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   Count your blessings, Bill.  No loss.   
      
   Bill Maher said during a recent “Club Random” podcast interview (via   
   Mediaite) with Adam Carolla that Jimmy Kimmel is “very mad at me.” Carolla   
   and Kimmel used to work together as co-hosts of “The Man Show” on Comedy   
   Central from 1999 to 2004.   
      
   “Jimmy Kimmel, you know, he’s very mad at me and I know you’re close to   
   him,” Maher told Carolla. “I hope you tell him that I’m sorry that it got   
   bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong. We can have   
   disagreements. I mean, you and I don’t agree on everything, look at this   
   clash now, and yet we’re cool.”   
      
   “The Republicans are always this sort of difference between the right and   
   the left. It bugs me so much,” Maher continued, noting how Democrats   
   struggle with criticism far more than Republicans. “My tribe is supposed   
   to be the left, but these are the people who just can’t talk to you unless   
   you’re exactly there, whereas the Republicans, they always fucking come to   
   my show. John Kennedy from Louisiana was on last week, took his beating   
   like a man, like they all do, and we came across lovingly and smilingly   
   and happily and we can disagree.”   
      
   Maher said that Kimmel is “one of the nicest guys,” but he is not going to   
   go the traditional late-night route when it comes to political humor.   
   Maher will always take aim at both political parties, “and if that’s not   
   good enough for you, then I think you’re the asshole,” the “Real Time”   
   host added.   
      
   “I don’t just buy into the left-wing bullshit, and I never stop making fun   
   of the right-wing bullshit at all!” Maher said. “And like, if that’s not   
   good enough for you, then I think you’re the asshole, and I don’t think   
   Jimmy is an asshole… I think he’s a great guy, and it bugs me that, you   
   know, because of what the latest thing was, that, you know, we may never   
   talk again.”   
      
   While Maher did not say directly why Kimmel is mad at him, it appears tied   
   to a “Real Time” episode last November, where Maher called out Kimmel’s   
   wife, Molly McNearney, for revealing she had cut ties with Trump-loving   
   family members.   
      
   McNearney joined Kimmel for an interview on the “We Can Do Hard Things”   
   podcast at the time and opened up on her “challenging” relationships with   
   Trump-supporting family members amid the president’s ongoing feud with   
   Kimmel. She said she has “sympathy” for her relatives who are   
   “deliberately being misinformed every day,” but “it hurts me so much   
   because of the personal relationship I now have where my husband is out   
   there fighting this man.”   
      
   “To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and   
   our family,” she added, saying “unfortunately” she has “lost relationships   
   with people in my family because of it.”   
      
   Maher responded to McNearney’s reveal on “Real Time” by saying: “She says   
   she’s lost relationships with relatives because she wrote them an email   
   before the election with ten reasons why they shouldn’t vote for Trump,   
   and some still didn’t obey, so you know. Ultimatums. Ten reasons? I can   
   think of 100. But I would never present it to someone as an ultimatum.   
   Ultimatums don’t make people rethink their politics. They make them   
   rethink you.”   
      
   The host then said on a December episode of the “Club Random” podcast that   
   Kimmel was mad at him for the criticism, adding: “I was as kid-gloved as I   
   could. And I see they’re mad at me. Uh, 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’ve always have. I don’t know him that   
   well, but he’s a great guy… I hope we’re friends forever, but I don’t   
   know. You know, the liberals and the woke, that’s a schism. It just is.”   
      
   Watch the latest episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast in the video   
   below.   
      
   https://youtu.be/jHY5eFrOw7E   
      
   https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bill-maher-jimmy-kimmel-feud-politics-   
   1236657444/   
      
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