Marc Maron is calling out fellow comedian Bill Maher for agreeing with “some of the things” that President Donald Trump has done during his time in the White House.
On a recent episode of the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast — which also featured former CNN host W. Kamau Bell — the host criticized comedians who talk about controversial political news but then “get into a certain mania with that stuff to where you’re not even humanizing it.”
Maron added, “All these people that are still sort of speaking about this as if it’s a presidency. It’s like when are you guys going to wake the fuck up?”
The host proceeded to namedrop Bill Maher, who hosts his own political talk show, HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, for his perspective on Trump and some of the president’s controversial policies.
“Are you going to be like Bill Maher, where it’s like, ‘I’m going to agree with some of the things that Trump is doing,’” Maron said. “It’s like, dude, you’re a bitch.”
He then made fun of Maher for attempting to connect with Trump supporters, such as Kid Rock (who was a recent guest on Real Time). “‘You know, Kid Rock. I like Kid Rock,” Maron said in his best Maher voice, before adding. “It’s like, do you? And now you’re gonna blow him with a slightly disdainful look on your face? And that’s who you are?”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Maher’s rep for comment. The comedian has been outspoken about his moderately democratic views for years, describing himself as “an old-school liberal.”
Maron has previously been critical of “comedians with podcasts” having “shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show to joke around like they are just entertainers or even just politicians.” He shared a blog post in October, shortly after Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast before the 2024 election.
“Even though I do not do a political show I have been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe, and have believed for years, what is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources,” he wrote in the post. “Well, it’s fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us. It is shameless and proud. Culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti-woke movement has delivered their message for the future. A future that marginalizes almost all voices.
Maron continued at the time, “The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter. Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt racists doesn’t matter. They are part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea.”
