Maher’s comedy bits are called “New Rules,” and last night’s 9-minute episode was called “New Rules: Everything is broken.”
Maher highlights Trump’s new dance, the “Icky Shuffle,” often performed to The Village People’s song, “YMCA”, with the dance accompanied by salacious gestures. Instead of “YMCA,” Maher suggests that the new American Anthem is Dylan’s “Everything is Broken” (1989). Maher then explicates why America is broken, and not all of it has to do ith Trump (viz., gas prices, massive immigration, terrible health care, repeated emergency refunding of the government, increased mental illness, influencers [!]). Even Whole Foods gets some well-deserved snark.
It’s not his best bit, but there’s always a few chuckles.
Best thing for me was I added the Dylan tune to my playlist.
Maybe I’m just entranced, but I found that lyric (that was on screen) very expressive… very perhaps based.
Maher has done some good work, particularly his movie Religulous. Usually his bits are funny, and sometimes his New Rules are prescient. I just find his smugness a bit off putting, and he’s not that good at interviewing. He let Megyn Kelly walk all over him.
Also, the over-the-top enthusiasm of his audience is annoying. They must be paid to do all that whooping and hollering.