Marc Maron is making his unfiltered feelings about fellow comedian and podcaster Bill Maher known. And Maron’s not impressed by how Maher has comported himself at the start of the second Donald Trump administration.
“Are you going to be like Bill Maher, you know, ‘I’m going to agree with some of the things that Trump is doing,’” Maron said on his WTF podcast this week during a political conversation with his guest, comedian and former CNN host W. Kamau Bell. “It’s like, dude, you’re a b---h.”
The host continued to make fun of Maher for finding points of connection with members of the MAGA coalition, imitating him as he added, “‘I like Kid Rock.’ And now you’re gonna blow him with a slightly disdainful look on your face? That’s who you are?”
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Maher, who insists that he remains a liberal and that the Democrats are the ones who have changed, has expressed a “wait and see” attitude about Trump 2.0, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this year that he’s not going to “pre-hate” anything.
When the Trump-loving Kid Rock was a guest on his HBO show Real Time last month, Maher gushed, “I’m a big fan of your music, not the early rap s--t, but once you became a singer,” while also lightly criticizing him for holding “Trump rallies” instead of concerts.
Prior to the 2024 election, Maron drew widespread attention in the comedy world for a newsletter piece in which he accused conservative comedians of “normalizing fascism” by hosting Trump on their podcasts. “The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers,” he wrote at the time. “Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant.”
Speaking now to those comedians, including Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and others, Maron said, “You’ve got to own that. Either you know you are and you’re in it for the grift. Or you just believe that s--t, which is fine, but even believing that s--t at this point, it’s like, well this is fundamentally anti-democratic.”
As for the MAGA comedians who showed up at Trump’s inauguration, Maron added, “Dude, you’ve just been bought. And I don’t think you even sold yourself for that much.”
One comedian who hosted Trump on his podcast in the run-up to the election but ended up declining an invitation to the inauguration is Andrew Schulz, who reveals his decision not to publicly bow down to the president in an upcoming episode of The Last Laugh podcast.
“They were very kind to invite me,” Schulz says in the interview, dropping next Wednesday, March 19. “But I’m a comedian. My feeling is, now you guys are in power, you guys are going to get these jokes.”
