Bill Maher’s Latest Attack On Larry David Reeks Of Desperation
Bill Maher desperately wants to be in a feud with Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David, possibly because David would never consider putting Maher in one of his hit shows.Back in March, the long-time center-left late-night host attended a dinner at the White House hosted by President Donald Trump on the urging of their mutual friend Kid Rock. In a following episode of his show Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian lauded Trump’s warmth and his hospitality, positing that the real President is much more thoughtful and humane than the version of Trump that appears in the media.Amidst the flood of criticism that followed Maher’s public praise of Trump, David’s satirical New York Times essay “My Dinner with Adolf” stood out as the most hilarious and completely deserved takedown of the famous fence-sitter and his attempt to humanize Trump, all while the President waged war on most government institutions and cultural conventions. Since then, Maher has been publicly complaining about David to anyone who will listen, most recently devoting a chunk of the Real Time season finale to again trash David's joke about his dinner date.
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On Friday, Maher claimed that David didn’t consider himself smart enough to debate the Real Time host on TV. Even if that were true, it still wouldn't make Maher funny enough to star in a sitcom.
During the Real Time episode, Maher devoted much of his time and energy to renewing his defense against criticisms of his Trump coverage following the White House dinner. “This is so childish, so purely emotional — the people who got all butt-hurt because I had dinner with him," Maher complained, "You know, ’cause he’s Hitler. Except he’s not. So unhelpful and dumb. Trump is the most supportive president Israel and the Jews ever had.”
Then, the doozy – “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,’" Maher dubiously claimed, "Yeah, I get that now.”“What exactly is the argument? That by talking to Trump I’ll elevate him? Oh my god, don’t tell me he could become president," Maher continued to rage, "Well, I guess (Zohran) Mamdani is gonna elevate Trump because he went to the White House today, and look who’s getting along now?”The irony that Maher called David and critics like him “butt-hurt” when Maher is the one who can't stop whining about the backlash every time he has a Trump ally on his podcast seemed to be lost on the Real Time audience, but it isn't to us. Because, after David wrote the Mel-Brooks-level satire of Maher's monologue following the Trump dinner, David moved on, having already written everything that needed to be said about the topic.
Just in the last few weeks – and more than seven months after his dinner with Trump – Maher bad-mouthed David to his Curb co-star Cheryl Hines (who just so happens to be married to Trump's health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), he cried to Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump about the meanies on the left and he devoted the season finale of his late-night show to reminding everyone how much David triggered him.All the while, Maher's feud with David has been one-sided, since David clearly has better things to do than to validate Maher's hurt feelings. No doubt, a proper publicity war would be huge for Maher's career, but, since David refuses to bite, Maher will have to get his much-craved attention by taking a page out of Trump's “Just Be Inflammatory!” book.
