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Despite speculating late last year that he “might resign” before another Trump administration, the “Real Time” host Bill Maher He told CNN that he will not be leaving his show.
Maher told CNN host Jake Tapper on Friday that although he will likely retire from stand-up comedy tours, he will not be leaving his popular Friday night show. In any case, he will have to be expelled.
“I don’t know where this thing that I’m getting rid of ‘Real Time’ started. I… they’re going to have to get me off that show,” he said.
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“Real Time” host Bill Maher tells CNN he won’t be leaving his HBO show because President-elect Trump will get a second term in the White House. (Screenshot/CNN)
Maher supposedly wins 10 million dollars a year for his HBO show that he has hosted since 2003.
During an episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast last December, the comic and outspoken Trump critic told guest Jane Fonda that “can you stop smoking” because he doesn’t want to make material about another term with President-elect Trump in the White House.
“I can quit because I don’t want to do another one. I did Trump. I did all the Trump stuff before anyone else. I called him a crook before anyone else. I did it. He’s a mob boss. I was the one who said I wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.”
During Friday night’s episode of CNN’s “The Lead,” Tapper asked Maher about the quote, assuming he was referring to leaving his show. The host said, “But you’ve talked about maybe leaving the HBO show…”
“No,” the HBO host interjected. Tapper continued, adding, “Well, you said something to Jane Fonda about thinking about that. Where are you in your career? You still have a lot of good attitudes, a lot of good jokes in you, right?” ? Like what, tell us what, what’s next?”
Maher admitted that he plans to quit stand-up because he is tired of touring and has too many other things to do.
“It’s okay. I’m going to stop doing stand-up, just because I’m tired of touring, just because I’ve been doing it for 40 years. I love it,” he said.
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Bill Maher on the set of his podcast, “Club Random.” (Screenshot/Random Club Media)
After comparing stand-up training to training to be a boxer, he said: “I’ve been training for 40 years. I need a break. And I’m tired of traveling. I’m tired of dragging my — getting out of bed on Saturday night.” the morning to go somewhere after having worked so hard in ‘Real time’ all week.”
He then clarified what he told Fonda during her show: that he simply doesn’t want to cover Trump again.
“What I was saying is that I didn’t want to do another Trump term. Not just because I don’t think it’s going to be a good time for America. Maybe, again, I’m not going to hate anything, but because I’ve already done all of them.” jokes about Donald Trump.
Maher added: “I don’t know what else to say about this guy. But of course he’s going to give us a lot of new material. And I’ll get into that, but I was hoping that in the episodic TV show That’s America, I was hoping for some new characters.”
