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Bill Maher Says He “May Quit” ‘Real Time’ Because He’s Sick Of Covering Donald Trump: “I’m Bored With It”
Bill Maher isn’t leaving any time soon.
After Maher made headlines for claiming he “may quit” Real Time with Bill Maher because he’s sick of covering Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Maher on The Lead on Friday (Jan. 10) if he is in fact quitting his HBO late night series.
“I have a podcast, I have a television show. I’m not retiring. I don’t know where this started about I’m getting rid of Real Time,” Maher said, per Fox. “They’re going to have to drag me off of that show.”
Maher had told Jane Fonda on the Dec. 1 episode of his Club Random podcast that he’s covered so much of Trump already, even claiming he was one of the first to do so.
“I don’t want to do another — I did Trump,” he said at the time. “I did all the Trump stuff before anybody. I called him a con man before anybody, I did ‘He’s a mafia boss,’ I was the one who said he wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.”
Maher reiterated this to Tapper on Friday.
“What I was saying was, I didn’t want to do another Trump term,” he elaborated. “Not just because I don’t think it’s going to be possibly a great time for America. Maybe. Again, not going to pre-hate anything. But because I’ve already done all the jokes about Donald Trump. I don’t know what else to say about the guy. But of course he will provide us with a lot of new material.”
Maher teased that “in the episodic television show that is America, [he] was hoping for some new characters.”
As for stand-up, Maher — who recently released his thirteenth HBO special, Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? — said that he is “stopping doing stand-up.” Despite his love for it, he is “tired of touring.” He had previously told fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld on his Club Random podcast in May that he was going to stop “after this year,” but conceded that he “could go back.”
Real Time with Bill Maher Season 23 premieres Jan. 17.
