Bill Maher Issues Bold Response to U.S. Bombing Iran
What To Know
- Bill Maher surprised viewers by expressing support for the U.S. bombing of Iran.
- He criticized Iran’s theocratic regime, linking it to decades of turmoil in the Middle East and referencing the happiness of Iranians he knows about the strike.
- Maher acknowledged widespread American opposition to the war and joked about Kamala Harris’s awareness of public sentiment.
Bill Maher just issued a bold response to the U.S. bombing Iran — and it likely surprised his liberal viewers.
During the Friday, March 6 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the stand-up comedian, 70, addressed the military strikes that began in late February. The HBO show had been on a one-week hiatus during the initial attacks by the U.S. and Israel, which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Also this week: war. Did you hear about that thing?” Maher joked in his opening monologue, which ran through everything the show missed while it was on a break. “We bombed Iran, and it’s going on now.”
That’s when he bluntly declared, “If you expected me to say I hate it, I don’t. Sorry. When he puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it.”
Trump fired Kristi Noem. He did it by tweet while she was giving a speech. She never saw it coming. Now she knows how her dog felt. pic.twitter.com/XVUSqIHxuH
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) March 7, 2026
Maher explained that he knows “too many happy Iranians,” adding, “You cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.”
After showing footage of Iranians doing the “Trump dance” next to a clip of the POTUS doing his signature move, Maher quipped, “The whole world is jerking off two guys at once.”
To conclude his thoughts on the topic, he quoted former Vice President Kamala Harris, saying, “This is a war the American people don’t want.” He then joked, “And who knows more about what the American people don’t want?”
However, Maher also pointed out that she is correct, as a recent poll showed that the majority of Americans don’t want the war.
Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays at 10/9c, HBO
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To each their own. Wouldn't it be a boring day on the internet if we all thought the same way?!
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Bending the knee and kissing the ring is now a "bold response"? I've always found Maher as funny as a root canal but American television "comedians" are really jesters in the service of the regime.
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I used to like him before he got COVID.
Since then he's dropped all his liberal pretending and gone full support for the rich and powerful. Also a supposed "atheist", he's now doubling down on being pro Israel no matter what they do to anyone, he shuts down any criticism of Israel as antisemitic or says that arabs kill gays and persecute women. Tired tropes, all three and it's sad that he's devolved into a shill for a genocidal state
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so glad bill isn't trying to get attention all the time. oh, wait!
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