{"id":661869,"date":"2026-08-29T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661869\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:26:16","slug":"bill-maher-delivers-lamest-dolly-parton-tribute-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661869\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Delivers Lamest Dolly Parton Tribute Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLast week, Bill Maher<\/a> dedicated his long-running HBO<\/a> show \u201cReal Time\u201d to defending Trump \u201chuman printer\u201d Natalie Harp \u2014 after admitting he was too afraid to mock her oddly close relationship with President Trump because Laura Loomer sued him for ridiculing theirs (the lawsuit was tossed) \u2014 and getting chummy with Hunter Biden during his curious media blitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the top of his show Friday night, the 70-year-old comedian lightly mocked Trump\u2019s latest culture war offensive against Canada before offering one of the worst tributes to the late, great Dolly Parton<\/a> that you\u2019ll ever hear.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll this is going on and all America could really talk about this week was how sad it is that we lost Dolly Parton<\/a>,\u201d declared Maher. \u201cEverybody around the country, even around the world \u2014 [in] London they\u2019re doing things. The Santa Monica Ferris wheel is lit up with hearts. The Empire State Building was put up in pink. The Sphere in Las Vegas added a nipple.\u201d Get it?<\/p>\n

\n\tParton died this week at the age of 80<\/a> after what her team called a \u201cbrief battle with cancer.\u201d She was not only a country music legend and cultural icon but an extraordinary philanthropist whose Imagination Library has inspired millions of kids around the world to read<\/a>. She was also, perhaps, our last universally beloved celebrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Bill Maher dedicated his long-running HBO show \u201cReal Time\u201d to defending Trump \u201chuman printer\u201d Natalie Harp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[16139,67586,18,117,9540,19,17,19245,128],"class_list":["post-661869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bill-maher","tag-dolly-parton","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-real-time-with-bill-maher","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117177850557067174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}