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Bill Maher on naming planets

When scientists find a new planet that’s just like Earth, they have to give it a better name than Gliese 581. It sounds like an alias in a chat room. Are we supposed to explore it or think it’s a horny teenager – go to its galaxy looking for sex and end up on "Dateline."

|May 13th, 2009|Category: Standup Comedy|Write a Comment!

Bill Maher on Tom Cruise and Iran

Iran and Tom Cruise must swap hostages. Those 15 British sailors for Katie Holmes and her space baby. It’s a Shiite-Scientologist match made in heaven. The Iranians get something they’ve always wanted, the chick from "Dawson’s Creek," and Tom gets something he’s always wanted: 15 British sailors.

|May 13th, 2009|Category: Standup Comedy|Write a Comment!

Bill Maher on public marriage proposals

No more public marriage proposals. When you hire a skywriting plane, or propose to your girlfriend at a ballgame, every unmarried woman is looking at her man like, "Well…" And you’re not helping the married men, either, whose wives are remembering how they proposed to them in flip-flops, cargo shorts and a "Who Farted?" tee-shirt. [...]

|May 13th, 2009|Category: Standup Comedy|Write a Comment!