For all I know the 2 men planned this scene together, but I will not accept the alternative that Ramaswamy didn't see the joke and just got pranked. Watch it unfold (and watch the rest of the video) here:
August 21, 2023
I want to watch this whole Bill Maher interview with Vivek Ramaswamy, but I must stop 25 seconds in to share this screenshot.
I got distracted by Maher's high jinks with the zucchini (and I credit Ramaswamy with knowing Maher was choreographing to get this screen shot):
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A small zucchini the size of a large zucchini. ZucchiniBros....we are so back!
Really? Maher was pulling a phallus prank on Vivek? You have an active, and slightly prurient, imagination. Sometimes a proud zucchini grower is just a proud zucchini grower.
I like how the interview starts out talking about the vigor needed to run for President, and how being 38 is helpful. Left unsaid but inferred plenty, and also true: Biden is old and weak.
"Really? Maher was pulling a phallus prank on Vivek? You have an active, and slightly prurient, imagination...."
It's not subtle.
Plus the 2 men go on to talk about it explicitly. Maher uses the phrase "elephant cock" and then Ramaswamy himself utters those words (and not like he's surprised).
TV, especially in shows like Maher's, stays true to its vaudeville ancestry.
Who watches Bill Maher? At best his best, he’s a couple shades short of sophomoric.
He’s that buffoon that taught me how-to roll rubber cement boogers, and flick them around the 4th grade classroom.
I didn't see a dick joke either. I did see that Maher was high when he walked out and then lit up a huge joint which, although legal in California, would seem to be the more contentious issue.
He barely hit the joint, but was flashing it and trimming it throughout the clip. He didn't offer it to Ramaswamy so he didn't have to refuse. That was the set-up.
For reference.
Why would it be funny even if that's what it was. Naughty is only one component of a joke, it needs two more, like clever or unexpected.
Maher is a weird fuck. He had Riley Gaines on and among the many inappropriate and insulting things he did was to go to great lengths (no pun intended) to try and convince her that short men CAN be well-endowed.
Maher - the putz - stands 5’8”.
>Ann Althouse said...
It's not subtle.<
Yeah, what else could it possibly mean? I'm just obtuse, I guess. Hmm, one of the women in my bridge group brought in some large zucchinis last week - and actually handed me one of them. Damn, I think maybe I need to chat her up a bit more this week!
Didn't Bradley Cooper come under fire for doing Jew Nose? Why not Mahr? That schnoz is as fake as the Elephant Cock he's holding.
Im amazed Maher doesn't tip over. the rest of puny body can barely support that big nose. If I was Maher I'd avoid being seen in a short sleeve shirt. Of course, a paper bag would do wonders for his looks.
Maher has a face for radio. Unfortunately, you can’t do zucchini-phallic visual gags in a radio broadcast......and so here we are!
He is sucking down too much bandwidth.
Vivek......is this the same guy running for the Republican nomination. He sounded reasonable.
Just appearing with Maher..........he’s lost me.
I home that Ramaswamy gets the nomination just so I can hear Biden butcher his name.
Oh my Vivek is so fresh that it's refreshing. That old stoned guy is just the opposite.
Reminds me of an exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of Roman sculpture that amounted to a dozen 6 foot tall Phallus statues used as welcoming entrance statues that were the symbolic
of the power of the owner of a Roman house. Made my home welcome mat
feel comparatively small. So we upgraded the mat big time when we got home.
Ramaswamy is a winner. What will The Donald do about him? Probably ignore him.
It is only a rumor that Maher once ended up in the ER to have a zucchini removed from an orifice.
Maybe it's just me, but that does not look like a particularly large zucchini. A little bigger than average, but that's it.
In the world of zucchini - smaller is better. Large zucchini sitting in the garden too long are often bitter.
Small is better!
Looked like a giant distraction so Bill would waste as much time as possible not talking to Vivek about anything substantial.
Bill is a loyal democrat after all.
LOL there is no way Bill Maher would publicly support any Republican, no matter how much they pandered to the Trump haters. Such a lying f*ckface.
I watched the whole thing. My biggest take away is I've been wrong thinking Maher had found some common sense in his old age.
In the world of zucchini - smaller is better. Large zucchini sitting in the garden too long are often bitter.
I doubt I'd admit to knowing that much about co... er, zucchini... yes, zucchini (that's the ticket), particularly regarding their flavor.
Smaller is better!
An utterance commonly overheard in a Planet Fitness locker room.
It is even an insult to give someone a large zucchini - due to the known bitter quality.
Rocco writes, Maybe it's just me, but that does not look like a particularly large zucchini.
Believe him. Italians pride themselves on the size of their co... (dammit!) zucchini. Don't give that look, I wrote zucchini; it's a gord, a squash -- nothing else. Such dirty minds, you Althouse perverts ought to get right with Jesus.
Maher is a prick, and proof that being only marginally smarter than the average can be parlayed into celebrity.
I baled at the 2 minute mark or so.
My zucchini is bigger.
If Vivek was a Dem, the elephant comment would be twisted to be racist, since they have elephants in India or something.
Bill has flipped back to annoying loyal proggy mode. white & pastey.
But sex, drugs and abortion...
good gravy - a FFed to the point where Maher is obsessing and harassing Vivek to admit Joe Biden won the 2020 election over and over.
Geeez- what is it with the left and their election litmus tests.
F off, Bill.
Bill Maher cannot shut up about Trump. Jeeez how boring. It's a national infection. a Contagion a... TDS is metastasized brain-cancer on the prog left.
Just appearing with Maher..........he’s lost me.
Is there still a perception these talk show old farts are king makers?
As I’d mentioned on last evening’s overnight thread, it was amusing to watch the substance-addled Maher try to stay up with Mr. Ramaswamy… full display of beschnozzled, intense TDS and just a bumfuzzled attempt at sounding coherent.
It’s telling that lefties look to their comedians for political insight and strategies. Always a fustercluck…
Empty, soulless, black girlfriend abusing old corksoaker Bill Maher.
"Just appearing with Maher..........he’s lost me."
Really? That's all it takes?
Trump spent as much money and pushed us into terrible national debt as much as any leftwing dem. That never seemed to bother any of his loyalists.
he was huntress deranged before this, I find maher a loathsome human being
Sometimes a zucchini is just a zucchini
Well, at least they didn't talk about Donald Trump's 2 inch zucchini. So you have to give them credit for that. Not everything is always about Trump.
I normally like Maher, but his in the tank blather taking seriously the idea that Trump was colluding with Russia is astounding and dismaying to me. He completely mangled the trivial comments Papadopoulos made to that Australian diplomat. He clearly knows virtually nothing about all that. Meanwhile, Vivek is way too taken with himself. I like a lot of what he says, but he's got a lot of road of life yet to cover.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
"In the world of zucchini - smaller is better. Large zucchini sitting in the garden too long are often bitter."
True, but there are ways to deal with the problems of larger zucchinis. I put mine into muffins.
That opening was weird, but then Maher was unhinged over Trump and Ramaswamy handled him reasonably well. My takeaway is that Maher shouldn't have been so wasted. Ramaswamy comes off as nimble.
Vivek tan intellect circles around Bill Maher who still believes the Russia bullshit.
Gotta give Vivek credit for getting in the ring while RDS hides in FL.
I put mine into muffins.
More phallic imagery! You people are sick, sick, SICK!
I'll never eat ratatouille again (sniff).
I was actually shocked at Maher's ignorance of Russia! Russia! Russia!
1. I kept thinking that Ramaswami was talking way too fast until I remembered that I had it at 2X the speed- and thank God because even at that speed Bill Maher spoke too slowly.
2. The zucchini shtick was such an old guy joke. Maher, along with Biden, is no village elder.
3. You can see the temptation that candidates are exposed to - “if you just modify your stand on x a tiny bit you’ll get this or that voting block.”
4. Ramaswami is excellent. The more impressive conversation, though, was with Jordan Peterson.
LLR lonejustice: "Well, at least they didn't talk about Donald Trump's 2 inch zucchini. So you have to give them credit for that. Not everything is always about Trump."
Its never too late to delete a post where you have beclowned and embarrassed yourself....again.
Maybe next time you might even avoid hitting "Publish" before you post for the first time.
Whose noses Johnsons, Nixons, Carters, Trump? Let's examine noses!?
What a bunch of children. Serious shit is happening all over, and we're supposed to care about some trivial sexual metaphor?
Grow up.
My apologies to Ramaswamy - for some reason I keep spelling his name with an i at the end!
Maher needs a nose job.
So how did Hunter Biden's dick pics show up in a Ramaswamy guest appearance? Vivek doesn't appear to have a large bulge between his legs.
Next, we will likely find balcony-seeker Ron DeSantis calling Ramaswamy, "Shorty" in the upcoming debate.
My zucchini. My zucchini. I want you to play with my ....
Chuck Berry did it best.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=chuck+berry+my+ding-a+-ling&mid=001BC2DD195733C3EEE1001BC2DD195733C3EEE1
I noted that Ramaswamy has started to go beyond his "commandments"and is now expressing certain future policy statements that he would favor, such as no longer defending Taiwan against China's actions (after 2028) and no longer providing military aid to Israel (also after 2028 - a year that apparently has some special significance to him). Everybody cool with such potential policies?
Whether for him or not, I'm glad to see such probing and vetting. A bright intellect alone is not a sufficient reason to make him a serious presidential candidate, no matter how welcome that change would be in that office.
Now imagine Ramaswamy acting like an adult, being bemused but observing that he is a conservative candidate advocating for a set of cultural norms that don't include dick jokes and drug use. Imagine him actually challenging Maher on the issues Maher is forcing in his face: the current gender wars, what they're doing to girls and boys, drug use and the collapse of California, the border.
That's the difference between being articulate and articulating something. This is sad pandering to the Left, not challenging their platform. Who does this guy think he needs as voters? Pot smoking dick pullers? It's always the same damn problem when a candidate's base exists in his head. Humiliate the Right, pander to the Left. Insulting and weak. This is expertise on how to use the media? How to defend our principles against the MSM hellbent to eliminate them?
Show, don't tell. Freshman Comp. 101.
"Let's examine noses!?"
Afterward, do we get to pick one?
Tina - I don't think Vivek did that here
Also - Bill talked over Vivek in normal standard leftist totalitarian fashion.
Hunter tax payer: I couldn't watch the whole thing this morning, but the part I saw wasn't handled well by Vivek. If he's not tough enough to own stoned shrinking Bill Maher, after choosing to go on the show, then he either thinks he can win over Maher's audience (he can't), or he doesn't respect the bases he should be courting right now. Either way, it doesn't show good judgment. He has to get through the Primary first. He's acting as if he's in the general election.
He needs to convince conservative voters that he's not going to be one more squish pandering to the Left when it suits his ambitions. I'm not seeing it yet.
“It doesn’t show good judgement [to go on Bill Maher’s show.]”
Hey, Hillary Clinton went on with Zach Galifianakis: (last minute is best)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrkPe-9rM1Q
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