Invoice Maher says in his new comedy particular, Invoice Maher: Is Anybody Else Seeing This?, that Donald Trump received the White Home once more however received’t get Maher’s thoughts. And the comic elaborated on that time on CNN on Friday, January 10, saying that his present Actual Time With Invoice Maher will cowl Trump’s second presidency in a different way than it did Trump’s first.
“I’m not going to chase each rabbit down the opening like I did the primary time period. That’s what I imply [by] he’s not going to get my thoughts,” Maher advised Jake Tapper throughout Friday’s episode of The Lead. “He’s a kooky man who says quite a lot of kooky issues, and I’m simply not going to pre-hate something.”
As a substitute, Maher added, he’s going to “hope for one of the best” and save his commentary on the HBO present for something critical that occurs. “In any other case, I’ve new guidelines and [the] monologue as a spot within the present each week to speak about invading Greenland and annexing Canada and different stuff that’s excellent for comedy, however I’m not going to take it significantly,” he stated.
Maher additionally defined why he didn’t wish to cowl one other Trump presidency within the first place. “I didn’t wish to do one other Trump time period, not simply because I don’t assume it’s going to be, probably, a good time for America, perhaps — once more, not gonna pre-hate something — however as a result of I’ve already performed all of the jokes about Donald Trump,” he stated. “I don’t know what else to say in regards to the man. However, after all, he’ll present us with quite a lot of new materials, and I’ll get into it.”
He quipped: “I hoped that within the episodic tv present that’s America, I hoped for some new characters. It’s like they rebooted Matlock, however as an alternative of getting Kathy Bates, they put Andy Griffith again in there.”
Actual Time returns with its twenty third season on Friday, January 17, however Maher might be again on HBO with Is Anybody Else Seeing This? every week earlier in the identical time slot.
“Together with his signature sardonic wit and unfiltered strategy to discussing controversial points, the comic presents up his scathing commentary on the hypocrisies of each conservative and liberal politics, in addition to traits in fashionable parenting, intercourse and relationship, and faith,” HBO says in a synopsis of what stands as Maher’s thirteenth comedy particular on the premium cable channel.
Invoice Maher: Is Anybody Else Seeing This?, Friday, January 10, 10/9c, HBO
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Season 23 Premiere, Friday, January 17, 10/9c, HBO