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Bill Maher Performs During New York Comedy Festival Comedian Bill Maher, currently touring in the southern United States, explained that he can never write off former President Donald Trump’s supporters because he’d have to hate “half the country.”
Speaking to AL.com just ahead of the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, Maher said that he believed American democracy was coming to a crossroads. “January 2025 is going to be where the rubber hits the road in this country. We’ve been heading towards this cliff for a very long time, and we always think we’re the country where it can’t happen. Well, we thought that about terrorism. We thought that about everything. We’re not exempt. We are the country where it can happen,” he said.
Maher addressed a series of questions in the interview — from political correctness in comedy to Twitter banning Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — and he explained why he loves performing in red states, particularly in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This country is falling apart at the seams. Half the people are not going to self-deport. You see these tweets and memes about owning and destroying the other side. Get over it. You’re not owning or destroying anybody. No one’s going anywhere. We have to learn to live together again,” Maher explained, saying that people seemed more willing to accept that in red states. “San Francisco, that’s going to be a little problematic for me. They’re a little too politically correct. There’s going to be a lot of groaning at some of the things I say, and that’s not what a comedy show is supposed to be. Political correctness has always been the enemy of comedy. That’s been my banner from the beginning.”
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