Bill Maher Defends ‘My Compatriot’ Jimmy Kimmel, Slams ABC and Recalls Getting Fired by the Network: ‘ABC Stands for “Always Be Caving”‘

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-maher-defends-jimmy-kimmel-slams-abc-always-be-caving-1236525144/

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  2. I don’t like being on the same side as Karl Rove, Bill Maher, Tucker Carlson and Michael Eisner

  3. Looking forward to the collapse of the zombie legacy networks, joining blockbuster in the media graveyard. Trump is unintentionally doing America a solid.

  4. Finally, Something I can agree on something with Bill Maher. He could have also said Azzh#oles be Caving.

  5. shut up Bill. you join fights when they’re over. little bitch

  6. The right wing is now responsible for two liberal talk shows on ABC being canceled

  7. Didn’t Bill have dinner with Trump and say he’s not a bad guy?

  8. What about me I was fire what about me I I I say it bill I had dinner with dump and he is a lovely guy poster child for a narcissist

  9. A lot of people online are saying Kimmel called the shooter Republican, he didn’t, he just pointed out how Republicans including the US president was trying to portray him as left leaning before they even knew who the shooter was. A US president should call for calm and Trump was immediately inciting people to be angry.

    Many say Kimmel isn’t entitled to a TV show, ofcourse he isn’t that’s not why his show is suspended.

    Some I am surprised to say cite Kimmel’s declining ratings as justification for cancelling him. This is not a valid reason whatsoever but it would be justified by a studio as a reason but obviously not why this happened.

    Kimmel is a late night chat show host, IT IS HIS JOB TO SATIRIZE the news every night this is what all people in his position have done for years and it represents a great foundation of the freedom of the media. If you feel he’s unfairly targeting Trump you are simply wrong it’s because Trump every single week it’s making headlines at like x50 times the rate of Obama, x20 the rate of Biden, x10 rate of W.Bush!

  10. Is there anyone this crowd loves to hate more than Bill Maher? Maybe chiropractors.

  11. Is this the same Bill Maher who recently bent the knee to Trump? The difference between Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel is that Jimmy Kimmel has integrity.

  12. What a world we live it, where the comedians are the one leading the charge in a monetary and poltical psudo revolution. Im here for it

  13. Yeah, I’m sorry. That doesn’t work for me.

    The man that called Trump “that he was birthed from a trist with his dad and an orangutan”, who just recently ran scared and became a Trump supporter.

    Now he’s just showing that he’s still butthurt after all these years from ABC firing him.

    You can’t make this shit up!

  15. Has he apologzied for being a Trump supporter and swears to never do it again?

    No? Then fuck that two-faced shitball.

  17. Hey Bill you have spent literally months actively trying to whitewash Trump.

  18. Fuck Shill Maher. Now he wants to say something after sanewashing Chump? Where was he when Colbert got got?!

  19. I don’t usually laugh at Maher’s jokes but

    Always Be Caving

    👏

  21. Im disappointed other leads at abc/disney arent quitting. Its not enough for 40k subscribers to cancel. They need marvel and other stars to pull back permanently

  22. Bring back Johnny Carson..late night entertainment for laughs not a political platform for smirks.

  23. Even when I agree with him (this feels like a first?), he is so embarrassing

  25. Bill Maher also defended Trump, knowing full well what this man is capable of. Pick a lane Bill.

  26. Also Bill Maher: I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him, and honestly? I voted for Clinton and Obama but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. That’s just how it went down. Make of it what you will. Me? I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days. He was even OK when I checked him on the orangutan lawsuit. He was. I know….

    I’m just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours. I went into the mine, and that’s what’s down there. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is (expletive) up. It’s just not as (expletive) up as I thought it was. And I have no illusions now that I’m back to work at my job that he might start a new list.

    Because I don’t have a good feeling and will be critical about a lot of what he’s doing: the trade war and disappearing people, ruling by decree, threatening judges, gutting the government with glee. But I also think he now understands I have a job to do, or at least he did on this night because he said to me early on that he’d seen our last episode, which was the Friday before this dinner And he said, ‘I thought maybe you’d be nice, but you’d hit me really hard.’ I did, because I’m not going to pull my punches that presidents get to propose a third term for themselves. He understood that, and without animus.”

  27. His show sounds a lot different pre second term Trump and post.

    He’s gone left of center to center now despite the right becoming even more radical this year.

    Still he’s doing the right thing standing with Kimmel.

  29. If you read the article Maher “has framed”, it says he caved and apologized for what he said at the time. He’s such milk toast.

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