<p>Comedian Bill Maher unloaded on the &#8220;scolds&#8221; he blamed for taking all the fun out of Halloween, arguing that people needed a holiday where they were allowed — and even expected — to be a little irreverent and throw the &#8220;rules&#8221; out the window.</p>
<p>Maher proceeded to go through a list of &#8220;problematic&#8221; Halloween costumes compiled by BuzzFeed, which he renamed &#8220;BuzzKill,&#8221; and explained that &#8220;problematic&#8221; had always been the entire point of the night of freedom that came before All Saints&#8217; Day — which he said had been overtaken in recent years by &#8220;All Scolds Day.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can’t do on Halloween. And by the way, please put drugs in my candy. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AllScoldsDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AllScoldsDay</a>🎃 <a href="https://t.co/if9O8HQZTU">pic.twitter.com/if9O8HQZTU</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1586221459491368960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;New rule!&#8221; Maher began. &#8220;If Halloween is too much for your fragile sensibilities and you&#8217;re worried about seeing someone wearing something that&#8217;s on the forbidden costume list &#8230; just stay the f*** home.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maher went on to mock the idea that there were lists of irreverent costumes that people were warned not to wear &#8230; &#8220;lest a night of irreverent dress-up spiral into something that resembles fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Halloween is supposed to be outrageous! It&#8217;s a festival of the sacrilegious, a celebration of the grotesque,&#8221; Maher continued, adding, &#8220;Yet every year there&#8217;s a new list of offensive things we shouldn&#8217;t do on the day that&#8217;s all about being offensive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rather than canceling the fun out of Halloween, Maher said he&#8217;d prefer to cancel November 1st: &#8220;All Scolds&#8217; Day&#8221; — which he said was &#8220;when the good people announce which costumes the bad people wore.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reading from &#8220;BuzzKill&#8217;s&#8221; list, Maher began with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer — &#8220;e-Bay has already banned selling it because otherwise it would be impossible to find a blond wig and aviator glasses.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I’m so tired of a handful of emotional hemophiliacs on social media telling us what we can’t do on Halloween. And by the way, please put drugs in my candy,&#8221; Maher added.</p>
<p>He went on to read a number of other &#8220;verboten&#8221; costumes from the list: Queen Elizabeth II (&#8220;too soon&#8221;), &#8220;characters outside of your race,&#8221; even Elvis. &#8220;You can&#8217;t dress up as Elvis?&#8221; Maher asked. &#8220;That&#8217;s an entire industry!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Have fun kids, and let your imaginations soar,&#8221; he mocked, adding, &#8220;Can I tell you something, kids? These are *all* great costumes. Listen to me, I&#8217;m your last connection to fun.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;For f***&#8217;s sake, it&#8217;s Halloween — which is not just a fun holiday, it&#8217;s a necessary psychic release,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Maher concluded the segment by revealing his own costume — a Generation Z scold, complete with multiple masks and face shield, the leash for his emotional support animal, a &#8220;F*** the Patriarchy&#8221; t-shirt, and the stick he said was meant to &#8220;go up his ass.&#8221;</p>

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