Bill Maher Flays The Oscars -It Was Like, We Dare You To Be Entertained; Calls Out Elon Musk On Bitcoin – Deadline

Bill Maher detested this years Oscars, from the films especially Best Picture to last Sundays low-rated telecast that he said dared you to be entertained.It used to get Super Bowl numbers, said the host ofReal Time With Bill MaherFriday. Its like the winner who thanks everyone, says Go to bed kids and the babysitter texts back, They already did.

No jokes, no songs, not even any clips of when we used to have fun, he said.

Mincing no words, his New Rules segment pitched Nomadland the series. Move overThat Girl,Mary Tyler MooreandAlice. Theres a new girl in town and shes sh-tting in a bucket, he said. We loves that she drifts around in a van, but can she be 19 and hot? Maybe give her a different supporting cast. A handsome guy, a funny guy, a lesbian best friend and a dog? They can solve mysteries. Call me,

His full ire, however, was directed elsewhere. Nothing with crypto in the title ever turned out good. There is a mania rising in the nation these days. He mocked cryptocurrencies as pointless, arbitrary, impossible to understandable, a Ponzi scheme, a game and a massive drain on the planets energy. Bitcoins are created through a process called mining that uses massive supercomputing power and he said backers like Tesla CEO Elon Musk who care about the climate should know better.

I fully understand that our financial system isnt perfect, but at least its real. Apple stock is worth money because Apple makes thousand dollar phones that everyone buys and drops in the toilet.

Capitalism does let you make money in the existing field of money. But we knew money had to originate from and be generated by something real, somewhere. To which cryptocurrency says, No, it doesnt.

Nothing is ever actually being accomplished and no actual product made or service rendered. Its like Tinker Bells light. Its power source is based solely on enough children believing in it, he said. Our problem is not economic but psychological. People who have been raised in a virtual world are starting to believe they can really live in it.

Otherwise the comedian was pretty pleased with the state of things, mainly Joe Biden, his speech before Congress on Wednesday and his solid polls that are driving Fox News nuts. To keep its base fired up, he said, the network had to resort to headlines claiming Biden plans to cut 90% of red meat from Americans diets one burger a month and to cancel Fourth of July.

That was last week. He offered Fox a few new headlines for the week ahead: Trump border wall to be melted down for giant statue of Colin Kaepernick; Fauci: Babies in the womb must wear masks and, In all depictions of Jesus, the Crown of Thorns to be replaced by a P-ssy Hat.

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Bill Maher Flays The Oscars -It Was Like, We Dare You To Be Entertained; Calls Out Elon Musk On Bitcoin - Deadline