Bill Maher identifies left’s ‘Achilles heel’ in wide-ranging interview

Bill Maher, the HBO host, gave a wide-ranging interview with an Alabama paper about the current state of comedy in America amid deep political rifts in the country.

"It was great to see where there were people who don’t agree politically who can get in the same room," he told the paper. "There were a few groans from the right when I said something bad about them, and some from the left when that happened. But basically, everyone laughed together. And we have to get back to that."

Maher, a self-decribed old-school liberal, has not always been embraced by conservatives, but they've warmed up to him after he became something of an antagonist against "wokeism." And criticism from Maher, a comedian who despises former President Trump, seems to have more weight than workaday conservative commentators. 

He famously sent a message to the Democratic Party in November, during an appearance on CNN. "The reason why you're so toxic is because you've become the party of no common sense," he said at the time.