{"id":335957,"date":"2026-03-18T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:12:08","slug":"bill-maher-mocks-jerry-oconnell-for-attending-kamala-harris-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335957\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Mocks Jerry O\u2019Connell for Attending Kamala Harris Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0983909\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Time<\/a> star <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005175\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Maher<\/a> mocked his podcast guest <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005278\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry O\u2019Connell<\/a> on Monday (March 17) after the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16375958\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pictionary<\/a> host admitted he attended a <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3668431\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kamala Harris<\/a> rally in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. The moment came in the latest episode of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9320766\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maher<\/a>\u2019s Club Random podcast, as the pair discussed celebrities getting involved in politics. \u201cDemocrats really need to cut loose the celebrities. They\u2019re not helping,\u201d said celebrity Maher, per <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0852890\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Digital<\/a>. \u201cThey don\u2019t strike people as normal [because] they\u2019re f****** not. Democrats already have a problem with people thinking that they are not the common-sense crowd.\u201d Maher slammed the likes of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8483808\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billie Eilish<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8958015\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chappell Roan<\/a> for making political statements,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Time star Bill Maher mocked his podcast guest Jerry O\u2019Connell on Monday (March 17) after the Pictionary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[16057,9722,16055,16058,156,16056,4223,111,139,16052,69,16053,417,437],"class_list":["post-335957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-actores","tag-actrices","tag-celebridades","tag-directores","tag-entertainment","tag-estrellas","tag-hollywood","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noticias","tag-nz","tag-peliculas","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}