Bill Maher said Jimmy Kimmel is “very angry at me” in a recent “Club Random” podcast interview with Adam Carolla (via Mediaite). Carola and Kimmel worked together as co-hosts of Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” from 1999 to 2004.
“Jimmy Kimmel, he’s very angry at me. I know you’re close to him,” Maher told Carolla. “I want you to tell him I’m sorry for being out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong. We can have disagreements. I mean, you and I don’t agree on everything. Look at this conflict, and yet we’re cool.”
“There’s always been this left-right divide in the Republican Party, and that bothers me a lot,” Maher continued, noting that Democrats suffer much more from criticism than Republicans. “My tribe is supposed to be on the left, but these are the people you don’t talk to unless you’re right there. Republicans, on the other hand, come on my show all the time. Last week, John Kennedy from Louisiana was on and he was getting punched like a man, like everyone else does, and we met lovingly and smiling and happily, but sometimes we disagree.”
Maher said that while Kimmel is “one of the nicest people,” he doesn’t intend to go the traditional late-night route when it comes to political humor. Maher will always target both political parties, “and if that’s not enough for you, I guess you’re an asshole,” the “Real Time” host added.
“I will never stop not only agreeing with the left-wing nonsense, but making fun of the right-wing nonsense!” Maher said. “And if that’s not enough for you, I think you suck, and I don’t think Jimmy sucks…I think he’s a great guy, and it bothers me that because of recent events, we may never speak again.”
Although Mr. Marr did not directly say why Mr. Kimmel is angry with him, it appears to be related to an episode of “Real Time” last November, in which Mr. Marr criticized Mr. Kimmel’s wife, Molly McEnerney, and revealed that he had cut ties with President Trump’s loved family.
McNerney joined Kimmel in an interview on the podcast “We Can Do Hard Things” at the time, where she opened up about her “difficult” relationship with Trump’s family members who support Trump amid the ongoing feud between the president and Kimmel. She said she had “sympathy” for relatives who are “deliberately misinformed every day” but was “very heartbroken because of the personal relationship my husband is currently fighting with this man.”
“For me, for them to vote for Trump is the same as not voting for my husband and me and our family,” she added, noting that “unfortunately” she has “lost relationships with people in my family because of Trump.”
Reacting to McNerney’s revelations on “Real Time,” she said, “She says she lost touch with her relatives because she wrote 10 reasons why people shouldn’t vote for Trump in an email before the election, but some still didn’t follow through. It’s an ultimatum. 10 reasons? 10 for me. I can think of about 0. But I’m not going to give it to anyone as an ultimatum. An ultimatum doesn’t make people rethink their politics. An ultimatum makes them reconsider. ”
The host later said on a December episode of his “Club Random” podcast that Kimmel was upset about the criticism, adding, “I was as big of a brat as I could be, and I could tell they were mad at me. Oh, I’m sorry. I mean, again, I tried to be as respectful as possible, but I don’t agree with that perspective. And it’s not like I’m out of school to put that out there because she put it out there. I love it.”I always think that, I don’t know him very well, but he’s a great guy…I hope we can be friends forever, but you never know, liberals and woke people, it’s just division. ”
Watch the latest episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast in the video below.
