Bill Maher calls out Jimmy Kimmel for not acknowledging he defended him during ABC suspension: thanked everyone but me

Bill Maher ripped Jimmy Kimmel for “thanking everyone” but him after Maher publicly defended the late-night host when ABC suspended his show.Maher, 69, told Michael Rapaport on Monday’s episode of his “Club Random” podcast that he was among the celebs who slammed Disney-owned ABC for pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air on Sept.17 after Kimmel falsely claimed Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, was a Trump supporter.But after Kimmel returned on Sept.

23, Maher noticed he wasn’t among those the host thanked for standing by him.“Look, Jimmy apparently doesn’t like me too much anymore because he thanked everybody but me.And I was adamant — adamant — about supporting him that week and the next week,” Maher said.Maher said he didn’t “agree” with Kimmel’s comments about Robinson, but stressed “he has the right to be wrong,” which is why he defended him.“I can’t lie and say I think what he said was accurate,” Maher added.

“But I was adamant he shouldn’t be thrown off the air.He did a great show.

I went on and on.”Maher then criticized Kimmel’s format and other late-night shows as “very predictable,” arguing their hosts are “ideologically captured by one side.”“Him and hosts like that, quite frankly, they’re all quite similar in this regard – is that they’re ideologically captured by one side,” he said.“It’s just not what I do, what I’m doing.And so, there’s a reason why half the country feels insulted by them [hosts] and is turned off to them, because it’s just one very predictable point of view.”Maher added that Kimmel’s suspension stemmed from being “far in the bubble.”“And this proves that it’s often not completely accurate because that was not really a smart thing to say, that this guy who shot Charlie Kirk was on the MAGA team,” Maher added.‘Because that’s just something that the Bluesky crowd told themselves, and if you’re that far in the bubble,...