Bombing

Last night Maher made some real hacky joke about how Cheney was so overexposed, he was going to be appearing onI'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. When the audience made only polite chuckles he said "What, now you're offended by jokes about celebrities?" Then later when they didn't laugh at a joke about Obama, he said "We gotta worship principles, not people. Cause if we worship people, it's a religion." 

Bill, let me 'splain it to you. Your jokes are frigging horrible. They would seem outdated 30 years ago. The times have moved on but you're still stuck in some Jack Benny delivery. I could dig up Johnny Carson's rotten corpse and get a more modern performance out of it. It has nothing to do with celebrities or Obama. How do I know? 

Well, there are these two shows on Comedy Central who basically do what you do but update it for the millenium and to be, you know, funny. Remember funny? The shows are called The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report. And on these shows, jokes are routinely made about celebrities and even, yes, Obama and they routinely get laughs out of the audience. Sometimes Stewart gets a joke that bombs, but guess what? He doesn't assume the audience didn't get it. He doesn't assume the joke is offensive to those delicate, hypocritical pussiess in the stands. Instead he makes fun of himself for telling a bad joke, or he ignores it, and he moves on. You know why? 

Because unlike you, Stewart doesn't have this deep need to believe he's smarter and hipper than everyone. (He probably IS, but that's beside the point.) But your ego is way bigger. You can't accept the lameness of your material and delivery, so a little cognitive dissonance occurs in your brain when a joke bombs. "I'm funny. The joke is great. So why aren't they laughing? That audience must be too politically correct and/or ignorant to laugh!" 

But they're not the problem. You are. So I suggest dropping your dreary monologue and terrible, sub-SNL-par skits, and just keeping to the light political discussion. And when you're doing that, keep the anti-religion rants to a minimum. They make you look like a lunatic on jihad.

Screenwriters

Listen, I know writing is hard, and no one will deny it is, but come on, is this the best we have? This is passing as creative and original comedy writing these days? Have we all been dumbed down this much? Has the American mind deteriorated into vapid mush to the point this is humor? Is Ashton Kutcher the epitome of cutting edge comedic talent that is challenging our minds? Her writing is like the Doritos or Fritos of writing, all filler and it will make you mentally obese. Of course this is all in my humble opinion.

Men

Now I am not gay, so none of idiots start up with your bullshit "fag" comments. I just tell it how it is. Men have the right to feel and be beautiful just as much as women do. Henry Rollins is a beautiful man, but is not due to his square jaw and muscular stature. It is his outlook on life, his talent, his iron will, brilliance and intelligence. Some of the things that make a man feel beautiful. Each of us men in this world are beautiful, if we let our true colors shine.

Art

The idea that something is art Art has been used to defend many acts thought to be immoral.

No one cares. It's not as if they are creating charged work that fundamentally changes the way we look at the world - shifting out paradigm from a Malthusian dream to a sustainable future, say, or making us more sensitive to the Other.

Indeed the idea that art need not be moral is another way of making art ABOUT morality in some sense - the negative one. 

Attitude

Rodney's life really isn't all that pathetic. Yeah, so he seems to have had a kind of screwed up childhood: who hasn't? He has also hung out with some of the greatest stars which seems to have been his lifes ambition. He has experienced more than moderate success in his chosen field of the entertainment industry. And let us not forget that he seems to have had his share and more of nubile young women. In short he seems to have accomplished many of the goals he has set for himself and would be marked as at least a 'moderate success' in most peoples books. 

Yet somehow even after you see the film evidence of a fairly sucessful and interesting life you end up feeling sorry for the guy. I think you feel sorry for him becouse he seems to feel sorry for himself for some reason. That perpetual lack of confidence that he seems to have. He seems to be the poster child for how ones attitude determines ones life.