Bill Maher Gives Update on Relationship With Larry David: ‘Certainly Is Not My Friend’
What To Know
- Bill Maher confirmed that he and Larry David are no longer friends following David’s public criticism of Maher’s dinner with President Trump.
- Maher expressed surprise at David’s satirical essay mocking him, noting that they have not spoken since its publication and that he responded to David’s comments on his show.
- He also revealed that Jimmy Kimmel was upset with him after Maher publicly discussed comments made by Kimmel’s wife about ending relationships over political differences.
Bill Maher has confirmed that he and Larry David are no longer friends after the Curb Your Enthusiasm star and creator called the Real Time host out for his April meeting with President Donald Trump.
Maher addressed the situation during a sit-down interview with The Free Press’ Maya Sulkin on Monday (December 22), where he was asked if anything he’s ever done or said publicly has “cost him invites, friends, [or] anything of that nature.”
“F**k yeah,” the Club Random podcast host answered.
When Sulkin followed up with, “Anyone you care about?” Maher said, “I mean, Larry David certainly is not really my friend anymore.”
The HBO host revealed he hasn’t spoken to David since the satirical essay he published in the New York Times earlier this year. In the piece, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” the Seinfeld co-creator mocked Maher’s White House dinner with Trump, whom Maher referred to as “gracious.”
“I said my piece on my last show,” Maher said, confirming that David didn’t reach out to him either. “I put him in my last editorial right before Thanksgiving.”
Maher admitted he was “surprised” by what David wrote, but noted he gave a “great clapback” on Real Time.
On the final episode of Real Time of 2025, Maher addressed his meeting with Trump and David’s comments. “The people who got all butt-hurt because I had dinner with [Trump]. You know, because he’s Hitler. Except he’s not… so unhelpful and dumb,” he said, per The Hollywood Reporter.
He added, “Every year, I used to ask Larry David to do Real Time, and he’d always say, ‘Bill, I can’t, I’m not smart enough about politics to do your show.’ Yeah, I get that now.”
During his interview with The Free Press, Maher also confessed, “Jimmy Kimmel got mad at me.” He was referring to how he publicly bashed Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, for saying she ended relationships with relatives who voted for Donald Trump.
“All I did was quote something his wife said publicly. I tried my best to only, like, stick to what she was saying and not take any cheap shots or pot shots,” Maher explained.
Maher previously addressed the Kimmel situation on his podcast earlier this month, saying, “I’m sorry. I mean, I was being, again, as respectful as I could, but I don’t agree with that point of view. And since she went public with it, it wasn’t out of school for me to go public with it. I love Jimmy. I always have. I don’t know him that well, but he’s a great guy.”
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Maher is a pompous as - hole.
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He is getting worse with age. I used to poo poo those claims away, saying he just had strong opinions but he has certainly taken a turn for the worse.
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first aswhole, then poo poo ( those claims away) I SMELL TEAM WORK!
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Shocked to see so many liberal tears here (not). Maher rejects woke dogma to stand up for moderation and compromise, and therefore must be excommunicated. But Trump is a cult. Right. The Democrats really are dead as a party and a people.
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Nice to see such non-partisanship.
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Yeah I still watch Maher, but getting to be painful. His Trump turn, and hugely unkind attack on palestinian misery are hard to listen to. He seems to be heading toward right wing crank-ism.
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Sometimes Maher could be funny and insightful, but he is prone to pose as an intellectual and ends up sounding arrogant.
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There is no reasoning with Trumpers. THAT'S why relationships end. It's THEIR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY. So F**K EM! They cling to their filthy lies, lies you can objectively disprove, and that's it. So all of this disunity is by design. THEIR DESIGN!!
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indeed. My adopted aunt and uncle are immigrants, black, and virulently super trumpers, to the point of having trump memorabilia ( the hats and yard signs in the living room) oh - and super Catholic
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Maher got used. Besides he hasn't been relevant in years. Why he still merits a show on HBO is a mystery
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bill has always been a pompous gland...it's just more obvious now because he's saying things we (his former core audience) don't like.
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Well, you certainly aren't an asshole....Oh wait yes you are. Also blatantly unfunny.
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The word love is being misused way too much these days. Maher says- "I love Jimmy. I always have. I don’t know him that well, but he’s a great guy.” WTF? And Kimmel is definitely not a "great guy" but the most bitter and hateful "comedic" host in America.
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Maher had Netanyahu on his show in 2006, fawned all over him, and allowed him to beg the US to Nuke Iran without ANY pushback on him. Now, he ghoulishly covers for Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. He’s not so subtly trying to normalize MAGA and Trump because Trump is fully enabling the most blood soaked regime there has ever been running Israel, and even giving credence to the idea of fully ethnically cleansing Gaza, and I’m sure eventually all the occupied territories. Israel is as great a country, with as great a people as any other, but they are currently run by ultra right with nut job monsters, and Maher seems to back that regime fully, and is giving Trump some modicum of credence because Trump also (of course) backs them.
Larry David was 100% (and hilariously) right about Maher.
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In his quest to be "fair and balanced" (tm), Bill seems to have forgotten that Hitler liked dogs and had a couple of girlfriends who loved him. Any doubt he wasn't charming to somebody at some dinner party somewhere?
Geez Dude, there's some standard of behavior that trumps (no pun originally intended, buts what the heck) "but he was nice to me." And it's way short of gas chambers and crematoria.
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Maher always offers valuable takes and perspectives you don't hear anywhere else. I'm not looking to listen to people who say what I already think. That's self-serving and keeps me close minded.i want to hear the entire spectrum of opinions so I can properly evaluate best as I can how I think about it. Anyone who only listens to people confirming what they already believe is not intellectual, not well-read, and lives steeped in a skewed world. Nobody is right all of the time.
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