Bill Maher Gets In His Last Licks Before His Summer Hiatus
deadline.comThis was the last Real Time before its summer hiatus, Bill Maher noted at the top of his show on Friday night. “It’s a slow news time,” he quipped. “We’ll be back on Aug.
23 to cover the campaign between Trump and….somebody.” This was the first show since last week’s Trump assassination attempt, and Maher reiterated his previously expressed sentiments that it wasn’t a subject to joke about. “You should be as angry about that (shooting) as (against) the candidate you like,” he said about the few who made rude comments about the assassination attempt. “Liberals don’t shoot each other and they don’t revel in it.
I’m glad you’re okay – because then I couldn’t make jokes about him.” He did note that Trump is being attacked by people who take their names from elements of the Trump persona, namely Bragg and Crooks.
As for all the RNC supporters wearing ear patches, Biden supporters, he noted, can get in that game by “wearing pants with a pee strain.” Trump’s long-winded speech at the Republican Convention went on so long, Maher said, “By the end of it, my ears were bleeding.” Finally, he turned to Joe Biden’s getting Covid this week. “Even viruses want him to step down,” Maher said, listing the symptoms as headache, sore throat, and “an inability to read the writing on the wall.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the one-on-one guest, but claimed he was on the show as a private citizen, one who believes in Joe Biden.
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