Bill Maher Rips ‘Idiots’ Slamming Amy Schumer’s New Film: ‘I Think We’ve Reached Peak Snowflake’
On Friday night, Bill Maher when after the “professionally offended” for their reaction to Amy Schumer‘s new film, I Feel Pretty.
In the romantic comedy, Schumer stars as a woman with insecurity issues who, after hitting her head from a fall, sees herself as the most beautiful woman on the planet. And in a segment called “Explaining Jokes to Idiots,” Maher blasted critics who dissected the film not because of its merit but because of various social justice reasons.
“The professionally offended have decided that even though it’s a movie by women filmmakers presenting a pro-woman message, ‘it does it the wrong way!'” Maher mocked. “Amy helped wrong, even though she really just remade The Nutty Professor, where someone not thin and not cool magically see themselves as better looking and gain confidence, except when Eddie Murphy did it, he didn’t have the purity police up his ass.”
The Real Time host then plowed through various reviews from The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, that called it “fat-shaming” and a “questionable message of empowerment.” He blasted The Independent for reviewing not the film… but the film’s trailer, saying it “seems so offensive” that it’s “exhausting.”
“Exhausted by a movie trailer… I think we’ve reached peak snowflake,” Maher reacted.
Maher then slammed the Los Angeles Times criticizing the film for not casting a woman of color, asking “can’t it just be funny?”
“Can’t we just sit in a movie theater, unclench our ***holes for two hours and laugh at what it is instead of dissecting for what it is not?” Maher continued. “Movie reviews, they’re not even reviews anymore. They’re just ‘How come you made the movie you made and not the one I would have made?'”
He then mentioned Schumer’s apology on The View for not casting a woman of color in her film, who acknowledged that she is “a caucasian” and that she would “love if this movie were starring a woman of color who’s had it way harder than me.”
“Yeah, because all goofy comedies should also address the black experience,” Maher sarcastically reacted, “like that one with Jennifer Garner grew up overnight. Remember that one? 13 Going on 30 Years a Slave?… You can be white and still have a life where you pray for death. Just ask Melania.”
Maher concluded with a message for liberals.
“When will liberals learn that barking at nothing makes people not want to listen when you actually have something to say?” Maher asked.
Watch the clip above, via HBO.
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