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What This Comedian Said Will Shock You by Bill Maher (2025, Trade Paperback)

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To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them.

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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101668051397

ISBN-139781668051399

eBay Product ID (ePID)20072085179

Product Key Features

Book TitleWhat this Comedian Said Will Shock You

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicTopic / Politics, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, American Government / General

GenrePolitical Science, Humor

AuthorBill Maher

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal818.602

SynopsisThe hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever--a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the smartest commentary about what's happening in America is coming from a comedian--this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what's wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead. The book was inspired by the "editorial" Bill delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time . These editorials are direct-to-camera sermons about culture, politics, and what's happening in the world. To put this book together, Maher reviewed more than a decade of his editorials, rewriting, reimagining, and updating them. Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, the parties, the media, show biz, romance, health--Maher covers it all. The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken., The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's "Real Time" has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necesssary book ever -- a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture., The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever-a brilliantly astute and entertaining vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the smartest commentary about what's happening in America is coming from a comedian. At the end of each episode of his acclaimed and long-running HBO series, Real Time, Bill Maher delivers an "editorial"-a direct-to-camera sermon about culture, politics, and what's happening in the world. Those editorials provided the inspiration for What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, which covers more than a decade in the life of America and speaks exactly to the moment we're in. To write this book, Maher reviewed his editorials over the years, reconceived and updated them, and distilled the core issues that preoccupy us: Free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, cancel culture, polarization, climate change, showbiz, romance, trigger warnings, social media, and the fragile state of America's youth. In every chapter, Maher tackles the most important issues of our time in the most amusing ways with observations such as, For all those who are constantly demanding an apology for jokes, maybe it's you who should apologize to us. For all the great jokes we never get to hear, for all the brilliant thoughts never uttered. The country is in quite a pickle. Conservatives govern without shame, and liberals shame without governing. It shouldn't be that surprising that America is full of fed up, unhappy people who just want to break shit. I don't understand how a society that's so in love with spoiler alerts can also be into trigger warnings; tell me what's gonna happen-but don't tell me! The result is a hugely entertaining work of commentary about American culture in the tradition of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and H. L. Mencken.