Bill Maher is NOT feeling Stan Lee‘s legacy after the comic book legend’s passing!
The HBO host of Real Time took to his blog on Saturday morning and specifically trashed any adults who bought into Stan Lee’s work — even going so far as to compare it to the rise of Donald Trump!
Wait, what??
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Writing on his own blog about “Adulting,” Maher wrote in part that while he did like comic books as a kid, it’s about time grownups and adults give them up and move on to adult things (below):
“But then twenty years or so ago, something happened – adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff. And so they pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature. And because America has over 4,500 colleges – which means we need more professors than we have smart people – some dumb people got to be professors by writing theses with titles like Otherness and Heterodoxy in the Silver Surfer. And now when adults are forced to do grown-up things like buy auto insurance, they call it ‘adulting,’ and act like it’s some giant struggle.”
Wow!
Maher’s final flourish was even bigger, though, when he wrote this (below):
“I’m not saying we’ve necessarily gotten stupider. The average Joe is smarter in a lot of ways than he was in, say, the 1940s, when a big night out was a Three Stooges short and a Carmen Miranda musical. The problem is, we’re using our smarts on stupid stuff. I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.”
Damn…
What do y’all think, Perezcious readers?! Is he right, or WAY off base??? Let us know in the comments (below)…
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