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Bill Maher Proposes Court to Pardon the Canceled

At least this time, Bill “Everyone Can Be Canceled!” Maher was talking to an entertainer who was actually canceled. On the latest edition of his Club Random podcast, Armie Hammer discussed the real-world consequences of his sex kink/cannibalism/alleged assault scandal. In its aftermath in 2022, Variety reported that Hammer was “totally broke” and selling time-shares in the Cayman Islands. “I loved it,” Hammer told Maher. “It is so fun.”

Maher couldn’t believe Hammer, whose father Armond was an oil tycoon who eventually bought into the Arm and Hammer baking soda dynasty, needed the Cayman cash. “It’s so complicated,” explained the actor, insisting that family members with money always attach strings. “I would rather go get a job selling time-shares. I applied for a job to be a drama teacher. I applied for a job to be a landscaper. I applied for a job to be a building manager.”

Norm Macdonald’s Darkest Bits

While some comedians might be swayed not to tell a joke because it’s offensive or it’s unnecessarily mean or it deals with the deaths of millions of people, the late Norm Macdonald only cared if a joke was funny, poor taste be damned. 

Here are 11 such bits that take the darkest of topics and turn them into something you can’t help but laugh at…

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