Bill Maher Isn't Happy 'SNL' Called His MAGA Friends Racist

[SocialDemocrat61]

Bill Maher Isn't Happy 'SNL' Called His MAGA Friends Racist
By Andrew Sanford | News | May 19, 2025

I think you could get away with assuming folks aren’t explicitly racist because they voted for Trump in 2016. It’s wrong, but the whole thing felt so unprecedented that it was easier to assume folks just wanted a stronger economy or some such nonsense. At the end of the day, those who supported him supported a man who proudly said Mexicans are rapists and told Black people they had nothing to lose because more than half of their youth were unemployed. That’s what the man came out of the gate with! Now, years later, he’s softened his stance. Oh, wait, no the f*** he hasn’t!

Trump has gotten more racist, the way Kirby can absorb creatures and gain their powers. However, in this iteration, Kirby never gives up any of the powers he’s absorbed. He just gets bigger and wider and, in this case, more racist. This monstrously orange version of Kirby also has minions to whom he can spread his racism to carry out orders on his behalf, like removing people of color from their positions because they consider them “DEI hires” and scrubbing them from historical records for the same (racist) reasons. But please, don’t tell MAGA Puppet Bill Maher any of this!

The comedian(?) has his nose shoved fairly up the MAGA a**hole after being invited to dinner at the White House by Kid Rock (the highest of honors). Maher fancied himself a contrarian long before that, which is easy to do once money and power have made you completely removed from reality. However, Billy Boy doesn’t see it that way. In his eyes, which are often covered by douchey sunglasses often reserved for divorced dads scoping a Mohegan Sun for some strange, the liberal party left him because it… doesn’t like people who claim Mexicans are rapists and all Black people are DEI hires.

But like I said, Maher was a comedian at some point (I think?), so he knows funny! And boy, oh, boy, did he not find a sketch from the SNL 50th Anniversary Show very funny! Here’s the snag: I didn’t love the sketch either. It started great, as another iteration of Black Jeopardy, complete with Eddie Murphy playing Tracy Morgan while standing next to Tracy Morgan. It goes south when the show replaces Morgan with a MAGA-hat-clad Tom Hanks in a revival of an older version of the sketch. The callback felt forced and didn’t live up to the original. But in Maher’s eyes, it was simply a lie.

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[David__77]

1. He's a good example of right-wing liberalism.

[JohnSJ]

2. who cares what bill maher thinks? (just my personal opinon), I don't.

[Prairie Gates]

3. Fuck Bill Maher

[walkingman]

4. Bill Maher is desperately trying to stay relevant. His "used by date"

has expired and although he still is somewhat effective, the longer he hangs around less so every day.

Unlike Bernie, whose core principles haven't wavered, he thought he could alienate his base and still survive.....it doesn't work.....Bye, Bye!

[NewHendoLib]

5. He's a soulless reed that blows in the breeze of profit.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Yes, kind of like Tapper

There seems to be a lot of that going around.

[FirstLight]

6. Maher is a smarmy prick

...and the fact that he still CALLS HIMSELF a liberal is hilarious. He's just mad cuz he's still irrelevant, even with his little Trump dinner...

[Blue Owl]

7. When you dine with tRump, you dine with Hitler

[Initech]

8. Did they vote for Trump in 2024? Yes? They are racist.

End of debate.

[appmanga]

9. Does Bill Maher still matter to anyone...

...on the left?

He's a closet libertarian and a slightly under-the-surface aggrieved old white guy. He's spent most of the last few years railing against "woke", and while he's fairly pointed out the excesses, he's ultimately decided the biggest issue is the left shouldn't offend those who countenance bigotry, racism, misogyny, and bias, things by definition you have to accept if you support Trump. He thinks "non-racists" who support a racist simply should somehow be recognized as good people by the people who are being hurt, or those who oppose that. Maher remains a political dilettante who thinks he's a truth-teller when he's nothing more than a panderer and a jerk.

[misanthrope]

10. Bil Maher shows how dense he really is

The joke wasn't that Tom Hanks' character, Doug, didn't want to touch a Black person. It was that he reflexively assumed he was being robbed as a Black man approached him.

It was also a direct rehash from Doug's first Black Jeopardy appearance in 2016. The author was correct in that it was a lazy turn for the sketch and the sight gag -- my understanding is that Hanks improvised the reaction the first time around -- didn't stick the landing on re-use because it was no surprise.

Also, if Maher had familiarity with the original Doug appearance he would have known its underlying theme: most of those who are middle class and below have far more in common than we assume and being fractured along ethnic lines only keeps us from realizing our true power. If Maher's point in all his posturing and pontificating is truly what he claims, he would like that.

[Paladin]

11. I was over and done with that piece of shit Maher...

...long before he showed up at trump's White House, kneepads in hand.

[Mysterian]

12. From now on, I'm placing on ignore anyone who posts anything about

Bill fucking Maher. Bye.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. Bye

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Who cares what Maher thinks on any issue?

Maher ceased to be funny a very long time ago.

[NewHendoLib]

16. Any friend of Ann Coulter is not a friend of Democrats