'The prospect of another four years of having to do it looms over me like the sword of Damocles,' says Bill Maher. 'I cannot tell you how much anxiety that causes me'
about the evolution of him and the show, as well as how he often angers liberal audiences as much as he does conservatives . He also addressed a recent on-air debate with Rep. Katie Porter , how he doesn’t encounter conservative audiences, whether anything has changed under’s new WarnerMedia/AT&T leadership and whether he fears saying or doing something that gets him canceled — like what happened with ABC in 2002.
It is an evolution. When you think about the fact that I’m 63 and when “Politically Incorrect” went on, I was 37. You’re just a completely different person. Your character hopefully is the same, but I always tell younger people when they’re asking me about the future, “Look, don’t stress it too much because you’re going to be in a completely different circumstance basically every decade of your life.
I think the frustration for me is more the studio audience than the people on the panel. The audience is more part of the problem. I think we have in this country extreme tribalism, meaning, “I’m on the blue team, I don’t even listen to what the red team is saying. Whatever they’re saying is abhorrent to me and I don’t even entertain it.” So when I go someplace that’s even a little outside the completely approved group think of the left there is always pushback.
When I first went on the air, I was always talking about things like, pot should be legal. Especially when we got on ABC, they went ape shit over that. “You can’t say that.” Religion, again, something that I think a lot of the country has come around on. All you can do is put these ideas out there and slowly, over time, I think people come around, and I think we’re seeing that.
There’s so many things about Trump, and yet we’ve exhausted all of them. Most politicians have one thing. Bush was stupid, and Clinton was horny and Chris Christie’s fat. Trump has everything. He’s fat, and he has a mushroom penis, he has terrible hair, he’s a racist, he’s corrupt, he’s stupid, and he’s horny. He’s everything. And yet, I still feel like we’ve exhausted it because we were making jokes about him before he was president. I looked back, we put it in our anniversary show.
It’s also lazy. I think people see that. You’re not really doing anything when you get on Twitter and say, “Oh, this person was fat shaming, or this person said this 20 years ago, and it’s not acceptable anymore.” You know what? You want to do something? Go down to Georgia and join Jimmy Carter’s Habitat for Humanity and build somebody a house.
You have new bosses with WarnerMedia, AT&T. Has anything changed? Are they keeping a little more tabs on you? What’s going on with your new corporate bosses?
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