Comedian Bill Maher tore into BuzzFeed and HuffPost on his podcast "Club Random" on Monday during an interview with Byron Allen, who owns both publications, calling them "peak woke." Allen said he recently purchased BuzzFeed and noted he owns HuffPost as well."All these places have been horrible to me," Maher said, naming HuffPost specifically."Once Arianna [Huffington] left and it became like the most woke."BILL MAHER OFFERS A STARK WARNING FOR DEMOCRATS CODDLING ANTISEMITES, CALLS OUT ‘WOKE IDIOTS’ IN THE PARTYBill Maher and Byron Allen speak during the "Club Random" podcast on July 13, 2026.
(BillMaher/"Club Random")Allen invested $120 million into BuzzFeed and is the new CEO of the company, Variety reported in May.BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost in 2020.After some back and forth, Maher said that HuffPost came down hard on him over the years."That's what I hate about the left.
The purity.And that's what HuffPost, I'm like — I'm worse than like the Republicans because I'm not pure with their — and a lot of what they believe, of course, is silly, insane revolutionary, garbage from people who don't know facts or history or perspective.
But that's okay.I don't have grudges against, I don't even read it," he said.He then said both HuffPost and BuzzFeed were full of millennial nepo babies."All these places are a bunch of snarky f---ing millennial, probably Nepo babies.
I mean, I just know how these kids, who have these jobs, how much they were indoctrinated before they got there and they are not America.So I don't know, you don't read your own publications?" Maher said.BILL MAHER CALLS MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST ‘PATIENT ZERO’ OF THE ‘WOKE MIND VIRUS’Byron Allen attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 2, 2025.
(Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)Allen said he's been there two to three weeks, and said he does read his publications."Like I said, I'm there two or three week...