Marc Maron Perfectly Articulates Why Bill Maher Is So Awful

Marc Maron likely isn’t going to have comedy nemesis Jon Stewart on his podcast before it ends this fall — and he’s definitely not going to be sitting down with Bill Maher anytime soon, given his most recent comments about the Real Time host.

Maron just guested on Pod Save America, the podcast that should probably change its name after eight years of saving precisely squat. While he was there to promote his new HBO special, and discuss the imminent end of WTF, Maron also commented on the state of modern comedy, including how Jerry Seinfeld went from a guy who “didn’t speak much publicly” to a guy who was “never shutting up.”

Maron was also asked about Bill Maher, and he didn’t exactly hold back when giving his response. The former Glow star acknowledged that he used to appear on Maher’s shows in the past, including both Politically Incorrect and Real Time. For example, he once sided with Maher on the subject of the touchiness of liberal comedy audiences in 2011.

Fourteen years later, Maron has seemingly evolved, as evidenced by his recent criticisms of the anti-woke comedian mindset. Maher, on the other hand, clearly hasn’t. Maron perfectly encapsulated the problem with Maher, apart from the fact that he “always had a problem with his tone.” “I feel with Bill that there is this — and it happens with some of the other Boomers — there’s this desperate chasing of relevance that changes someone’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do,” Maron explained. “And it also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate.”

“Outside of his ideas about, primarily, I think, wokeness, it’s just not for me,” Maron added, noting that “he’s got good joke writers who know how to write for his tone. And I’ve known a couple of those guys, they were comics and they’re good guys. But I can’t see past the desperation and what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation.”

As Variety pointed out, back in May, Maron similarly dunked on Maher during an interview with W. Kamau Bell, remarking to the United Shades of America host, “Are you going to be like Bill Maher, you know, ‘I’m going to agree with some of the things that Trump is doing.’ It’s like, dude, you’re a bitch.”

Amazingly, Maron managed to call out Maher’s cultural desperation without once mentioning the YouTube show in which he constantly (and distractingly) drinks booze and smokes weed with celebrities in a neon-lit mancave like a 13-year-old who’s just been Zoltar-ed into the body of an adult.