Bill Maher Hits Back at Larry David for Mocking Him Over Trump Visit
Bill Maher has fired back at Larry David after the Curb Your Enthusiasm star spoofed the Real Time host’s recent meeting with President Donald Trump in a New York Times essay titled “My Dinner With Adolf.”
Despite the comedians being long-time friends, David skewered Maher’s White House visit in a fictional account of an Adolf Hitler critic meeting the Führer to hear his side. While David never mentioned Maher by name in the piece, it came just days after the HBO star talked about how the President was a “gracious” host and “much more self-aware than he lets on.”
Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Thursday (April 24), Maher was asked about David’s essay, to which he responded, “This wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship.”
“I don’t want to get too much into that, but I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you’ve lost the argument,” he continued, noting that “nobody has been harder about and more prescient about Donald Trump than me.”
Maher added, “I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn’t change that. And the fact I reported honestly is not a sin either.”
As for the comparisons to Hitler, Maher stated, “I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know, like, that should kind of be in its own place in history. It’s just, look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place.”
He continued, “[Hitler] is the GOAT of evil. And we’re just going to have to, I think, leave it like that. So, you know, did I think that was appropriate? No, but people have the right to this.”
Maher made it clear he didn’t want to make this “personal with me and Larry,” saying, “We might be friends again.”
“I can take a shot, and I can also take it when people disagree with me. That’s not exactly the way I would’ve done it. Again, the irony: let’s go back to what my original thing was. There’s got to be a better way than hurling insults and not talking to people. So, if I can talk to Trump, I can talk to Larry David too,” he concluded.
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Bill just doesn't want to admit Larry is right.
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You didn’t know who Larry David is? You’ve also got him all wrong.
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I'm guessing when Colbert, Meyers, and "SNL" are back with new eps, they'll make hay of all this between Maher and David!
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Notably, Bill Maher's complaint buries the most pertinent comparison of the essay: Not Trump to Hitler, but himself to the supposed-contrarian cum buttsucker-to-the-fascist-stars portrayed in David's incredibly effective piece of satire.
Also, for what it's worth, the NY Times editor clarifies that David's intent is not to compare Trump to Hitler.
But even more to the point, I'm a little baffled by all this bristling, by Maher or anyone else, at comparing Trump to Hitler.
A small newsflash: Anyone indulging the analogy is comparing Trump to the rise in Hitlerian fascism -- not the end result.
Anyway who raises the complaint that Trump has not committed a Holocaust is being intentionally obtuse. I mean . . . you don't wait to warn about fascism. You get in at the ground floor. You know, to avoid the logical end results. . . Applying knowledge culled from studying our histories before things get irreversibly out of hand is kind of the idea.
It's like when people bristle at the use of the "And then they came for me" poem in relation to Trump's fascistic rise: why demonstrate aloofness to the pointless disposal of democracy for a sociopath's fascistic ends by complaining about the use of a poem demonstrating ... well ... aloofness to the pointless disposal of democracy for a sociopath's fascistic ends . . . ?
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I think Larry David needs to grow up! People that think like him are so full of hate they won’t even try to see a different take or opinion. It is there way or no way and that is a sad life to live!
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Shut up Bill. You haven't been relevant since..............Well never quite frankly.
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