Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
Vox's Sean Illing talks with comedian Bill Maher about the risks and challenges of political comedy today, free speech, and whether ideology undermines humor. They discuss how Maher — who's been out front on issues like animal rights and climate change — has become such a lightning rod for a certain species of progressive.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox
Guest: Bill Maher (@billmaher), comedian; host of Real Time with Bill Maher
References:
Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO and Youtube
"10 Percent of Twitter users create 80 percent of tweets, study finds" by Ren LaForme (Poynter; Apr. 24, 2019)
"Americans and 'Cancel Culture': Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment" by Emily A. Vogels et al. (Pew Research; May 19)
Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app.
Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
This episode was made by:
Producer: Erikk Geannikis
Editor: Amy Drozdowska
VP, Vox Audio: Liz Kelly Nelson
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
View all episodes
By Vox
4.5
1059010,590 ratings
Vox's Sean Illing talks with comedian Bill Maher about the risks and challenges of political comedy today, free speech, and whether ideology undermines humor. They discuss how Maher — who's been out front on issues like animal rights and climate change — has become such a lightning rod for a certain species of progressive.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox
Guest: Bill Maher (@billmaher), comedian; host of Real Time with Bill Maher
References:
Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO and Youtube
"10 Percent of Twitter users create 80 percent of tweets, study finds" by Ren LaForme (Poynter; Apr. 24, 2019)
"Americans and 'Cancel Culture': Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment" by Emily A. Vogels et al. (Pew Research; May 19)
Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app.
Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
This episode was made by:
Producer: Erikk Geannikis
Editor: Amy Drozdowska
VP, Vox Audio: Liz Kelly Nelson
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
More shows like The Gray Area with Sean Illing
View all
The New Yorker Radio Hour
6,780 Listeners
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
4,044 Listeners
Explain It to Me
7,858 Listeners
Switched on Pop
2,683 Listeners
Pivot
9,501 Listeners
Gastropod
3,667 Listeners
Decoder with Nilay Patel
3,144 Listeners
The Daily
112,049 Listeners
Good One
1,484 Listeners
Radio Atlantic
2,275 Listeners
The Atlantic Interview
2,136 Listeners
Today, Explained
10,203 Listeners
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
7,226 Listeners
Throughline
16,363 Listeners
Land of the Giants
2,166 Listeners
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
5,985 Listeners
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
23,583 Listeners
A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe
728 Listeners
Hard Fork
5,511 Listeners
Good Noticings
6,477 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
15,845 Listeners
Unexplainable
2,316 Listeners
Cover Story
1,220 Listeners
The Interview
1,587 Listeners
Not Just Football with Cam Heyward
152 Listeners
On with Kara Swisher
3,537 Listeners
Networth and Chill with Your Rich BFF
1,747 Listeners
Prof G Markets
1,431 Listeners
The Opinions
618 Listeners
Bird's Eye View with Sue Bird
440 Listeners
Solutions with Henry Blodget
31 Listeners