Paul Reiser Shares Bill Cosby Story

[@villeguy1]

thank you paul reiser for completing the story despite bill's attempts to derail it.

[@bruce12479]

Paul is missing the point of the podcast, he’s invited to the show to listen to Bill.

[@tristramcoffin926]

Paul: So I am seeing Bill Cosby in Vegas... Bill: But wait, let me rant about how Bill Cosby isn't funny for 10 minutes

[@BuddyMcNugget]

LOL, so true

[@dreamernator]

Yup!

[@3dguy839]

We're all here to listen to Bill it's just that Paul has front row tickets

[@johnboy6594]

Like Mr. Maher, I have no patience for this show. There is so much better to see on KZbin.

[@latrofu]

Bill Maher needs to work on not getting wasted during these podcasts so that he doesn't keep interrupting his guests.

[@DogecoinBros]

He needs to let the other person finish the story...

[@thomaswest7746]

Apparently you don't watch many podcasts

[@thack57]

Stern does that even worse and people rave, 'He's great'. They're both great at interrupting.

[@Maxxroad]

This is Bill's down time. Relax.

[@davitofarito]

He always hijacks any conversation about Cosby to let everyone know he didn't think his standup was funny. We get it Maher...for the 100th time WE GET IT!

[@mgers75]

Bill makes 75% of these interviews awkward for no reason

[@brys.3131]

Personally I think it's just undiagnosed Asperger's or what we now call ASD. As an aspie myself, Bill has always struck me that way.

[@catsupchutney]

Yeah, he really needed to hammer home his opinion, after saying we shouldn't force our opinions on people. Let it go Bill.

[@mikelair9144]

That's his shtick

[@Somebodythatsnotyourmother]

I just would like to hear the story. He makes everything about him.

[@richardgonzales3562]

Because Bill feels too self important.

[@gregoryhamptons]

Maher is really getting insufferable. He went from "I can separate the art from the artist" to "Cosby sucks as a comic" to "Cosby is a monster and I hate his guts" all while completely ignoring the point of Reiser's story and accusing him of defending Cosby's character. Stay off the weed, it's ruining your brain

[@jamesfeldman4234]

I'm not sure I'd blame the weed. It didn't ruin George Carlin's brain or the brains of Cheech and Chong.

[@harrynutsackk]

Your comment is as dumb as Maher's. He's smokes Cloves...not weed.

[@justinklenk]

I don't know how Bill Maher makes me dislike him even more than I already always disliked Bill Cosby. Wow.

[@timrobbins7030]

It's not weed... it's narcissism.

[@tedwojtasik8781]

I thought weed was supposed to chill you out, it sure chills me out. Bill must be smoking the angry strain, either that or he has become such a massive arsehole even weed can't even him out.

[@VoodooCosmonaut]

This podcast would be the best one on the internet if Bill would learn to be an old-school Dick Cavett-style host. Cavett would engage in a conversation. Bill just treats his guests like platforms for sharing his own opinions - and we already know everything Bill thinks.

[@thack57]

IF? If my aunt had balls, she'd be my Uncle. 😉

[@Eskewsme]

It’s not an interview. It’s a conversation with Bill Maher. Take a “better interviewer” that allows his guests to talk removes Bill Maher entirely.

[@colinglen4505]

Cavett was very irritating to watch.

[@KeefWard]

And what he thinks never changes or evolves.

[@keepplayingnice]

Cavett was also a twat. People love to romanticise him based on some short clips they saw on KZbin. Watch his interview with Eddie Murphy on his show or with Martin Short at the 92Y, he's insufferable.

[@MasterHippo]

Bill Maher wasn't a fan of Bill Cosby?!? There are so many levels of who-gives-a-shit that I can't even begin.

[@TrishRyan-ey8go]

Great point 😮

[@Jtaime-y6c]

Anybody who remains a fan of Cosby is pretty much a POS.

[@stephenraybrown]

"Look, your story may be interesting to some lowbrows out there, but I have a take that is actually the correct one, as you can tell from how smugly I tell it to you."

[@KeeLin-pf5iu]

if you don't give a shit then why would you listen to this clip?

[@Americansareretarded]

Why listen?

[@bladestratford]

Nobody interrupts a guest and ruins the flow of their stories like Bill! His lack of self-awareness never ceases to amaze.

[@SharpCinema]

Being drunk and high will do that

[@travlips]

Why are you watching?

[@HeartFeltGesture]

@@travlips For the amazement?

[@HeartFeltGesture]

He is aware, but just a lazy, self-indulgent narcissist.

[@richiegtt]

I totally agree ,he has a bad habit of doing this

[@MediaMapGuy]

Bill Maher is just a really negative and caustic person. Very mean-spirited and spiteful. That side of him really comes out in this video.

[@Sydneypaige24]

True, because he’s not as content with his life choices as he so adamantly tries to convince his audience of. Paul Reiser is obviously content having a family and relationship with his adult sons.

[@stephenraybrown]

And that's why he's an American treasure.

[@stephenraybrown]

@@Sydneypaige24 Paul's just sitting there trying to have a conversation whereas Bill's always "on," doing his Bill Maher schtick. But he may not feel it as an act; since he's been doing it so long, he might actually believe that his act is actually his self.

[@LongHeadedAnimal-ko2sh]

Maybe Cosby tried to slip him an "Aspirin" back in the day.

[@totallybored5526]

And quite delusional. He was born and raised in the U.S. and yet is under the impression that makes him Irish

[@Chosimba13]

Man, Rieser has so much more class than Bill. It's like watching your dad try to talk to an arrogant teenager lol

[@gearjamor]

Bill treats guests like he doesn't really need them.

[@matthewronsson]

Larry King got yhthat way too, right up to the point of doing zero research on his guest meaning clueless about Seifnfeld's mega-hot show at the time.

[@gearjamor]

​@@matthewronsson Exactly!

[@lanceleader163]

Like his women. Lol

[@chrisgullett4332]

He don't. You do not seem to understand how this works. They need to be interviewed, the interviewer does not need them. They are there plugging themselves. Here is how it works, celebrity needs to promote a product, they hit the interview circuit. It could be anything from an album, a move,TV show etc. They are contractually obligated to go get interviewed to promote that product. So no Maher does not need them, he can get a million others to interview instead. Maher allows them to be on, they get no say in it. Several shows even have a list of people banned from being on their shows. There is literally an endless amount of people Maher can interview, he does not need anybody. In five minutes Maher could have future interviews confirmed with the hottest rapper,, the hottest Insta model, a few high ranking politicians, the number of the number one song in the world etc, and you think he is in need of people to interview?

[@craigjhard]

Bill talks like a 68 year old man who has no "real" love in his life, i.e. a family...Shit this dude would be more pleasant to be around if he was twice divorced. He has great guests, but like most people in the comments said, he uses them as a megaphone for his own opinions. Which are often lukewarm at best.

[@Stevesautopartsify]

Didn't think Paul would ever get to finish his Cosby story with Bill's constant interrupting!

[@TrishRyan-ey8go]

True true! I have to be honest I’m told I interpret too much! Yikes glad I know now how bad it coined across yikes!!

[@theresesolimeno4651]

I'm impressed at Paul for hanging in there to finish it while not actually telling Bill to shut the F up while he did it.

[@TrishRyan-ey8go]

@ good point

[@cautionTosser]

to be fair, they're both interrupting each other. I think it's just a style.

[@cautionTosser]

to be fair (second time typing this because I think KZbin has cut me off for replies), Paul was interrupting Bill too. I couldn't stand having a conversation with either of them. They're both only interested in what they themselves have to say.

[@seanm3226]

I saw Cosby at Caesar’s Palace in June of 1981. My ribs have not recovered to this day. Maher only wishes he could capture an audience like Cosby did that night.

[@denmark39]

You were fooled

[@alexwilliamrussell]

"What's an ark?" ..... "Who is this?'

[@Nevernowaynope]

🤮

[@GLPitt1]

Any comic tha tries to say that the all time greats aren't funny (Cosby, Seinfeld, Dangerfield, etc) is just a jealous, insecure, hack.

[@Nevernowaynope]

@@GLPitt1 Nothing funny about a rapist.

[@celestialnubian]

This is Bill Maher at his most insufferable. Dude shut tf up and let your guest get a thought out. Geez.🙄

[@SPCEMN3]

Wow that was awkward. Way to cut the legs off your guest, Bill.

[@HowlinLordByron]

Unlike Johnny Carson and David Letterman (classic and funny cat show hosts) Maher does not listen to his guests and makes everything about HIM. Oh and he thinks he is always right (which is a scream) Watch Maher interview Malcolm McDowell and he actually agues with Malcom about the release date of "A Clockwork Orange" or far worse, tells Jane Fonda that her parents were not physically beautiful people! How I wish Jane would've replied, "You should talk..."

[@shawnkenney4344]

yeah, I just got to the part where he says " anyway back to the story. Its not even a story at this point", when I read your comment. Maher is Horrible.

[@joniheisenberg]

@@HowlinLordByronRight! Total cringe moment when he said her mother was not beautiful. He himself is no George Clooney.

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

​@@HowlinLordByronYeah, in his day, I'd say that Henry Fonda was a better looking guy than Bill.

[@davidofpiano423]

That's kinda his thing

[@juleswinnfield616]

Such an awkward exchange. Bill is not a very agreeable host, as he feels the need to challenge his guests on the most trivial of subjects and harps on things that are subjective and inconsequential. I didn't find any of it enjoyable or entertaining. If I were Paul, I would make sure that was my last appearance on this "show".

[@tiffanie7139]

4:37 Looks like Bill Maher can’t separate the art from the artist at all.

[@CriticalThinker02]

Apparently he can’t take a joke either (killing the dog, etc.)

[@StrawberryMixALot]

so?

[@broninbrown6095]

I was thinking the same.

[@HowlinLordByron]

Bill Maher is a bitter little man.

[@craigrussell3062]

@StrawberryMixALot So at the beginning of this clip he says, "I can separate the art from the artist, I just don't think Cosby is funny." Then four minutes later Mahr's only justification for why Cosby isn't funny is because of additional horrible things he did in his private life. Okay, fine, but don't start by saying you can separate the art from the artist because clearly you can't.

[@RobbaKeef]

Bill Cosby himself is one of the best stand-up specials ever.

[@Grungefan2018]

I actually saw him on that tour way back when in Syracuse NY on a Sunday night . He was Hilarious. He also said that as he drove thru downtown not once did he (motioned a head turn ) cause there was not a soul I sight. I was really disappointed to find out he was a freak in the end but he was definitely hilarious and the Himself show was the funniest of all ..imho

[@jekyll999]

Interrupting people and derailing a conversation is not a good thing in an interviewer.

[@db50000]

I love Bill but it's like success got to his head or something around 6 months ago for whatever reason.

[@SignorAdry]

"I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy"

[@pendorran]

God love Norm MacDonald.

[@77barrymac]

"I think the worst thing was the raping!"

[@JamesPassmore-z7r]

"I thought it was the raping..."

[@mjcruiser4238]

You guys beat me to it-well done We all miss Norm

[@brianamon817]

"Well I thought it was the raping."

[@DummyAccount-f1q]

The mock callousness toward the dog was the JOKE, Maher, you twit.

[@macgeek21]

hes knows that he's saying that's not funny. which it isn't. Rodney Dangerfield saying take my wife please was funny.

[@bigalmunro-mastermagician9204]

@@macgeek21 That's a Henny Youngman joke.

[@maryoryan2704]

Paul needs his own show!

[@lionheart5078]

say what you want about bill cosby, he was 10x funnier than bill Maher.

[@hutch1197]

Every Bill Maher podcast interview: BILL: So, tell us what you think of this particular topic. GUEST: Well, I think.... BILL (interrupts): Here's what I think....

[@bobross1829]

Maher is the type that started this podcast because he heard all the "kids" like podcasts without learning anything about how to do a good podcast. "So, kids like the podcast thing huh? Hey sounds good, I will just treat it as my HBO show and tell every guest what I think about everything and yell at them in a real passive aggressive way if they disagree with me!"

[@rickandteribedell4350]

He was down right rude on Gutfeld ...ink ow not a podcast but an example of watched a few of his shows before you go on so you know how it works. His ego is one of the biggest in LA

[@bobross1829]

@@rickandteribedell4350 His entire career is basically a shrine to narcissism. He has a 30 year career of having a political show where he is literally paid to make political statements and has an audience that applauds everything he says. You actually have to try NOT to be a raging narcissist with that kind of job. And he does not try at all, he embraced it.

[@patrick815]

Mozart was Austrian

[@stevevenn1]

An aristocratic over here!

[@cristinalacoste2062]

Bill Cosby was hilarious in television and on stage. Paul is a really good sport. Something completely alien to Bill.

[@jeangonzales6679]

Agreed- Bill Cosby Himself is one of the greatest comedy specials of all time.

[@cristinalacoste2062]

@@jeangonzales6679 I will try to find it. Thanks

[@HazyWave1974]

@@cristinalacoste2062 Oh, you are in for a treat. He may be a POS as a human being, but Himself is one of the greatest specials of all time. Watched that SO many times as a kid. If you watched the Cosby Show then you'll recognize a lot of the stories he took from Himself and turned into scripts for that.

[@MKDAVIS323]

@@jeangonzales6679Pops used to have the record and play it all the time

[@Sukijopa]

No.

[@SamSung-nf6tr]

I grew up with Cosby albums. My parents played them for their friends every body laughed their heads off. His humor was about family. Bill can't relate to that. Bill was jealous. It comes through 50 years later.

[@meko264]

Maher didn't like Sanford And Son either.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

Bill Cosby destroyed a lot of womens lives. Screw his comedy, he makes me sick.

[@withgoddess]

So did I during dinner in the dining room. I didn't like him. But I tried to listen to Reiser's story. 🤬

[@joshfatal]

@@paulinegallagher7821 "Stop having a conversation about something that bothers me, because I have a more negative view on him than you."

[@joshfatal]

If Maher criticized the Cosby Show I could understand. It was a cute sitcom but I never really laughed until Cosby started acting like a goofball, which was diminished because he was playing a doctor and a father. But his stand-up was pretty funny in a way many comedian couldn't pull off. A supposed comedian simply saying a famous comedian is not that funny just makes you sound humourless and hateful. Not a good look for a comic.

[@RedLeo-pf9yo]

Bill‘s favorite guest on this show is always Bill himself.

[@sebastianmoraga4785]

Nailed it. Absolutely.

[@MikeO-r5y]

Can't really add to all the good comments about Bill shitting on Paul here. Bill and Conan couldn't be more different in the way they approach their guests.

[@TheSamuelWells]

2:28 Jerry Seinfeld was a huge fan of Cosby, he even said that he listened to "Why is there air?" over and over, until the record wore out.

[@AsInLifeSoInMusic]

Yes, I knew someone here would have caught that. Bill is taking from his behind. In "Comedian" there is a scene towards the end Rock, telling Jerry that he had just seen Cosby and what a great show it was and Jerry is just in awe of hearing about it.

[@joemarshall4226]

Jerry talked about the "Mt Rushmore of Comedy", and he had Cosby, Rickles, Pryor, and someone else on it.......Eddie Murphy? Can't remember.....

[@hawaiihardy7285]

Bill sucks at interviewing, he doesn't listen.

[@betsybabf748]

A good host makes the guest comfortable and gets them wanting to talk. That is the opposite of Bill Maher.

[@lotstodo]

I never liked Cosby being self righteous about how other men acted, spoke and dressed when he was drugging and SAing women.

[@DummyAccount-f1q]

Yes, he was definitely a hypocrite. Nevertheless, early in his career he was a great comedian.

[@celestialnubian]

Richard Pryor is the greatest and if you go back and listen to his early stuff then you know that it all evolved from Cosby. Bill Cosby is still one of the greats f what Maher talking about.

[@macgeek21]

whaaaaaa? you smoking something dude. Cosby isn't worthy to clean shit out of Richard Pryor's asshole.

[@adventuresinmoodcity]

Maher makes everything about him. Now he just said he can separate the art from the man , then he kind of scolds Riesner for liking Cosby because he was a "Monster " . I think Bill just likes to hear himself talk...lol

[@commanderkeen3787]

Very nice of Paul to come on the show as a guest interviewer to interview Bill Maher 😂

[@jbt6007]

"What are we talking about?" - Bill Maher

[@paulsommerhalder9049]

Paul as the Company Man opposite heroine Sigourney Weaver in Alien was tremendous. Paul can be a fantastic non-comedic actor along with all the years of SitComming. Please do a Residency in Vegas Paul. You would take over the town.

[@jamesflood521]

Bill is such a self important windbag sometimes. Let the guy tell his story and be a Cosby comedy fan boy. Your opinion on comedy is only that.

[@cwell510]

Maher saying he was NEVER A FAN of Cosby sounds like utter BS to me. EVERYONE loved Bill Cosby in the 70's, 80's, and 90's.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

I have no doubt that he wasnt. On the Leno interview, Jay mentioned how Maher used to complain to him how other comedians were more mainstream successful before, and Maher sounds like someone who would have hated Cosby's success. Just as Reiser was talking about how Cosby was supportive of other comedians, Maher probably never was.

[@stormbringercoming8105]

Well, I get where Maher is coming from. I will acknowledge that Mel Brooks is a comedy genius, but I never liked his movies. Even Blazing Saddles.

[@nfmosphotos4624]

@@stormbringercoming8105 It comes off way more person and bitter how Maher is saying it than simple criticism, especially since hes a fellow comedian. He is so bitter about Cosby's previous success, that he wont even let Reiser finish his own personal story.

[@stormbringercoming8105]

@@nfmosphotos4624 Agreed. Maher reminds me of that upper middle class suburban teenager that grew up nerdy, lonely and no friends. He became bitter and judgmental. That not even talent, fame or vast wealth could rectify.

[@jazzjokesjalopies]

They say regular pot smoking can make people irritable.

[@HowlinLordByron]

And turns your brain to mush.

[@Wordsareprayers]

Nancy Reagan? Bride of the devil, Ronnie the racist?🤓

[@dynamicphotography_]

Gives you serious anxiety and makes you not want to do anything.

[@FrankRios2b]

most non pot smokers are irritable to begin with.

[@sosueme66]

Bill, Mozart was Austrian, not German!

[@seveneleven7725]

lol!!..interesting you ruined his joke!

[@seveneleven7725]

so was Hitler as well!

[@TheNancypoo]

They're one and the same.

[@timothymeehan181]

Grew up in the 70's, with my brothers(3 to a room) lying in bed in the dark falling asleep to all of Cosby's early albums, and laughing our heads off. Saw him for the first time in northern CA, at the Marin Center for the Arts, around 2013-14-ish(just BEFORE all the shit hit the fan), and it was so bad that I almost threw something on the stage, so frustrated was i for being so "had". He aimlessly wandered around the stage in a stupor, going off on boring, meaningless, disconnected tangents, etc. And i wondered what the hell had happened to him. In essence, he charged us lots of money for a 90 minute show when only had approximately 20 minutes(and that's being generous) of material. Upon hearing the news of who & what he really was/is, that horrendous show seemed to make sense a little. i suspect he knew then he was about to crash & burn. His life proved a sad, tragic, almost "Shakespearian" storyline....Homeboy had a kink, and his position(money, fame, power, etc) allowed him to indulge that kink for almost 50 years..😖😞😱

[@vincentrimmer5844]

Interesting point of view. Thank you. I, too, was a fan of Cosby (I still like the comedy) but was severely let down when the truth about him was revealed. It still hurts. This may be the wrong place to bring this up, but I wonder how growing up black in America during the 30's, 40's, 50's may have contributed to the secretive degenerate/criminal behavior of great entertainers like Cosby or Chuck Berry, or how many others? Sorry. Maybe this is me trying to find excuses, but think of what an effect that has on your psyche: you're a genius in your field, and on top of the world, you're a 'king', but still there are places you can't go, people you can't see, things you can't do because of the colour of your skin.

[@wallybingbang4350]

@@vincentrimmer5844 So you think he was drugging and raping women because he's black. What a fool

[@spider82666]

Here's a New Year's resolution for you, Bill: I will admit that the Cosby Show will live on in perpetuity while my podcast and ramblings will not.

[@JohnSmith-il7jn]

Bill should just have a large mirror placed on the opposite chair, so he won't feel upstaged.

[@joshfatal]

Have him be like an extra-smug version of Stewart Smalley on SNL. Where he just mumbles incoherently about how great he is, but for different reasons.

[@goodpainlive]

For a guy that's worth 200 million and no kids he sure is a miserable person.

[@Grungefan2018]

Imagine the women that get stuck dating him, ick..

[@SteelyDanimal]

Bill making his guests feel super comfortable again.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

What Bill Maher describes as "pedestrian humor" was Bill Cosby's talent for telling a story that is so relatable that the audience is actually laughing at themselves. (My Dentist knows the "Dentist" routine by heart!) Cosby was and is an awful human being, but one of the greatest standup comedians ever to live. The shame for the rest of society is we have to struggle with those two things being inside the same package.

[@chemweapon]

Bill Maher is a better human but Bill Cosby is the better comic.

[@georgesockett3316]

he had the number one show in the 80s for a reason

[@einkaliber9939]

​@@georgesockett3316Too bad it wasn't a comedy show. It was criticism and rhetoric show. He has a good way of pointing out the obvious faults of everyone and making "some" in the room laugh at it. He's a comedic bully.

[@Steve_BigBoyzToyz69]

Cosby couldnt hold Mahers pill bottle.

[@spokentruth5909]

I wouldn’t even say he’s a better human

[@gourmetghost]

@@spokentruth5909yeah idk where ppl are getting that idea from

[@carxcel]

Let your guest talk!!!!

[@fellfromspace]

God, Bill Maher love's the sound of his own voice. What a gas bag.

[@peterm6179]

Cosby was better than Maher by a lot

[@CarryTheZero1]

There are two stand up comedy movies from the 80’s that I still think about like every other day, and that is Bill Cosby Himself and Eddie Murphy Delirious.

[@1492tomato]

Bill, just do a soliloquy. What's the point of having guests if you constantly talk over them. Rude, unprofessional and frustrating for the viewers. We ALREADY KNOW your point of view. LET YOUR GUESTS SPEAK.

[@constantlyenthused336]

Does Bill understand why the guests are meant to be there? Is there somebody there who could maybe remind him?

[@geraldinemcgowan2385]

Paul Reiser is so talented. He can act, he can do stand up, he can write....

[@mickeymichaels1298]

...writes songs, plays piano...

[@plev10]

Paul Reiser is charming, likeable, funny and self-effacing. In other words the polar opposite of Bill Maher.

[@skyisfalling8173]

I despised Cosby from the start, from his first Johnny Carson interview, his psycopathic narcissistic nature was clear to see.

[@adventuresinmoodcity]

Oh it was not, everyone wants to say that after the fact . What narcissistic monster did you see before the charges came out ? What did he do to make you feel that way ?

[@skyisfalling8173]

@@adventuresinmoodcity I am not alone in this. He was so clearly to me a complete egomaniac narcissist. Some people may have radars on this. That you think no one could have a clue to what kind of monster he turned out to be is ridiculous. Everyone does not want to say after the fact. I was frigging 17 when I thought this and I am 70 now. I just happened to be right. Check out his early Johnny Carson interviews - it isn't that hard to see. Or not. That it bothers you that someone found him suspicious - what the F is up with that.

[@jerrygunn5236]

"Bill, you miss my point" Maher: Story of my life...

[@nancyh9030]

Ha Ha too funny!

[@ricktheexplorer]

I have no idea why the comments section here lit up with people shading on Maher for this video. Bill was right, everything he said, and Cosby was rarely funny, although he could invoke a chuckle sometimes. This was a conversation, like it's supposed to be. I got what Paul was saying, but Cosby was a prick and a psychopath, a clinical psychopath. Bill and Paul both did good here.

[@wildkingdom2012]

Paul Reiser is a classic. Give him a goog. Lots of history.

[@drkaufman]

He’s a good guy. I have a friend who knows him from his standup days. It comes through onscreen.

[@meekyw.4010]

I doubt Bill Maher ever listened to R.Kelly? 4:49 Paul he doesn't get it! He probably thinks it's about being "woke" and you're defending wokeness and they love to make themselves angry about everything "wokeness"!😂

[@SilentPTV]

WHY???? Why wont you let him finish a thought, sentence, or story?

[@YoYo-gt5iq]

I was specifically thinking about the Cosby bit at the dentist with Bill brought up the dentist

[@bfsgman]

Funny how someone who's supposedly a comic like Bill Maher is taking Cosby's JOKE literally. There's clearly some personal biases creeping in there.

[@louiswhite4909]

Cosby, Seinfeld, Rickles, Pryor,Murphy,Rock,P. O’Neal,Sykes,Shandling,Both Foxx’s, and Chapelle are my personal funniest stand-ups!

[@reginaldperiwinkle]

Gloria Gifford was in both DC Run, the Bill Maher movie, and California Suite, an earlier movie with Bill Cosby.

[@BRinMilwaukee]

THIS is club random, love this segment

[@tacoheadmakenzie9311]

"Can I tell you my side of it?" "Sure, Bill, go ahead...and now, I'LL interrupt YOU every five seconds!".

[@joshfatal]

First off, he wants to tell his side of somebody else's story, and then all he says is OTHER PEOPLE told him stories and he doesn't want to repeat them. Guy's a total pothead.

[@voiceguy3635]

The Soupy Sales line was good. Now,I never thought Paul Reiser was funny,so he exceeded my lifetime laughs of his humor by one.

[@800-high9]

5:32 Mozart was not German. He was born in Salzburg before it became part of the Austrian Empire. He spent most of his life in Vienna.

[@DadisDad-hx5zr]

That's pedantic idiocy. Julian Rushton, in his Mozart biography, summarizes many of the facts given above and concludes: "Mozart, by modern criteria Austrian, counted himself a German composer." German was his native language and he was ethnically German ffs.

[@RobertHanseman-eg4le]

high9, you are confusing nationality with ethnicity. He was German.

[@800-high9]

@@DadisDad-hx5zr I am a synthetic chemist, I have learned to be concerned with every detail; so yes, I am pedantic. Perhaps Mozart had political or social reasons for associating himself with the German composers. But to me, Mozart sounds more like Johann Strauss II than Beethoven, or Bach.

[@800-high9]

@@RobertHanseman-eg4le I've read that close to 90% of Austrians are ethnically German. I suspect that Schubert, Haydn, and Strauss I and II were all ethnically German. Yet, to the Austrians, the differences between Austrians and Germans are important. What if Bill Maher were talking with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Club Random and he said, "Mozart was a German... just like you."

[@DummyAccount-f1q]

@@DadisDad-hx5zr No, Mozart was Austrian. My grandparents came from England. That doesn’t make me British. I’m American. You’re just straining very hard to justify ignorance. The plain fact is that Maher knows nothing about music.

[@dv8smr]

If you hold your hand over your screen, you can actually feel the heat from all of Maher's hot air

[@jamesfeldman4234]

As a child, my parents played comedy records, and I listened to all of them: Bob Newhart, Nichols and May, Bill Cosby, Vaughn Meader, Mort Sahl, Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer, and Jackie Mason. I thought they were all hilarious and I fell in love with comedy ever after. My parents even played Lenny Bruce, but I didn't think he was as funny, mainly because I didn't have a frame of reference yet to understand what he was saying. My appreciation for Lenny rose greatly once I learned more about life. Cosby, though, was easy to understand and relate to, and even as child I recognized it was the way Cosby told his stories that made them funny. Cosby didn't tell jokes the way the others did and was unique in that way.

[@sunilsadanand9303]

It's incredible to me how such an irritating person became famous in the first place.

[@pmatthewroy]

I don't care what Maher thinks, Cosby was the best to listen to in the 80's. A lot of families back then had his record(s) and watched his HBO special and loved it.

[@HowlinLordByron]

Bill Cosby was funny as hell and a pioneer with "I, Spy."

[@billlozier5551]

Bill Maher seems a bit jealous. Bill Cosby was one of the greatest comics ever. Maher may have ADHD because Cosby told great stories.

[@sam4soph1]

Bill Maher is not funny either.

[@pauletteriddle3776]

I thought Cosby was hilarious back in the day!

[@braviafeed]

Bill you do not have 1/10th of the talent Bill Cosby has. You will be forgotten 5 seconds after you leave tv.

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

And Bill Cosby's "talent" is housed in one of the sickest celebrities to ever see a woman.

[@HEADLINEZOO]

Cosby was a stand up master and very troubled man. Maher thinks he wasn’t cutting edge or blue enough. Maher isn’t remotely in his league.

[@cs1983]

5:28 Mozart was German? 🤔 Oh, Bill. 🤦‍♂

[@DadisDad-hx5zr]

That's pedantic idiocy. Julian Rushton, in his Mozart biography, summarizes many of the facts given above and concludes: "Mozart, by modern criteria Austrian, counted himself a German composer." German was his native language and he was ethnically German ffs.

[@cs1983]

@@DadisDad-hx5zr Ahh, so he identified as German?! Sure, in that case, he was German of course. 😉

[@cs1983]

@@DadisDad-hx5zr Ahh, so he identified as German?! Sure, in that case, he was German of course. 😉

[@cs1983]

@@DadisDad-hx5zr So he ident*fied as German?! Sure, in that case, he was German of course. 😉

[@Kevin-w8d2g]

Maher just can't iterate enough how he didn't think Cosby was funny. I think he's managed to point that out with 100 guests now.

[@wolflarson71]

6:05 sounds like Gloria Gifford

[@davidmontgomery5047]

Cosby Was an Amazing Comic , Those LP's He Put Out in the 60's were Some of the Best Comedy Ever .

[@JenniferLu-q5x]

I agree totally with Bill. I never thought Cosby's comedy was funny.

[@paulinegallagher7821]

With the Jelllooooo

[@DadisDad-hx5zr]

His storytelling was amazingly good and it's absolutely without dispute that he was one of the greatest comedians who ever lived by his peers, fans and critics of the art form. You can't get your head around it because you have a blind spot. A good analogy is this: it's generally agreed that Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest rock bands, yet Pete Townshend and Keith Richards have both gone on record saying that they've never liked anything by Zep. That doesn't change the fact that Zep's music has stood the test of time and set a standard in music. Bill Cosby literally set a standard in comedy and has stood the test of time in the art form. You're just another Pete or Keith who doesn't get it, but that does not change the significance of the artist and his talent. That's the most diplomatic way to put it; you could just have no taste.

[@robertb4432]

Trump voter here and a fan of Bill Maher. He's so well spoken and insanely smart over a huge spectrum of topics, to the point where I'm kind of intimidated. Go Bill!

[@MKDAVIS323]

Bill Cosby’s comedy > Bill Maher’s comedy

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

And Bill Cosby will forever be tainted by his history of abusing women, while Bill Maher will just fade away...

[@jeffk8247]

It takes two people to have a conversation Bill is the host and does a great job.

[@Akkbar21]

I loved Bill Cosby as a comic

[@BMG19FUNNYDIE]

It's never fully explained. What was Cosby's lesson tip to Paul Reiser?

[@dynamicphotography_]

Paul Reiser got old. Loved him in Aliens. What was the sitcom he was in? With that Twister gal. It was super funny.

[@shahilanathan8067]

Mad about you.

[@macgeek21]

mad about you

[@dynamicphotography_]

Yes!!! Thanks!

[@artmanjohn2]

Bill needs to take a chill pill, he's making my neck hurt from the stress he's prolificating! Can't he just be in the moment and take it all in and just be grateful and happy? God, he wears me out!

[@RadioSnivins]

Bill can only separate the person from the work if he's a fan of the work

[@RustysRuppEEs]

Paul is Still HILARIOUS

[@KevinR1138]

I still have a hard time believing all of that crap but nonetheless as far as his comedy goes, I still to this day think that the 1983 film “Bill Cosby: himself” is one of the greatest stand-up films ever released.

[@joemarshall4226]

My mother used to say, "Don't pour water on a drowned rat." Bill Cosby was a great comedian, he was a groundbreaker for African Americans on tv, first as a performer, then as a producer, and he gave thoughtful comments about American society and people's responsibilities in it. It turned out he had a dark side.....he got caught. It came out. He did jail time. He lost a lot of money. He is a pariah to many. The guest wanted to tell a story about how Cosby was good to him when he didn't have to be. Bill wanted to make sure we knew that he still hated Cosby. .......why? Don't pour water on a drowned rat.

[@mustermas]

Bills a low key racist

[@SoCal90755]

Bill, let your guest speak Jesus Christ!

[@1960taylor]

Cosby was without question the GOAT