Bill Maher: Stop ‘Busting Balls’ Over Old Movies and TV Shows Because They’re Not Woke Enough
“Enough with revisiting things.”
Bill Maher opened tonight with a defense of John Hughes movies and The Simpsons, amid other notable cultural icons of the recent past, over how they’re being viewed in a different light these days.
Molly Ringwald recently reflected on Hughes films, and the long-running Fox animated show received criticism for their response to the documentary The Problem With Apu. Maher read what Lisa Simpson said on the show and applauded the remarks.
“Exactly! What can you do?” he asked. “Label us all degenerates for not already being who we would eventually become?”
He brought up how “some millennials” are now a little bothered by some of the jokes on Friends and said, “If you spend your time combing through old TV shows to identify stuff that by today’s standard looks bad, you’re not woke, you’re just a douchebag.”
He acknowledged that there are some elements of old movies and TV shows that aren’t viewed the same way today, but quoted the Beatles to make a point about how we’re “getting better.”
Maher argued every single generation does and says things that, years later, are looked back at in shame, and predicted that would be true of the country 20-30 years from now.
He brought up the clothes of the 80s to make a point about this, putting on an old jacket of his, and concluded by saying, “Let’s chill out on busting balls for breaking rules that didn’t exist at the time.”
Watch above, via HBO.
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