Bill Maher Gears Up For Oscars Weekend With A Few ‘Real Time’ Zings At Hollywood
deadline.comBill Maher has Oscar fever, as he admitted at the top of his HBO Real Time on Friday. The malady always makes him think of his mortage.
That’s because “it seems to last 30 years and I have a very low interest rate.”There are a lot of remakes in this year’s field for Best Picture, Maher noted.
That includes Nightmare Alley, which is also the Republican plan for abortion, he claimed.Maher also touched on what may be the biggest surprise of the Oscars – that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky might appear. “He think Putin is a bloodthirsty maniac,” Maher observed. “Wait til he sees Twitter on Oscar night..” If Zelensky doesn’t make it, the Academy Awards has a backup plan in a similar vein: Nic Cage, “Who has survived a lot of bombs.”There’s also a rumor going around that the Q-Anon audience is suspicious that the Oscars are a false flag event.
After all, “There are a bunch of paid actors.”Later in the broadcast, Maher circled back to Hollywood and its tendency to imitate success.
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