Bill Maher Addresses Rumored 'Real Time' Exit After Trump Election
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The political pundit also curiously downplayed his prior concerns Friday on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" about the dangers of another Trump term.
Bill Maher says he won’t be leaving HBO’s “Real Time” anytime soon.
The comedian and political pundit confirmed as much during an interview Friday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” after suggesting in December on his “Club Random” podcast that he “may quit” due to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election a month prior.
“What I was saying was that I didn’t want to do another Trump term,” Maher told Tapper. “Not just because I don’t think it’s going to be possibly a great time for America ... but because I’ve already done all the jokes about Donald Trump. I don’t know what else to say.”
“I was hoping that in the episodic television show that is America, I was hoping for some new characters,” he added, about Trump’s continued cultural and political reign. “But it’s like they rebooted ‘Matlock,’ but instead of getting Kathy Bates they put Andy Griffith back in it.”
The 1980s legal drama starring Griffith was rebooted last year with Bates in the titular role.
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