{"id":91796,"date":"2025-08-25T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91796\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:31:08","slug":"marc-maron-tears-into-desperate-bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91796\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Maron Tears Into \u2018Desperate\u2019 Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Maron is making his true feelings about fellow comedian and podcaster Bill Maher crystal clear, calling him \u201cdesperate\u201d for relevance. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t do it,\u201d he said on an episode of Pod Save America, released on Sunday. \u201cI always had a problem with his tone.\u201d <\/p>\n

Maron, 62, a podcasting trailblazer who hosts the influential show WTF with Marc Maron, has appeared on Maher\u2019s shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time. But somewhere down the line his feelings about the 69-year-old changed. \u201cLike I feel with Bill\u2026 that there is this, and it happens with some of the other boomers, there\u2019s this desperate chasing of relevance that changes someone\u2019s mind in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of his ideas about, primarily I think wokeness, I don\u2019t know\u2026 it\u2019s just not for me.\u201d <\/p>\n

He added that Maher has good \u201cjoke writers, who know how to write for his tone,\u201d but sees no other redeeming features about his fellow comic. \u201cI can\u2019t see past the desperation and what he\u2019s willing to do to stay in the conversation,\u201d Maron explained. <\/p>\n

\"MaronMaron appeared on \u201cReal Time With Bill Maher\u201d in 2011. HBO <\/p>\n

It comes after Maron labeled Maher \u201ca b—h\u201d in March for agreeing with President Trump. The shot came during an episode of his WTF show alongside comedian and former CNN host W. Kamau Bell. <\/p>\n

\u201cAre you going to be like Bill Maher, you know, \u2018I\u2019m going to agree with some of the things that Trump is doing,\u2019\u201d Maron said. \u201cIt\u2019s like, dude, you\u2019re a b—h.\u201d<\/p>\n

The host continued to make fun of Maher for finding points of connection with members of the MAGA coalition. The missive came after Maher expressed a \u201cwait and see\u201d attitude<\/a> about Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n

Maher, however, has been sounding the alarm<\/a> about a \u201cslow-moving coup\u201d from the Trump administration. On Real Time on Friday, Maher said the militarization of U.S. cities could be how Trump puts the systems in place to maintain control of the presidential election process.<\/p>\n

\"BillBill Maher at the Emmy Awards with Donald Trump, in 2004. Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is creating an army in the nation\u2019s capital. I just think the presence now of this army in Washington is going to have its toll taken when the next election comes around,\u201d he explained, referring to Trump sending the National Guard into D.C.<\/p>\n

Maron previously spoke to the Daily Beast on the topic of once radical comedians sliding to the right with age. He brought up Maher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys just have to die sooner. We\u2019re seeing it with Bill Maher now,\u201d he said in the October 2024 chat<\/a>. He continued, \u201cAgain, I\u2019m going to be fielding calls and probably some tweets that are not going to\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MarcMaron has been critical of fellow comedians who bend the knee to Trump. Gilbert Flores\/Variety via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Prior to the 2024 election, Maron drew widespread attention in the comedy world for a newsletter piece in which he accused conservative comedians of \u201cnormalizing fascism\u201d by hosting Trump on their podcasts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cWhether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to own that,\u201d he added in the March chat with W. Kamau Bell. \u201cEither you know you are and you\u2019re 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\u2019s like, well this is fundamentally anti-democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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