Bill Maher to San Diego State University student: 'Try to get a clue'

Jaleesa Jones | college.usatoday.com

Comedian and late-night talk show host Bill Maher called a San Diego State University student “a little shit” during his June 19, 2015 taping of Real Time.

The jab comes after rising junior Anthony Berteaux, a campus editor-at-large with the Huffington Post, wrote an open letter to Jerry Seinfeld in response to Seinfeld's interview with ESPN Radio, during which Seinfeld said that college campuses are too "PC" and that younger generations do not know the true definition of racism or sexism.



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In his OpEd, Berteaux wrote:



It isn't so much that college students are too politically correct (whatever your definition of that concept is), it's that comedy in our progressive society today can no longer afford to be crass, or provocative for the sake of being offensive... Provocative humor, such as ones dealing with topics of race and gender politics, can be crass and vulgar, but underlying it must be a context that spurs social dialogue about these respective issues. There needs to be a message, a central truth behind comedy for it to work as humor.

Maher added that he wished the late comedian was still alive to respond to Berteaux’s comments.

“But since he can't, allow me,” Maher said. “Dear you little shit, I'm sure you’re busy with your new letter explaining astrophysics to Stephen Hawking and giving jump shot pointers to Steph Curry, but try to get a clue.”





Jaleesa Jones is a summer 2015 USA TODAY College intern and a recent alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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