Plants in Bill Maher's audience

Sorry if this is super specific, but I am 100 percent convinced that small handfuls of audience members, like 2-4 people, are being paid to laugh at Bill Maher's show. I like Bill Maher, and I like Real Time, but over the years, and especially after the pandemic, when he had an audience back, it became apparent he was becoming less and less tolerant of people not laughing during the monologue, or god forbid, groaning, and it was affecting his mood. A few weeks ago I began noticing people in the audience laughing really hard over jokes that were, you know, okay. It became even more apparent with this week's episode. There was a woman who was howling throughout the entire hour. And again, nothing was all that side-splittingly funny. I like Bill Maher, but I do think he has very thin skin and it's possible that without his knowledge producers put laughers in the audience so he'd feel more comfortable.

Submitted November 20, 2022 at 01:14AM by forcedfan https://ift.tt/sn8FNPA