s what matters the most although social isolation is probably not a healthy way to live. Some people just aren’t good at being social, or just don’t want to
@bettyjones1137 ай бұрын
Why do you let people tell you that you need to get out more? If YOU feel you need to get out today,go. If you are content at home, stay. Make the decision each day for that day. Happily at home. Yesterday, full day out to parks on Whidbey Island and then 3 course meal in 3 different restaurants (1 course per restaurant) with 2 friends. Today viewing solar eclipse. Last week solitude except for dental cleaning and walking. Just be whatever and however is contentment for you
@bettyjones1137 ай бұрын
Don’t SHOULD on yourself. Number one rule in contentment
@BlackShani7 ай бұрын
look up the words "cowardly" and "lazy" in the dictionary
@MArkGilfach5 ай бұрын
Wise words from Bill. 👍
@sharonmassey29237 ай бұрын
"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal, French philosopher
@Alexa-Raine7 ай бұрын
It's a dam good thing that phones and the internet fix that issue. 🤦♀️ People are lonely because "socializing" COSTS HALF YOUR RENT! Name 1 free thing friends can do THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE THE INTERNET!(the cheapest entertainment by far)
@sharonmassey29237 ай бұрын
@@Alexa-Raine I don't know. What did people do for thousands of years before the internet?
@Alexa-Raine7 ай бұрын
@@sharonmassey2923 you mean before late stage capitalism? 😂
@sharonmassey29237 ай бұрын
@@Alexa-Raine One thing I learned from pandemic lockdowns is that the company of other people is highly overrated.
@johnnyvaughan3367 ай бұрын
When can AI replace congress
@awalton90247 ай бұрын
You present one hell of a strange loop. We have to figure out how to make AI really, really stupid, negating the reason for it's existing....but then just like congress it has to learn to be even stupider yet but that's the opposite of learning. And it just get's more bizarre the more one thinks about it.
@deconry7 ай бұрын
Hopefully SOON. Politics is a joke....no a tragedy bordering on pathological misconduct.
@liannebedard55217 ай бұрын
I have a cat who could govern more effectively than the GOP contingent in the House. My neighbor’s dog was approached to run for Speaker…but he bit the chihuahua who suggested it..
@richardmixon81777 ай бұрын
Soon
@adampark93377 ай бұрын
Ok? For real
@Fergit_7 ай бұрын
Bill Maher: says anything The one guy in the audience: WOO
@casard52353 ай бұрын
'... go play outside.' Words of wisdom 😊
@johnbicknell85127 ай бұрын
😅 This was really spot on !
@jayli537 ай бұрын
Reminds me of one course I took in college - new media. I remember the professor making the argument we were becoming ‘cyborgs’ as phones had become an extension of ourselves. Somewhat hard for me to appreciate at the time, now I look back and see the foreshadowing. That was 10 years ago!
@helletenbrix96147 ай бұрын
People are considering me prehistoric bc I don't have a cell phone.Duh, I have a landline and work from home, what's the point?
@Markus_Andrew7 ай бұрын
@@helletenbrix9614 I hear you. I have a smartphone, but I don't live on it. More often than not, it runs out of charge before I use it. I'm sure youngies would call me a dinosaur "boomer", but I'm a dinosaur boomer with an active social life - that is, an actual face-to-face social life, not a nebulous bunch of crypto-friends on social media who I would probably avoid like the plague in real life.
@noli.me.tangere7 ай бұрын
Most of the people I've met who are always looking at their phone, I call them phony's, seems like they're an extension of their phones, not the other way around.
@adharshraghavan28937 ай бұрын
New rule: Jokes have to be funny for people to laugh
@hereigoagain50507 ай бұрын
I'm not isolated. I rant and rave when I watch Bill rant and rave. Sometimes he rants and raves to my rants and raves. Life is good :)
@batgurrl7 ай бұрын
Yes, there’s an A.I. Jodie Forster now. Bill, this was so on point that i could hardly laugh. Your reference to the movie ‘Her’ was so apt
@landor76107 ай бұрын
That movie was so Fn bad. I remember in the 90's there was a PC program for little strippers that would dance in the corner of the screen.
@adamhill41417 ай бұрын
My mother would lock me outside, I had ring the doorbell and ask to come back inside
@firstlast82587 ай бұрын
Mother dearest
@bettyjones1137 ай бұрын
Lucky you. You had a mother and a doorbell and got to be outside instead of indoors with your mom. And you weren’t kidnapped?
@frankjennings44897 ай бұрын
I wish I could enjoy anything as much as the WHOO guy enjoys Bill’s rants
@lial27137 ай бұрын
thank you so much for saying this !!!!
@JVSMusic707 ай бұрын
You made a side comment about "the over-reaction to Covid". I'd rather complain about them over-reacting to covid than under-reacting, like Trump did. At least I can understand trying to do everything they can, rather than saying it's only unhealthy people who die and it's their own fault. It raises the question, how many more covid fatalities would have met your idea of the correct amount of reacting?
@eriktaylor12257 ай бұрын
It was only unhealthy people that died.
@svtinker7 ай бұрын
Where does the immune system fit in your scenario?
@howardcohen77847 ай бұрын
We could just take disinfectants.
@rcquakes307 ай бұрын
We could follow the science and not politics. Children's danger is slightly more than zero but school closers for two years. Seems you can get COVID in small businesses but not big retail stores which usually contribute to political campaigns. Protect the vulnerable and let everyone live life with reasonable procedures
@dthomas92307 ай бұрын
@@rcquakes30 Children were safe from the 1st version in '19, but it morphed thanks to anti-vax memes and began killing kids.
@ivareskesner20197 ай бұрын
Speaking of different types of new rules. The type so many now come up with all on their own. How we are to speak, to behave, to think, what words we are to use etc. New rule - We stop telling people what new rules there are every time we come up with a new way for others to behave just to appease us. Why is it that so many want you to sacrifice your comfort zone in order to preserve theirs? That is a question I would love to see answered by anybody demanding certain behaviours from others. Why is your comfort zone more precious than mine? Why do you expect me to break for you when you refuse to even bend?
@landor76107 ай бұрын
There so much stupidity in there i am too drunk to even break it down. But i get what you are trying to say.
@tracyearwin22417 ай бұрын
I AGREE "Wholeheartedly"! ☺️👍
@stamper13577 ай бұрын
To all of you criticizing the "WOO" guy: that happens to be my father. He was lobotomized last year.
@SilverFan21k7 ай бұрын
Thanks for covering this topic, Bill.
@WhiskersInc7 ай бұрын
Bill, stop planting people in your audience to hoot and holler at you. Been a watcher for 10 years - it has never been this bad before.
@curbozerboomer17737 ай бұрын
Bill has not been this unfunny before!
@joeofoysterbay71977 ай бұрын
Bill Mahar telling us about mingling with the public is like Don Trump telling us what it's like to buy bread.
@fireison83127 ай бұрын
Perfect😂😂
@jcdesantis697 ай бұрын
wrong.he does stand up in vegas every week in front of crowds of the public