Bill Maher Angrily Lashes Disney Chiefs for 'Caving' on Kimmel [View all]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Sep. 20 2025 12:38PM EDT
Published Sep. 20 2025 2:30AM EDT


Bill Maher came out swinging against the “hypocritical” cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher—while also saying his fellow late-night host was wrong for what he said about Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel’s show was put on indefinite hiatus on Wednesday after the host made comments about the reaction to the assassination of the right-wing activist.

“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on his Monday show. Kimmel also described Trump’s response to Kirk’s death—in which the president pivoted immediately to pointing out the start of construction on his new White House ballroom—as “how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

“I don’t think what he said was exactly right. I don’t,” said Maher. “We don’t agree on that,” Maher said during his opening monologue, adding, “He shouldn’t lose his job for it.” Maher appeared to take issue with Kimmel’s pushback against right-wing rhetoric, suggesting that Kirk’s suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, was a Democrat.

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