Bob Costas: Back on the Record | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Published on May 28, 2021

Sportscasting legend Bob Costas joins Bill to discuss the IOC’s controversial decision to move forward with the Tokyo Olympics and its cozy relationship with authoritarian regimes.

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143 comments

  • Pattern Cast 3 years ago

    Bob’s facelifts are not very natural. Ouch.

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  • Vadim Elagin 3 years ago

    Boycott that crap, hurt the damn athletes. They won’t be doing too bad anyway. Maybe will pick some less ridiculous jobs for the time.

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  • Matt Phillips 3 years ago

    Wow….Bob needs to fire his cosmetic surgeon. Like, yesterday.

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  • Oleg Pustovoy 3 years ago

    The biggest cheaters and abusers in the world ,you Shouldn’t open your stupid mouth, to criticize somebody who not even close to the level of Lies and brutality from United States.

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  • Matt M 3 years ago

    can they just hold the games in Greece forever?

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  • Matt M 3 years ago

    if you boycott the olympics to hurt the ioc then you’re not trying to hurt a government…

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  • Steve Brown 3 years ago

    Costas has had plastic surgery and no longer looks like Bob Costas.
    That’s horrible.
    Why do people do this?

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  • George Washington 3 years ago

    Hell of a dye job Bob

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  • Bartleby Jonze 3 years ago

    Bob Costas never met a boring back story that he didn’t blather on about. So glad he has largely gone away.

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  • Nathaniel Krefman 3 years ago

    Bob Costa needs to stop having plastic surgery.

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  • Napoléon I Bonaparte 3 years ago

    We should permanently settle the location of the Olympics to Greece, because they need that tourism money more than every other country.

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  • Andrea Carrizal 3 years ago

    I don’t like to be touched!

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  • Jeremy Blank 3 years ago

    Washington has an affinity for authoritarian regimes, why are we worried about this?

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  • Frank Godinez 3 years ago

    If America really had a problem with authoritarian regimes like China, we would have never shipped all of our jobs over there. Funny how it only counts for the Olympics to boycott them.

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  • Ten Bird Nim 3 years ago

    Is Chyna the greatest evil of our time or all time?

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  • travis wilson 3 years ago

    I never even realized how legendary this man was, it was just ingrained in me that the Olympics are associated with this man’s voice no questions about it.

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  • Reece 3 years ago

    Booooooo

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  • Esteban Morales 3 years ago

    So what did Russia do? They covered his sheats in feces? #PinkEye

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  • New Message 3 years ago

    I’m with Bill there. Unless you’re making a move… don’t put your greasy paws on me. Pandemic or not, I don’t want you, or your snotty kids within arms reach of me.

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  • Timothy M 3 years ago

    No…no boycott, no delay. Do what it takes to hold the games this year. The athletes/coaches etc worked their entire lives for this moment. The least we can do is to let them have it…

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  • Rundstedt2001 3 years ago

    I smell BOTOX and facelifts….wtf

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  • Dennis Bunik 3 years ago

    “the only reason we watch the olympics is so we can watch our athletes beating up on foreigners”…Bill Maher

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  • scrtwpnx 3 years ago

    china’s a threat to taiwan? lol please tell me why the US wont give taiwain any vaccines lol. it’s time taiwan went back to china.

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  • JuICyBLiinGeR 3 years ago

    Omg you gotta stop saying Negro leagues !!!!!!!

    Fucking hell.

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  • Janet Hall 3 years ago

    Love the interview with Bob.Always a fan.

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  • Mark Stevens II 3 years ago

    I’m glad Bob opened up about the Olympics. NBC has always drove me nuts with sob stories and frequent commercials. Honestly, the opening and closing ceremonies are the only things that truly interest me.

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  • Laughin Lori 3 years ago

    During the 1992 Olympics the Canadian synchronized swimmer was awarded the silver medal and the US swimmer the gold. A judge immediately said I punched in 8.7 in error I meant to enter 9.7, which would have given the Canadian the gold. American commentators stated that the rules are the rules the US swimmer was the rightful winner.The Canadian swimmer was shown graciously saying she was happy with silver. Very Anerican slant, I can imagine what Costas would have been saying if the US had lost the gold the same way.

    Oh wait I didn’t have to imagine. The next segment was about how the officials screwed the Americans out of the 1972 gold mens basketball medal. Did the US team graciously accept the silver? No the team refused to accept their medals and here we are still whining about it 20 YEARS later. But the Canadian should be happy with her silver. Almost 30 years later and I remember my disgust at the US media not even attempting to be remotely balanced.

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  • J Lee 3 years ago

    HBO died when boxing left

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  • Balsam McVinegar 3 years ago

    Boob.

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  • Dan Meyers 3 years ago

    Nothing more pathetic than a 70 year old man who dyes his hair and gets plastic surgery to remove wrinkles.

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  • Jeda Benel 3 years ago

    The Chinese are knocking on the door of tomorrow’s history … and you have not yet decided who the president is?
    Dear America, you have lost your mind !!!

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  • Rayzersword 3 years ago

    “I don’t want anyone to touch me unless they mean business.” First sensible thing Bill said in this episode lol at least it wasn’t all bad. XD

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  • Jeda Benel 3 years ago

    Dear America.
    You are destroying the foundations of democracy. While the Chinese are conquering the world.
    Before my eyes and mind, I am watching the end of an empire, while 20% of Americans believe Jesus the Son will return in their lives !! Moreover,
    And the election was stolen from the foolish criminal idiot, the chauvinist and the cursed racist.
    The God of the imagination will not save you, he does not exist !!
    A divided United States will not stand up to hegemonic China!
    And we will wake up in a nightmare dream in the Chinese language. The world is watching in anxiety and fear in the face of a billion and a half Chinese.

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  • Brother Dog 3 years ago

    From what I remember the first “cancel” was fox”news?” cancelling France and French Fries.

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  • Crypto Knight 3 years ago

    So he does business with kids

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  • Andrew James 3 years ago

    How much work had Bob then done, holy shit.

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  • mary hershelman 3 years ago

    George W gave President Obama a bottle of Purell and told him to use it religiously.

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  • RealCoolGuy 3 years ago

    “All these streaming shows that should be just a movie. Just make it into one f**king movie.” I’ve never agreed with Bill Maher more than this statement.

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  • Jay Switzer 3 years ago

    can’t you guys see how dark this video is? pure incompetence. But these days people don’t get fired for doing a shitty editing job because they are already paid as little as legally possible.

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  • Richard B 3 years ago

    Bob C is a class act!

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  • Glnn Chrstphr 3 years ago

    I agree with Bill. Costas is the best.

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  • iandhr1 3 years ago

    Bob is not only a great broadcaster he is a really interesting person.

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  • milojko mustafovic 3 years ago

    Bob Costas, work done?

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  • Nap Mcdan 3 years ago

    Bob, unlike Bill, the NBA, and Hollywood in general, has the balls to call out the Chinese Communist regime. I thank him for that.

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  • Studio DaVeed 3 years ago

    Remember; every, EVERY hand you shake recently touched genitalia.

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  • Eduardo Grasso TV 3 years ago

    You got to do what Americans do… Win as much gold as possible on those games, better than boycotting

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  • Colin Weiss 3 years ago

    wow, Bob has finally aged, dude didn’t age for like 30 years. crazy to see he’s finally elderly. still love him.

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  • Matthew Blythe 3 years ago

    look at how much plastic surgery bob costas has gotten, jeez

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  • John Maddux 3 years ago

    Food for thought for the people to read the comments the sport of sailing; is almost virtually unable to be stacking the deck against the opponents are cheating. Which makes it one of the most purest sports out there however NBC probably will not give the value of the sport as needed which makes it the most underrated sport ever. Please comment on my comment and let me know your thoughts and feelings about it

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  • Chris Bowman 3 years ago

    Eat healthy, get some exercise, sleep enough. If your immune system is healthy, hug and shake as many hands as you want. C’mon – our entire evolution was with all the microorganisms and viruses on this planet.

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  • C Rogers 3 years ago

    Bill said he only tunes in to hear Bob is the dumbest thing he has ever said. Well almost. Yeah, I tune in to a football game to only listen to the voice of the announcer.

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  • Kathryn Tate 3 years ago

    Very nice guest.

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  • Thomas Mulligan 3 years ago

    Bob has always willing speak out even if it might cost him a job. Whether it was the IOC when covering the Olympics or concussions when covering the NFL.

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  • George Garza jeo 3 years ago

    Interesting video!!! You should try to make videos on Investment…

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  • Francis Santiago 3 years ago

    The Botox is strong with this one.

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  • Pablo Izurieta 3 years ago

    The Olympics are much more interesting, entertaining, and fun than a Mets game. That is for sure.

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  • Steve Davies 3 years ago

    Better question for Costas, “How many swimming pools of hair dye have you consumed so far in life ???

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  • Steve Deasy 3 years ago

    The Olympics are primarily a second rate event. Fluff.

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  • Damion Coombs 3 years ago

    The Olympics can’t be held next summer. There’s an even bigger event, the Football World Cup.

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  • Casemboo 3 years ago

    Bob Costas looking like Joan Rivers. Also, if a firm handshake is now an act of bioterrorism, consider me a terrorist.

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  • Kid Mohair 3 years ago

    shaking hands has always been a “manly” thing… I don’t unless I am forced to
    Olympics?
    I agree… postpone again, but the IOC makes huge quantities of cash, and they haven’t had
    a wad in their pants pockets for a while, so they’re antsy, because the payments are backing up.

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  • Kid Mohair 3 years ago

    shaking hands has always been a “manly” thing… I don’t unless I am forced to, and now I have a perfect excuse…
    Olympics?
    I agree… postpone again;
    but the IOC makes huge quantities of cash from the games,
    so they haven’t had a bulge in their pants pockets for a while, even with the viagra,
    and the servants on the yachts are getting unruly because they haven’t been paid in a while.

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  • AvengingAngel777 3 years ago

    Yes, people SHOULD go back to handshaking, hugging, whatever if they are vaxed. We as a society are ALREADY too alienated from each other. Acknowledging each other as human with human needs can only help us.

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  • FigBat DiggerNick 3 years ago

    LMAO

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  • JanusAtTheGate 3 years ago

    Touching is silly unless in affection. Just bow. Proving you’re not carrying a weapon is moot. Pretty soon we all will be.

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  • khakis69 3 years ago

    Syracuse Alumni!!!

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  • Ozgur Sahin 3 years ago

    I love Bob Costas. I want him to live forever.

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  • Charlie Brown 3 years ago

    CANCEL the Summer Olympics. 70% of Japanese don’t want the Games this year due to the RISE of COVID-19 there.

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  • MR HMD 3 years ago

    The 1st person in cancel culture was an ideal such as cancel Communism or Socialism or Capitalism (depending upon which country you live in)

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  • Johnny Chao 3 years ago

    Bob Costas – when our athletes juice its just random individuals and rogues, when others do it it’s putin/xi injecting it directly into their slave labor athletes, those are just machines who don’t care about winning gold and honor like our roided up athletes, of course Bob, of course.

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  • Noah P 3 years ago

    Wow Bob has had some work

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  • Freeman 3 years ago

    Dude, just let your hair go grey. The brown is cringeworthy…

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  • DP B 3 years ago

    Why is Bob’s hair so fake? When you reach a certain age as a man or a woman you go gray it should show you a wiser, no?

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  • DP B 3 years ago

    Typical American you just don’t have to know everything just the big picture, one of the dumbest sentences ever spoken!

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  • DP B 3 years ago

    So funny American athletes can not win if Americans can not support or can not be there really LOL!

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  • DP B 3 years ago

    See it shows that other countries can work together just not America!

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  • Cathy Rider 3 years ago

    So proud to have Bob as a native St. Louisan

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  • ROWDY ROCKER 3 years ago

    Oh yeah! The pink eye! That was brutal!!

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  • Great Nate 3 years ago

    could you imagine being known for the sympathy u received for freakin’ pink eye

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  • Pablo Cruise 3 years ago

    Well I guess howie Mandel has bes been right all along

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  • Zimster2000 3 years ago

    The Internet was created in the 1960s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (aka “DARPA”) to allow scientists to exchange data sets. It slowly expanded in the 70s and the 80s. It wasn’t until the mid-1990s, when computers got fast enough to render pictures and video in something close to real time, that the World Wide Web was created. Most people had never even heard of The Internet until then.

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  • Alicia Ciolli 3 years ago

    Its oddly similar to watching bill Maher, a waste of time. I love Bob Costas.bill, you are like bland old white bread, preying on the butter.

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  • Gixellia 3 years ago

    I’m not hot about Hob Costa’s made-up facial features … he looks different now …

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  • David Rogers 3 years ago

    Bob has the right idea for the Tokyo summer Olympics. Just postpone it until next summer when Japan has the pandemic more under control.

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  • Ro G 3 years ago

    Botox Bob

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  • Gordon Turner 3 years ago

    IOC is the Peado uncle version of the FIFA.

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  • Marcus Aurelius 3 years ago

    Sorry, adopting Asian gestures isnt going to go in this country.

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  • Michael C 3 years ago

    Full speed ahead, Admiral Yamamoto?

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  • John James 3 years ago

    29 emmys

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  • Stephen Duncan 3 years ago

    @5:30 Bill you act like cancel culture is something new. Ever heard of the red scare? Let it go.

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  • MH 3 years ago

    I’ve always hated how American TV presents the Olympics, spending so much time on stupid backstories at the cost of covering the actual events. Then I lived in NZ and got to see how other countries present the Olympics – 24/7 coverage of ALL the events, with very little commentary. Soooo much better!

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  • Buffalo Bangkok 3 years ago

    Handshaking is gross AF. Fistbumps, baby!

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  • Emmett Jones 3 years ago

    Bill, your immune system is already weak with all the weed smoking you’ve done, be thankful for the vaccine, it surely could have been alot worse.

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  • Jeff Arnold 3 years ago

    Whoa. Rough facelift face. Yikes

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  • Chris Reilly 3 years ago

    Brainwashed

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  • Chris Reilly 3 years ago

    Do u never listen to real doctors?

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  • Dee Ess 3 years ago

    According to Wikipedia, he has won 28 Emmy Awards. I remember after he won 3 it became a running joke on several TV shows about how he was going to top that.

    This guy is so professional, really who can top him???

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  • 1 Jak SingBuri 3 years ago

    WTF happened to Costas’ face? He should just have aged gracefully..

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  • Random Rangoon 3 years ago

    I don’t want anyone to touch me unless they mean business…

    Pretty solid advice

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  • KimPossible 3 years ago

    Jeez Bob! Stop with the plastic surgeries already!!!!

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  • Steven Maginnis 3 years ago

    Boycotts don’t work. Look at Moscow 1980.

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  • Kevin M. 3 years ago

    Maher: You could have been patient zero for getting cancelled.
    Costas: Instead it was you.

    (I think that was the joke setup Bill was offering. 05:28)

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  • Shin-Blade 3 years ago

    When has Bob Costas ever aged after 40-50 years old?! He’s clearly ageless now…

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  • Juniper x 3 years ago

    Bill Maher: ” cmon nobody can take a joke anymore w these “wokes” .. jokes bond you”
    Also Bill Maher:
    Thought dropping the n-bomb in one of his “jokes” was a good idea..

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  • russell zauner 3 years ago

    Bob Costas: China goofed by being hostile to Taiwan and others
    John Cena: *sweatily in Mandarin* OH CHINA SO SORRY I SAID TAIWAN WAS COUNTRY PLEASE FORGIVE I AM SO SORRY SO SORRY SO SORRY PLEASE PLEASE
    Me: *laughing in Cry*

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  • Edge Fan 3 years ago

    I boycotted the Olympics when they were in Russia and I probably will boycott this years if they take place. Japan is not ready and they should be postponed to next summer.

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  • bigfoenation 3 years ago

    I got my vocabulary from Bob Costas.

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  • Bill Smith 3 years ago

    Olympics are no longer of interest to me. The element of being curious is gone. Curious about the athlete, the country they are from, and the sport. The world is flat now and is easy to just wiki the athlete and watch an event in you tube wherever it is in the world. So much less emotion now.

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  • rich ernest 3 years ago

    No Brockmire….rump raiders kneel to this moron cuz he carries a mantle card in his crotch….yada yada Bill not even a rodeo drive stilletto stroller would six inch apart.

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  • Smith Ed 3 years ago

    Hey bill what are they getting done ? Can you please explain what a fucking joke unbelievable

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  • danny witt 3 years ago

    Two Beta Males and and 200 trained seals

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  • Kairyu Rider 3 years ago

    Still no vaccine here in Japan for under 90 years old.
    SOOOOO many anti-vaccine types.

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  • Michael Seidenberg 3 years ago

    Can’t believe at 69 Bob hardly has any Gray and wrinkles just amazing going down like Raquel Welch

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  • Karl Zuercher 3 years ago

    Costas has been for most of his career, very well prepared. Best interview ever was him with Willie Mays, and Henry Aaron. Great stuff!

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  • Tim W 3 years ago

    Yeah you are right about cheating the US athletes do it through their sponsors. Right Nike!!!

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  • Herry Kang 3 years ago

    God! It is a game. Show respect to the host. US is not the moral center of the world. Table turns.

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  • Zoran Horvat 3 years ago

    just let yourself age gracefully Bob!!…you look like a 70 yr old fool!!

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  • Mel D 3 years ago

    Bob is a smart guy.

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  • shay stern 3 years ago

    costa looks hideous. too much hairdye and plastic surgery

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  • ViFabulous 3 years ago

    China isn’t the only country to cheat. Figure skating had to revamp their scoring system thanks to the Russian and French JUDGES colluding. I’m sure these aren’t the only ones. China does bring it to a new level.

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  • Tess Bennett 3 years ago

    “Cancelled” seems to be this year’s “witch hunt”. Enough with the dumb catch phrases.

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  • William Dillard 3 years ago

    I often wonder if I was rich, like these guys, would I be tempted to have some kinda plastic surgery. I don’t think so but I’ll never know.

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  • DC Baumgarten 3 years ago

    I’m sorry but the Olympic coverage in the US is sappy, overly nationalistic, overly commercialized, and overall sucks. Constantly showing melodramatic human interest stories instead of the actual competition. I watch the Canadian public channel.

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  • Aaron St.Pierre 3 years ago

    Bob Costas plastic man now wants us to be more Asian? Lol

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  • Mahjuba Morid 3 years ago

    Bill Maher lies when he claims he is not religious. We should boycott his show. He is corrupt.

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  • stiofan o corra 3 years ago

    i have been a fan of bill maher for years but after hearing his opinion of the palestinians . i was shocked…going by his logic , the indian nation are entitled to have there own land back from the european settlers…..ireland will always support the palestinian struggle against the israeli colonists…..

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  • Thought Virus 3 years ago

    Blah blah can we end the stupid olympics already.

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  • Raul Grajales 3 years ago

    Seems to me BC pay a visit to a plastic surgeon!

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  • Seth Fogle 3 years ago

    Skip

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  • On Taka 3 years ago

    The “Olympic Games” in itself should be abolished and the IOC dismantled. It has been rife with corruption, enriching only large corporations, politicians, and of course the corrupt and grifting IOC. It has also made human rights abusing authoritarian governments and dictators very happy. It has left many past host cities in ruins to near bankruptcy, and even “Extremely Rich” Tokyo will probably be left with deep scars, if lucky. Now it could become a super spreader for COVID worldwide.
    After everything has been settled, let the athletes hold the Olympic games only at the foot of the Olympics, just like in the “Good Old Times” at their OWN COST, without squandering taxpayer money.

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  • On Taka 3 years ago

    One senior IOC official stated that only an “Armageddon” will stop the Tokyo Olympic games.
    In Japan, COVID is currently getting out of control, with mutated COVID variants having infiltrated the country when the vaccination of the populace is still very low. However, Prime Minister Suga and the current government is hellbent on going ahead with the Olympic games as scheduled at the expense and sacrifice of the common people. Although precautionary measures are insufficient, he repeatedly states that the Olympic Games are going to be safe, without any satisfactory basis. He also states that only the IOC has the right to cancel the games and that he had no power in doing so. The government, which has the duty to protect the lives and well-being of its citizens is more concerned about holding the Olympic Games even if it has a high risk of endangering lives, not only in Japan but the whole world.

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  • T Stewart 3 years ago

    Costas and I think alike. Why not do it like they USED too?? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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  • Chris Wade 3 years ago

    2022 same year as World Cup Football (Soccer) which is bigger than the Olympics. They don’t want sports spectator saturation.

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  • 3rdGuy 3 years ago

    Coastas…STOP WITH THE PLASTIC SURGERY. Always enjoy your input, great stuff. But geezus..

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  • Christopher McKinney 3 years ago

    Bill doesn’t want to be touched but he’s always touching his guests on the arm.

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  • - Stiegosaurus - 3 years ago

    “Go the asian route” – Just stop. STOP.

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  • ray comeau 3 years ago

    Blah, blah, blah

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  • Brett B 3 years ago

    International
    Organized
    Crime

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  • William c 3 years ago

    Costas now looks like he’s made out of plastic.

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  • Mario Vercillo 3 years ago

    Best prepared, respectful interview ever, doesn’t matter who he interviewing, sports or not, you feel he is extremely knowledgable about his guest, accomplishments, stories, anecdotes, etc.

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  • GEE GEE 3 years ago

    Bob coastas had surgery on his face and now looks like he’s going for the role of joker in a batman movie smh …he looks horrible !!

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  • Honest Comments 3 years ago

    Indians/Hindus have it correct. Put your own two hands together to say hello. Bowing that Japanese do sounds degrading to me.

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  • John Murie 3 years ago

    The Satanic Cabal are planning to do away with Kamala at the Naval Observatory after she makes the deciding crucial vote for Joe Bidens Infrastructure Tax Bill to become Law and then HE dies a few days later as foretold in the Bible.
    Book of Daniel 11:20.
    Ruler Joe Biden is the EXACTOR/Tax Raiser as written in the book of Daniel 11:20.
    Glory to Holy Clean Jesus Christ my MERCIFUL MASTER Amen

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