By Jiminy

It's been much too long since we've gone Out and About with Jiminy Glick, so let's rectify that tonight.

​​Bill Maher has a new book out, and so of course he couldn’t interview himself -- therefore, he instead invited Jiminy Glick to his show.  And the result is wonderful. 

That said, Maher comes close to screwing it up.  Every other guest takes it totally straight, and only on a few rare occasions can you see them fighting not to break up.  Maher laughs throughout.  In fairness, I think some of that might be because there's an audience, which becomes infectious.  However, I also think he handles it more like a promotion for his book, which it is, rather than a standard Jiminy Glick "interview", so he seems to try to push it a little more about himself, which adds to taking us out a bit from the Jiminy Glick "bubble".  But all that aside, it's nonetheless still very funny.)
 
And being Maher, I hated how he talks about COVID and that "They got a lot of things wrong" (which only feeds anti-vaxxers, even though he isn't one, just a contrarian).  Yet all he mentions, and with great certainty, is that the virus came from a lab because the NY Times says so.  First, that has zero to do with the vaccines and their efficacies.  And second, Dr. Fauci has been interviewed this past week a lot for his book, and he (who knows a lot more than Maher) explains that several intel and health services say they still believe it came from human markets and animal transference.  Dr. Fauci says his own belief is that he thinks that’s most likely, but doesn’t know and he’s kept an open mind – and because we don’t know and probably never will because the Chinese are too secretive, he says we should consider both conditions as possible and work to create protections against both.  Further, I thought it was very "unfair" for him to dive that way in a Jiminy Glick interview, since he knows Jiminy is not going to debate health care and COVID facts with him.
 
Sorry, that’s off-topic.  The point is Jiminy Glick is great, and so let’s go out-and-about with him.

P.S.  I should add that Martin Short is guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel's talk show this week, and had a wonderful "Out and About" interview as Jiminy with Bill Hader.  And best of all, on Thursday he'll be hosting the show entirely as Jiminy Glick!  More about that tomorrow.

Okay, back to Jiminy and Bill Maher --
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