Within the Season 22 finale of Actual Time With Bill Maher, the host took goal at Donald Trump‘s much-derided cupboard picks, even pausing at one level to snicker heartily as he implied that the jokes write themselves.
“Do I actually have to jot down jokes for this?” Invoice Maher mentioned amid chuckles.
Starting his final episode of the 12 months, Maher began with an off-color joke referencing Trump’s Entry Hollywood tape: “The Republicans, man, after they take energy, they seize it by the pussy. They don’t f— round. They’re not even in cost but, they only received the election. Already, large modifications within the Home. They elected the primary transgender particular person within the Home, so instantly the Republicans have now banned her from with the ability to go to the restroom. Yeah, thank God the adults are again in cost,” he sarcastically quipped.
He mentioned, “Straight away, Lindsey Graham volunteered to test for dicks.” Maher continued the bit, referencing Graham’s redundant compliments — through which he referred to as Trump’s naming of former Florida lawyer basic Pam Bondi for AG following Matt Gaetz‘s withdrawal a “grand slam, landing, gap in a single, ace, hat trick, slam dunk, Olympic gold medal decide” — “as a result of nothing says ‘I’m straight’ like overcompensating with a sports activities metaphor.”
Of Gaetz’s withdrawal, he joked, “The Republicans mentioned, ‘Sure, too despicable, even for us,’ which I respect.”
“Then there’s Fox & Associates‘ Pete Hegseth, who’s nominated to be the Secretary of Protection. He was accused — once more, simply accused — of getting, she says, nonconsensual sexual relations, he says, consensual. So once more, we don’t know. You weren’t there. I wasn’t there. We don’t know, but it surely does elevate the query, has anybody ever had intercourse with somebody from Fox Information and favored it?” he mentioned.
Concluding his opening monologue forward of the present, he quipped: “I’m not saying this crew won’t be good at their jobs, however they would be the first cupboard that’s requested to remain [outside] 500 toes of a college. You understand that ineffective sexual harassment seminar that all of us should do at work? We lastly discovered an workplace that wants it.”
As previously reported by Deadline in March, HBO renewed the present to the tip of 2026. Throughout the present, Maher mentioned he would return as host within the new 12 months Jan. 17, together with his comedy particular Is Anybody Else Seeing This? to air per week earlier on HBO.
