Bill Maher was once a relevant voice in the world of politics and pop culture but these days he’s the talking head your Boomer parents think you might relate to because, in between jokes about transgender people and how “woke” is ruining the country, he smokes weed.
Maher spent a sizable chunk of the latest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher lodging his complaints about watching football on streaming services. Timed to Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX, the discussion kicks off with a comment about how “it’s probably one of the last ones to be shown on broadcast TV” and only gets more Boomer as it goes.
Maher’s rant has all the painfully unfunny, out-of-touch hallmarks you might expect, including blaming his own inability to know how to use a streaming service on it’s inefficiency.
“What’s so bad about streaming football, you ask?” asks Maher. “Well, for one, I used to be able to switch between two games in just a second by hitting previous on the remote. But on YouTube TV, I have to go back to the homepage, go to sports, go to NFL, then scroll across to find the second game you want to check on, wait for the circle-y thing to calm down. I tell ya, it’s easier to switch between sexes in America than it is to switch between football games.”
Ther had to be complaints about commercials, too, paired with the most 1997 joke possible.
“Unlike old TV, where I might have DVR’d the game to watch later after it was over and I could zip through the commercials, streaming purposefully makes it so you can’t do that,” said Maher. “They don’t let you see what you’re fast-forwarding through. There’s no way to tell where the commercials end and the action resumes. The start of the third quarter is harder to find than the G-spot.”
Maher then pivots into a discussion around “reverse improvement” and enshittification, not to mention the worthlessness of most tech CEOs and their plans for the world, which makes for a much more valid conversation.
Of course, there are trade-offs with the emergence of more NFL and college football programming on streaming services. But you probably wouldn’t be surprised that people had similiar complaints when football games starting showing up on cable channels, too. The world keeps spinning and people will always complain about learning a new way to do old things.
The Super Bowl will be available to stream for free on Tubi this year. We’ll see how The Olds find a way to complain about that.
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