Bill Maher's Views

i. On Jay Leno, Bill Maher said he would give $5 million to charity if Donald Trump could produce his birth certificate proving that he was not the spawn of his mother and an orangutan.

Choosing between Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump, Colbert answered immediately: ‘Trump.He didn’t even make eye contact — he sat there like a bad schoolboy being lectured’’’ (hollywoodreporter.com). Due to Colbert’s previous interactions with the president, Colbert feels comfortable with his satirical approach to target Trumps administration.

Even though the common man is afraid to speak of delicate issues such as politics, religion, or current events, humorists such as stand-up comics to late-night television hosts are able to find a common ground. In order to get a positive reception from their audience, many television hosts place the issues aside and poke humor at the irony of the topic or person. For example, Jimmy Fallon, current host of The Tonight Show, is able to get his audience to laugh at political jokes because he does not directly tackle major, philosophical issues such as abortion, but talks about more subtle things like the appearance of presidential candidates. Notoriously, when doing a Donald Trump impersonation, Jimmy Fallon spray tans himself orange as if he was living on Jersey Shore. This ridiculous appearance

William F. Buckley JR. wanted to voice his position on conservative politics, and declare that the reason why people fail to complain or voice their opinions is due to the government. Early on in his essay, he communicates anecdotes that illustrate people who are passive in their daily lives. With the rise of technology the majority of Americans have become more less resilient in voicing their opinions, and Buckley connects this passive style of living to political apathy.

Donald Trump, current president, once said, “sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” A president is the leader of country or a division or part of a country. A good president is someone who takes quick action whenever problems threaten the nation, addresses key issues using his or her platform, and is knowledgeable about government. Donald John Trump was born on June 14th, 1946. He is the current 45th president of the United States. Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned and economies degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Sources believe this

As the GOP continues to implode, and as a field of 17 Republican candidates is narrowed down to three, one of whom, John Kasich, has virtually zero chance of capturing enough votes to ensure nomination, the very real prospect on a Trump or Cruz Presidency becoming reality is pretty terrifying. Thankfully we have people like Bill Maher to keep us laughing as the political world burns beneath the feet of these two rampaging monsters.

Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard, “Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency”, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2015, pp336, $30.00

Bill O’Reilly is the author of Killing Kennedy, and he wrote the book in 2012. O’Reilly was born in 1949 in New York City and later graduated from Marist College with a degree in history in the 1970s. Bill then taught high school for many years before going back to college to get a masters degree in journalism. Starting in the 1980s, O’Reilly began working in television becoming a correspondent for many different news stations. In the 1990s, Bill went back to school this time at Harvard to get a degree in public administration. Shortly after this O’Reilly began his own show on Fox News and years later began his own radio talk show. In the past few years Bill has written a number of books that were about different parts of history including Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. Since Bill O’Reilly has a background in history and even a degree in history so that makes him even more qualified to write a book on John F. Kennedy and his presidency. Also at the time of the Kennedy presidency O’Reilly was alive and an aware citizen of society. Since Bill O’Reilly lived through this part of history this makes him even more qualified to write about this time in America.

The whole reason Jon does this is because he wants to have people talk and say positive thing about him and for people to like his comedy. Comedy for him is probably entertaining and he likes to have fun will doing things. To me comedy is very funny and I like having a laugh here and there to you know entertain myself. Jon Stewart basically takes the news and re-writes them as a comedy show for others. Sometimes I think I can be stupuid but that’s what they like to do, to keep them selfs occupied. Sometimes you have to be really bored to change the news and make people

During his stand up he will usually talk about an experience he has or something his audience can relate to and he will sort of act the event as using different imitations of people in the events adding comedic effects. He has also been known to use politicals topics to make jokes but his humor is not the cleanest kind. But, he has received backlash over the years for the type of jokes he makes especially the political ones which some people took to heart and disagreed, but this is to be expected as no comedy is humorous to

Conservatives and liberals have completely different views of the purpose of government. Like two ends of a stick, their views are against one another although they should be the same. However, there is always a moderate position that can satisfy both extreme ends. As our title states, we should be united. My personal beliefs and ideals would be assisting me when finding the moderate views, for I'm neither a conservative nor a liberal; I believe in pleasing both ends, which, despite the stories, can be possible.

The book is about a series of events starting from the American Civil War and lasting to the final days of John Wilkes Booth’s plans to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford’s Theatre. Author, Bill O’Reilly is attempting to correct the misleading assumptions and alleged conspiracies that had taken place leading up to the events of Lincoln’s assassination and explain in detail the scenarios and what a ruthless person Booth really was. O’Reilly wrote the book to provide us the history of this war and how it changed after the death of Lincoln.

Bill O’Reilly uses humor and wordplay to engage the reader. My favorite phrase from his memoir was “even though he is eternally young, Peter Pan was getting kind of old” he said this when he was talking about finally getting to watch something other than a disney movie. He tells everything with no details left out. O’Reilly used imagery when describing the time he finally gave the annoying woman what she deserved, he wrote, “The child, distraught and panic-stricken, then dropped the sundae, and all that “extra” hot fudge hit the steamy, sticky pavement, immediately finding a comfortable home.”

Rick Moranis Vs. Bill Murray Comedy is an idea that vastly differentiates from person to person. Every person has a different sense of comedy and this is why there are multiple types of comedians from kid-friendly to vulgar humor. These two extremes of comedy are exemplified by Rick Moranis and Bill Murray.

Donald Trump recently gave a speech discussing rising Radical Islamic Terrorism, immigration from the Middle East, and a need for a rise in national security while Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13th 2016. He centers his whole speech around discussing how bad a President his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in difficult times. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968 with a bachelor 's degree in economics, and has become a very successful businessman. He’s the Republican nominee for this upcoming presidential election, and is a very controversial candidate and person. He has come under fire for many of his views that he discusses in his June 13th speech. While Trump does make some agreeably points, he renders his speech ineffective because of his heavy reliance on Clinton’s opinion to form his own. If Trump were to become President, his stance on important issues would need to be reached with careful consideration, and not just based on doing the opposite of his opponents.