Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1413 - Bill Maher
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1413 - Bill Maher' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1413 - Bill Maher

hello bill great to be here in the man cave this is the professional extension
of the man cave this
part is a this is where real work gets done this is the only part in the
building it's worth it
just to see it no really i i thought i was and i did not expect this but you
know as i was just
telling you off the air i invited myself on this show yes i would you requested
and i did i would
have invited you we're doing we're coming back on the air real time's coming
back in a few days and
we always do something to promote it i said let's let's do that show you know i
like that show why
can't i do the shows i listen to wow got that in mexico should put that in a it
looks like it should
be a ring for maybe for a slash a roadie for a roadie what what season are you
guys coming into oh
fuck i don't know seasons it's hard to yeah i could just go by years we started
on hbo in 2003 but then
we used to do but the first few years they had us do two seasons they took us
took them a while to get
the idea that this is not like the sopranos or any other show this kind of show
is a habit show it has
to be on most of the year we used to do a season from february to like may and
then we'd be off for
four months and come back for a few months in the fall that's not the way you
can do it when you're
following events a live show right so finally somewhere in there they just okay
so then it was
one long season as opposed to two so i guess they counted the early years as
two we've been on hbo since
2003 but of course i started you were on the old show politically incorrect
somebody sent me a clip
of that wow i couldn't even bear to watch it just from the way we looked it was
too sad time is cruel
it's it's actually we look better now just because we look douchier uh younger
of course i mean that's
the trade-off in life is that you're douchier when you're younger yeah you do
look more pristine shall
we say less beaten down by time yeah but that started in 93 so i've already
passed my we did a 25th
anniversary show about a year and a half ago yeah in the fall of 18 it aired um
i couldn't believe that
do you know they're trying to bring back politically incorrect who is they
whoever the fuck they are
they came to me yeah that's so funny because i suggested that a while ago with
it not with me
hosting it of course but with somebody else hosting it but i'll have to ask my
manager about that i thought
we i guess we sold it i i think that's true when we moved to abc it must be abc
when we moved to abc
i think we probably sold them the rights to the show which is was probably
stupid but at the time
it made sense and well good luck with it i'm not doing it it was one of those
questions my manager
calls me up and says you're not going to want to do this but i'm obligated to
tell you why wouldn't
you want to just doesn't seem like something i'd want to do now i'm insulted no
i'm just i would
never want to take over your show after you did it and then you got it stripped
away for saying
something the whole thing was like you once someone does a show leave it alone
you know right leave it
yeah yeah like if you left and they started doing real time with adam corolla
right you know which is
exactly what they will be doing it's just come up with a new fucking show you
know right do you feel
constrained by the time but the the hour format uh sometimes i was on with howard
stern recently and
i was saying that to him and i feel the same sometimes when i watch or listen
to you um it's
it's funny america i don't get america like people's attention span is either
seven seconds or three
hours yeah there's no there's no in between well uh there's a lot of us that's
what it is this this
is a lot of people yeah they're playing to the people the shortest attention
span they say this
is all they have this is all that's there that's not true but it takes a big
risk to play to the
three hours i mean there are virtues and vices to both of them i mean i do like
um being forced to
condense uh and for people i always think of the person watching my show as the
person who is
interested in current events but doesn't have the time to follow it during the
week they've got kids
and jobs and lives they are going to watch me to catch them up and it's my job
to obviously entertain
them but also to point out what's important what what happened this week that
you should know about
somewhere in that live hour whether it's in the monologue or in new rules or
the editorial i do at the
end or in the panel somewhere i want to cover everything i think you should do
doesn't necessarily
mean it's the things that the newspaper or other outlets thought was important
what i think is
really important that's what i'm going to cover so there is something to be
said for condensing
there's also a lot to be said for letting it breathe you know i mean letting it
breathe i do miss that
sometimes i wish i could and very often we're in the middle of a discussion and
i have to move on
but i feel like with the way things are going now with streaming like i know hbo
has their new streaming
service maybe they could just give you an option to let some some of those
conversations lengthen out
it just seems like some of them you're just getting started and you have to cut
them off you're right
and again sometimes people just want the headlines very often i'm reading
something and it's too long
i just think just you should have given me the new york times starts every
article
not just tell me what happened yeah don't give me the background and on a rocky
road in afghanistan
and his friend lebowitz once said and remember just get to the part i care
about right um movies are too long lots of stuff is too long people need
editors but these kind of conversations lend themselves more than most art
forms to just letting it happen and yeah it's more natural i mean i like the
fact that unlike my early days when you'd sweat backstage and you'd hear the
tonight show band playing it's a
you know johnny's gonna ask you this and then you're gonna say that and you're
gonna listen don't fucking veer from this you get in trouble and
this is good i didn't prepare anything yeah you know obviously you didn't
prepare anything no i'm kidding i did
really have no list of questions no no i know you i like you right i i'm sure i'm
not gonna run out of
things to ask you or talk to you about but that's a talent in itself that you
could do that off the top of
your head i i i think you think it's not that much of a talent but trust me a
lot of people could not
do that i don't know if i would trust myself if you said you have two hours
with this guy
i i would work i would it would be in the back of my mind like shit what if an
hour and 10 minutes in
i'm like fuck i can't take a one more thing i can't imagine if you and i were
at dinner together
for two hours we would run out of shit to talk about that's probably true so
that's this
okay it's the same shit followed by dead air why complete dead air listen man i've
been a fan of
yours for a long time i bought true story and i have you wow yeah i bought that
book way back in
the day man i was living in new york it was a great book thank you very underrated
book on stand-up
comedy i appreciate that yeah it's a novel yeah you know it's a novelization of
my early life
very accurate though like it's you could feel like you live the life and you
know the names were
hilarious of the characters you chose no i i worked probably harder on that
than almost anything i've
ever done i would never really yeah i would never write another novel well just
to to make every
sentence every paragraph funny or telling no extra words to me that's the kind
of what year did you
write that i it's funny i started it in the early 80s when i was still almost
living it and i would get
busy and put it aside not to look at it for years and then uh i did a this is
my old life in 1985 in
december i went down to uh see juatanejo mexico to do the memorable tv movie tv
movie there there's a
phrase that dates you the memorable tv movie club med i think we all remember
it no we don't linda
hamilton was the star i think i do remember it i hope you don't i remember linda
hamilton okay in a
movie yes right with you now i'm picturing it it was a tv movie um and uh we
stayed at the club med
um i was in you know it was kind of a low budget thing as far as the people in
the cast and crew
went because we stayed at the club med which was not a club med is not a luxury
hotel you know what
club meds are you you give up your money you pay everything in beads but you
don't really need
money and the room for people who just you're going to enjoy the outside that's
why you're in mexico
so the room is monastic right there's no tv because you're out all day you know
you're just
going to be in the waves and then you're going to fuck and go to sleep and
whatever so i had a lot
of free time because i wasn't in the shot every day but i was in mexico
eventually i got fucking
cabin fever down there you know i couldn't wait to get home but i was there a
long time and had
nothing to do and i wrote a lot of the novel there and put it away again and
then i was in a real
career slump in the early 90s i had finished with acting mostly i didn't want
to do that anymore i'd
done a few sitcoms and i didn't want to be the office creep forever and so i
was just like nowhere
and that's when i finished it and also that's like the year i did cocaine which
i probably would not
have finished it without that it was only one year it was one year i was never
meant to do cocaine when
everyone was doing it i never wanted it you know me i'm a pothead like you i i
it's not my drug
but you know if you really insist you can get in you can get into any drug and
i and i just happened
to be at this point in my life where i was vulnerable to any i had nothing to
do all day i wasn't working
so uh it was and it helps you write it helps productivity it's a productivity
drive i was it was
never a drug that i liked because i wasn't social on it but i could i used to
like to have sex on it
really most men did not i loved that and uh and write but i didn't want to talk
some people like
you know that that guy i don't know i was never that guy who did coke and talk
a blue streak no but
but it helped me you know concentrate and organize and that kind of stuff and
you know and then i was
probably smoking pot too i was smoking cigarettes it was not a healthy year
that was not a healthy year
i i'd uh i remember you know you because cocaine which is kids that is the
worst drug it really is
because you get a little honeymoon period and then that quickly goes away and
then you're chasing that
high and you know it's not healthy and then you know you're you're trying to at
the end of the night
take the edge off you know you're into that put the edge i gotta put the edge
back on i took it off too
much by drinking jack daniels ah damn now i gotta take it off again i put it on
too much it it's that
was i never touched it i got lucky you you very smart i would have probably
really enjoyed it i think i
would have really enjoyed it yeah that's probably why i didn't at the again at
the beginning yeah
it's very much like a relationship cocaine good at the beginning you know i
think trails off
i always say that because resentment there is a time when relationships are
good spoiler alert it's
the beginning for a lot of them for sure now when you put that book out um is
it still in publication
another great question i'm finding so much about my own life here i didn't know
because
the comics incorrect was being redone um comics from my era like guys who grew
up and got a hold
that book when we were just starting out there was a it was huge a lot of guys
passed it around a lot
of guys talked about it hey you got to get this book yeah no i mean and i tried
to make it into a
movie uh there was many scripts written i mean it's my own fault for not
pushing that through i 