Bill Maher opened up Monday about why he refuses to do stand-up comedy shows in today’s political climate after recently filming his 13th HBO comedy special, “Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”
Speaking on Monday’s episode of his “Club Random” podcast, Maher told guest Patton Oswalt that a “number of things” prompted him to “[get] off the road this year” and put an end to his nearly 50-year run of doing live comedy shows.
“I feel like it was a great choice because I don’t want to be out there in this country in this political atmosphere,” he said. “I could get shot by the left or the right.”
Maher also went on to admit that he “just got tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me.”
“That’s partly because I’m on TV every week,” he continued. “And not that I didn’t sell a lot of tickets and do great theaters, but I didn’t sell [out] arenas, and some people did who frankly are not that great.”
