Product Details

• Actors: Bill Maher
• Directors: Keith Truesdell
• Writers: Bill Maher
• Producers: Bill Maher, Marc Gurvitz, Sandy Chanley, Scott Butler, Tom Bull
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007G89GY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,507 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bill Maher - Be More Cynical" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

DOING WHAT HE LOVES MOST, MAHER RIPS THROUGH A HORDE OF CONTEMPORARY TOPICS, FROM THE EVILS OF BIG GOVERNMENT TO THEBEWILDERING POWER WOMEN HAVE OVER MEN. MAHER DELIVERS A LANDMARK PERFORMANCE THAT RE-AFFIRMS HIS STATUS AS ONE OF TODAY'S BRIGHTEST COMEDIANS. FILMED LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

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43 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent souvenir of a Bill Maher show!, May 3, 2005

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Nicholas Carroll (Portland OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bill Maher - Be More Cynical (DVD)

I finally got to see Bill Maher on tour last year and it was two hours of very profound statements with a funny delivery. Him, along with Henry Rollins, are the masters of the spoken word. I can listen to both rant for hours on end about the state of our country. They are dead on accurate, with biting humor to boot!

This DVD is from a show in San Francisco sometime in the summer of 2000. Although it doesn't give a date on the DVD, you know from Bill Maher that his comments are current, so if you're expecting to hear him speak about the war in Iraq or Abu Ghraib...those were things he discussed on his tour last year (which I hope will be released on DVD). On this DVD, he talks about his usual favorite subjects...drugs, the annoyance of children, complaints about women's dishonesty, defense of Clinton's affair with an intern, the idiocy of Bush and the Republican party, and his skewering of religious ideology. I particularly loved that this DVD included a reaction when some unseen audience member in the balcony yelled out to Bill that "Jesus saves!" His reaction and irreverent comments are downright funny and right on target! I loved how he compared unbelievable Bible stories that people believe literally happened with equivalent fairy tales that no one believes happened (he compared the apple from the forbidden tree in Genesis to the poison apple of "Snow White" and other similiar comparisons). To hear him say that does point out the obvious...why believe one but not the other? And what does believing in one but not the other have anything to do with how you treat people?

Bill does claim to believe in God on this DVD, though I always had the impression that he was an atheist. He defends Jesus from the people who claim to be the most devout followers...Bill simply is a man who's too smart for his own good. I'm a Bill Maher fan...as his show "Politically Incorrect" was part of my TV diet during my college years. I don't agree with him on every topic (such as drugs), but I do think he's a smart man who does his homework and probably knows a lot more about the world than our current president. Bill Maher is someone who should be running our country right now! This DVD is for his fans out there. Watch it and laugh.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You've got to admire the honesty; I love this man....., September 3, 2008

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Medusa (Troy, MI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bill Maher - Be More Cynical (DVD)

Bill Maher, the timid observer, always has something to say about politics and society.
I was always amazed by how obvious his observations were, and how blind people choose to be.
True, be more cynical is few years old, but it is as funny and accurate as "The Decider".

Finally some body agrees with me on the big deal made over Clinton's scandal, Lady Diana's image, Al Gore, Reagan, and Bush junior, especially junior. Listen to Bill's observations about advertisement, drugs, republicans, death, religion (how religions are manipulated by people and how faith in God doesn't necessarily lead you to religion), aging (menopause = men on pause), the protected classes and their double standards (especially women), Barbie and Ken (Ken comes separately), and the male agenda "men are as loyal as their options, women should stop complaining about men until they develop better taste in them.....".

I especially enjoy how Bill reacts when some audience rudely interrupts him, I actually wish for that to happen. I just love how witty and ready Bill is; even Medusa might not keep up with him.

When Maher refers to Clinton's levels of lies, it finally occurred to me why people like Maher don't choose politics; they simply can't lie. I believe the world would be much better if more clean minds like Maher existed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Rule, October 27, 2007

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J. Ronthi "TheGreatSwindle" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bill Maher - Be More Cynical (DVD)

New Rule: Don't review a product on the basis of it being a few years out of date by the time you got it. 'It was released in 2005, but it's from 2000--I've been dupped!'

Come on now. Just look at his full head of hair on the cover. So you get some very funny commentary on the Clintons and the issues of the day, circa negative 5 years. Wow, someone got taken to ringer!

This DVD is a classic, through and through. This contains some of his best comedy since the late 80's-early 90's. Very funny stuff, well executed.

This DVD takes us back to a better time, but Maher never let's us forget the idiocy of both parties and the trouble with political contention.

Great show.