BILL MAHER: THE GOLDEN GOOSE SPECIAL (TV)
Summary
This comedy special features politically charged standup comedian Bill Maher. Maher jokes about a wide range of topics including the following: how tired he is of being critized for statements he made comparing Los Angeles to New York; signs that he is getting older; his aversion to musicians who have funny names; the implausibility of the way sex is depicted in the movies; the public's emulation of stupid scenes from movies; his refusal to adjust his life to conform to the lives of all the stupid people in society; the courses he took in college; the bidet as the most fascinating invention ever created; why the names of people from the Nordic countries are so profound; his response to movie clichŽs; the Pope's outlandish outfits; how one knows when masturbation is supposed to end; the difference between the minds of men and women; his belief that sex for a man is much more difficult than sex for a women; why being a man on a date is a very tough job; the difficulty of figuring out who is the domineering person in a homosexual relationship; his desire for a no-talking-after-sex rule; men becoming unfocused during sex; the major change in coffee; the inventions he created while stuck in a hotel room; his and his friends reaction to drugs in college; whether the various public service announcements about drugs really work; religion getting in the way of life and death issues; why being considered a liberal suddenly has become a sin; the frustration of receiving sweepstakes entries in the mail; how everything we buy must come with some added incentive; Americans' love of guns and cars; why it appears that we elected the right President; the one-sided quality of presidential debates; why you have to be in a good mood all the time when you are the President; and why people should not worry about the relationship of the President and his wife.
(Contains adult-oriented language.)
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: January 4, 1997 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:56:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:25778
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV, 1997
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Bill Maher … Execuitve Producer, Writer
- Marc Gurvitz … Executive Producer
- Nancy Kurshner … Supervising Producer
- John Moffitt … Producer, Director
- Pat Tourk Lee … Producer
- Jeff Thorsen … Associate Producer
- Bill Maher … Performer