“Real rights are denied and real lives are at stake because of, you know, what comics thought was an anti-woke gist was just about their language issue. And now they were used under the auspices of anti-woke,” Maron said.<\/p>\n

“You destroy all the policy that help people who are vulnerable or marginalized or in trouble. I can’t separate that. I will remain committed to the fact that they did that comics helped that,” Maron said.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Maron and Maher have both been among the few comedians invited to the political podcast, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Stewart, and Mike Birbiglia. Maher also hosted Maron on his own <em>Real Talk<\/em> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shock-half-of-covid-19-unemployment-funds-may-have-gone-to-scammers\/\" title=\"SHOCK: \u2018Half\u2019 Of COVID-19 Unemployment Funds May Have Gone To Scammers\">previous program<\/a>, <em>Politically Incorrect. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>“I always had a problem with his tone,” Maron said of Maher. “I feel with Bill that there is this — and it happens with some of the other boomers — there’s this desperate chasing of relevance that, you know, changes someone’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do and also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate,” Maron said.<\/p>\n<p>“Outside of his ideas about primarily, I think wokeness, I don’t know, it’s just not for me,” Maron said. “But I can’t see past, you know, the desperation in what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation.”<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3482256\/trump-podcast-bros-shaking-up-politics-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>BAND OF BROS: TRUMP’S PODCAST MANOSPHERE IS SHAKING UP POLITICS AND THE PRESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Maher’s publicist for comment.<\/p>\n<p>HBO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/real-time-with-bill-maher-renewed-hbo-2026-1235857494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">renewed<\/a> <em>Real Time with Bill Maher<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/real-time-with-bill-maher-renewed-hbo-2026-1235857494\/\"> <\/a>last year for two seasons, which will last through 2026. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Maron slams Bill Maher for ‘desperate’ anti-woke stance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2478607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25153526113900.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32100,41369,61968,33295,37977],"class_list":["post-2478606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bill-maher","tag-celebrity-feud","tag-marc-maron","tag-media-criticism","tag-news-coverage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25153526113900.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478610,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478606\/revisions\/2478610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}