Marc Maron may suffer from crippling anxiety, but he doesn’t suffer fools. Maron went off on Bill Maher on Pod Save America, calling him “desperate” in an episode released August 24. “I can’t do it,” he said, when Jon Lovett asked him about Maher. “I always had a problem with his tone.” He elaborated that with Maher, “and it happens with some of the other boomers, there’s this desperate chasing of relevance that changes someone’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate.”
Maron did caveat that he’d been on Maher’s shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time before (he was on Real Time thrice between 2011 and 2015). Then he offered the Kendrick Lamar–esque kill shot: “He’s got good joke writers who know how to write for his tone, but I can’t see past the desperation and what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation.” Next, Maron claims Maher disappoints his entire family.
Earlier this year, the WTF host criticized Maher for telling people that he agreed with “some of the things” that Trump was doing. “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 a March episode of WTF with W. Kamau Bell. “It’s like, dude, you’re a bitch.” That may be Politically Incorrect, but it’s funny.
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