Woody Allen, a person who married his personal step-daughter when she was simply 22 years outdated and he was in his late 50s, doesn’t look like the creepiest or least nice particular person within the room throughout his current interview with Invoice Maher on the Membership Random podcast. This doesn’t imply that Allen doesn’t come off as creepy; it’s merely that Maher looks like the more severe particular person between the 2.
Whereas it might sound a bit stunning that Allen was even guesting on Maher’s podcast within the first place, those that have had the misfortune of following Maher’s antics will know that it’s the logical endpoint of his avid protection of Allen. Again in 2024 Maher informed Katie Couric that the actors who expressed remorse for working with Allen have been “a bunch of pussies” and that he didn’t “suppose he dedicated that crime.”
To listen to Maher inform it, you’d suppose that the allegations of Allen molesting his step-children within the Nineties — or the resurfacing of the allegations within the 2010s — completely ended Allen’s profession. That is what he informed Couric. That it was just a few huge media witch hunt for a man he believed was completely harmless. To Maher, Allen is Sarah Good.
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Within the 90-minute episode of Membership Random that was posted to YouTube on Monday, Maher repeatedly tried to get Allen to endorse Maher’s campaign in opposition to the actors and media who “ruined his profession.” However Allen actually didn’t appear too bothered by the entire state of affairs. When Maher repeatedly tried to bait Allen into getting indignant at Greta Gerwig and Timothée Chalamet for talking out about their regrets for working with Allen, his response was primarily “meh.”
“I’ve had fun working with each of them,” Allen defined. “And so they suppose that they’re doing one thing honorable or useful, however they’re not.”
To this comparatively measured (if not stuffed with shit) response, Maher cried: “They’re sheep!”
It’s telling that Allen is ready to acknowledge that his profession wasn’t in any important approach hindered by the allegations that he was a pedophile molesting and grooming youngsters he was meant to take care of whereas Maher shouldn’t be. And Allen is correct: He wrote and directed quite a few Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning movies for the reason that accusations first surfaced and for practically twenty years after the actual fact.
Allen’s comparatively chill response makes him look like a delicate pervert in comparison with Maher’s rage-baiting, aggressive interview type. Maher’s in such rabid type that even followers of the present known as for him to cease speaking. A quick sampling of the feedback on the YouTube video:
- “My expensive Invoice, with all my heartfelt admiration please take heed to this: LET YOUR GUESTS TALK!!!!!!!”
- “What a possibility to interview Woody Allen and never let him speak. You blew it Invoice.
- “Invoice ought to merely sit in entrance of a mirror and interview himself.”
- “Woody Allen lastly will get the prospect to interview Invoice Maher.”
In on a regular basis he spent speaking over Allen, Maher by no means observed that it’s bizarre for Allen to be extra conscious that he made it out of the #MeToo motion comparatively unscathed than the particular person interviewing him. As somebody who says he’s actually in opposition to individuals who “overlook child-fucking,” Maher spends way more of his time coming to the general public protection of individuals accused of stated child-fucking relatively than denouncing it. He’s all the time attempting to level out the logical fallacies of those that converse out in opposition to sexual abuse, whereas making area to victimize the alleged perpetrators. In Maher’s mind, individuals are solely citing allegations of abuse after they have an ulterior motive. That finally says extra in regards to the Actual Time host than it does his targets.
Allen in all probability doesn’t admire Maher projecting his personal fears of career-sabotage-via-credible-allegations onto his personal lengthy and storied success in Hollywood. Allen’s life might be unimaginable. Actually, the worst a part of being Woody Allen in 2025 is certainly insisting to Invoice Maher that it doesn’t suck to be Woody Allen.
