I’m a fan of Bill Maher and I like his standup, but his sense of his own superiority over his audience is really annoying. Especially that he will wait for a laugh he expects and if he doesn’t get it or it isn’t big enough, he will berate his audience for not being smart or hip enough to get it.
Other examples?
I adore Jimmy Fallon but I kind of wish he didn’t fawn all over his guests quite so much. I’m not necessarily doubting his sincerity but he’s been in the biz for long enough and met just about everyone so I don’t get his star struckedness.
This might be a bit broader than you’re looking for but Adele, when she’s good she really knocks it out of the park but her slow whiny numbers make me actively angry. I just heard her latest and it is upbeat and pretty groovy and the very first thing I thought is "oh good, now maybe I won’t have to hear that When We Were Young shite again.
Maher is spot on about everything (politics, religion, etc.) except for his anti-vaccination views.
There are a few acts I enjoy that seem to like to bash certain political beliefs. Hey, just shut the fuck up and play yer guitar.
It really pisses me off when they are fucking Canadians!
On that note, I’ll say Alanis Morissette. I liked her music until I started to understand her lyrics. Then it was hard to enjoy it anymore.
I really like Texas swing, and I acknowledge that Bob Wills is (still) the king. His music is great. I would love to be able to listen to it. But I can’t… because I can’t take his gol-durned hollering.
I’m a huge Bob Dylan fan, but I acknowledge that he sucks live. He’s better in smaller venues, but I will never shell out the cash to see him play a huge arena or outdoor festival again.
I love Greg Proops’ podcast/stand-up (Smartest Man in the World), and his views, and find him hilarious when he imitates musicians and actors, but I hate when he talks about baseball.
I love listening to husky-voiced Ana Carolina, one of Brazil’s most popular singers. But I wish she wouldn’t put that one falsetto note into just about every song.
I lovelovelove The Dear Hunter, but on some songs Casey’s excellent voice sounds too whiny and nasally.
I just accept that part of Dylan. I’ve seen him many times and it kind of adds to the mystique when, in the middle of a song, he sneaks a peek at his watch and sees that he has met his contract, immediately stopping and telling the audience “thank you and goodnight”.
Seinfeld is a brilliant comedian. Probably a genuinely nice guy as well. But I find him a little self-congratulatory at times in Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
Iliza Schlesinger is a really funny comedienne, but at time she overplays heir own personal in-jokes. Like that sheep-bleating thing… less is more. And she never introduced it. Airheaded women can be sheepy sometimes? IDK. It was a funny noise the first few times, but beyond that we need to know what you’re trying to accomplish.
I really like Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Correction: I love Emerson and Palmer, while so many of Greg Lake’s lyrics are just teenage-poetry-level cringe-inducing.
There’s a reason my favorite pieces of theirs are all instrumentals. I enjoy plenty of their works with lyrics, but there are none that I enjoy because of the lyrics.
Well, a LOT of ELP’s lyrics were written by Pete Sinfield. And when Lake writes lyrics, I think he is often trying to sound like Sinfield… for better AND for worse.
My all-time favorite band is Rush. I’ve loved just about everything they’ve done. But there was a stretch of albums, mostly in the 1980s, where they just didn’t seem to know when to end a song. I’m not talking about their long, “epic” songs, I’m talking about the 4- to 5-minute songs that could have easily been 30 seconds shorter, had they decided to not keep going and going after the end of the last chorus, repeating the main riff/chord progression with minor variations while Geddy repeats the same lyric fragment over and over.
They mostly got out of that bad habit by the 1990s, though it did pop up again in 2002 on the final track of “Vapor Trails”, the song Out of the Cradle. In that case, it felt almost tongue-in-cheek. The overlong outro includes Geddy repeating the phrase “endlessly rocking …”
Reminds me of the Beatles’ song, Blue Jay Way, in which George Harrison repeats the line, “don’t be long” 42 times 
The other day, I commented to my wife that Passenger was good at writing 60% of a song. Then they just repeat the final chorus or line about thirty times.
I like 'em, but nearly every song I feel like I can hit the “next song” button at about the 2:30 mark and not miss anything.
Indeed that was unfortunate, and it’s unkind of you to mention it.
Yes! I got to like his stuff listening to a Tulsa radio show which played him sparingly, but when I bought a CD of his greatest hits, i couldn’t listen to it because of his constant yipping and hollering. It would be great if one could his stuff with that hollering edited out.
That reminds me, I enjoy traditional bluegrass music, but only when they don’t sing.