Bill Maher says in his new comedy particular, Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?, that Donald Trump acquired the White House once more however received’t get Maher’s thoughts. And the comic elaborated on that time on CNN on Friday, January 10, saying that his present Real Time With Bill Maher will cowl Trump’s second presidency in another way than it did Trump’s first.
“I’m not going to chase every rabbit down the hole like I did the first term. That’s what I mean [by] he’s not going to get my mind,” Maher instructed Jake Tapper throughout Friday’s episode of The Lead. “He’s a kooky guy who says a lot of kooky things, and I’m just not going to pre-hate anything.”
Instead, Maher added, he’s going to “hope for the best” and save his commentary on the HBO present for something severe that occurs. “Otherwise, I have new rules and [the] monologue as a place in the show every week to talk about invading Greenland and annexing Canada and other stuff that’s perfect for comedy, but I’m not going to take it seriously,” he stated.
Maher additionally defined why he didn’t need to cowl one other Trump presidency within the first place. “I didn’t want to do another Trump term, not just because I don’t think it’s going to be, possibly, a great time for America, maybe — again, not gonna pre-hate anything — but because I’ve already done all the jokes about Donald Trump,” he stated. “I don’t know what else to say about the guy. But, of course, he’ll provide us with a lot of new material, and I’ll get into it.”
He quipped: “I was hoping that in the episodic television show that is America, I was hoping for some new characters. It’s like they rebooted Matlock, but instead of getting Kathy Bates, they put Andy Griffith back in there.”
Real Time returns with its twenty third season on Friday, January 17, however Maher shall be again on HBO with Is Anyone Else Seeing This? per week earlier in the identical time slot.
“With his signature sardonic wit and unfiltered approach to discussing controversial issues, the comedian offers up his scathing commentary on the hypocrisies of both conservative and liberal politics, as well as trends in modern parenting, sex and dating, and religion,” HBO says in a synopsis of what stands as Maher’s thirteenth comedy particular on the premium cable channel.
Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?, Friday, January 10, 10/9c, HBO
Real Time With Bill Maher, Season 23 Premiere, Friday, January 17, 10/9c, HBO