"I always laugh when people say 'tour,' " he said in a telephone interview, "like I'm the Rolling Stones and it's been going on for two years."
OK, so it's not Steel Wheels. But on second thought, Maher said, maybe it is a tour. He's on the road three nights a week – which he has time to do, since his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher is on hiatus until Aug. 29 – and the performance consists of all-new material.
Whatever this is, it's certainly a chance to see one of the smartest and most controversial political comics working today. You can always count on Maher to say what he thinks. And that's what he did in our interview, which covered topics such as his talk shows (1993-2002's Politically Incorrect and Real Time, going into its sixth season), his upcoming movie about religion, Religulous (pronounced like "ridiculous," out Oct. 3), politics and anything else we could fit into 15 minutes.
Q: What's wrong with this country?
A: Basically, the people are too stupid to be governed. I saw yesterday that two-thirds of the American public now thinks it would be a good idea to drill for more oil, when even oil people like T. Boone Pickens are telling everyone this is not the answer. It's not going to make your gas prices go down, it's only going to hurt the environment more, it's going to keep us stuck in the past. (New York Times columnist) Tom Friedman had a great analogy: He said it's as if in 1980, someone was clamoring for more IBM Selectric typewriters. Forget about this Internet stuff. It's going nowhere.
Plainly, we have to hitch our wagon to different kinds of energy sources. They're available. We could do it. It just seems incredibly selfish of the president to push for this drilling solution – which is no solution – and it's just so depressing that it takes so little to convince the people of something so erroneous.
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