Howard Stern Is Not Happy with Bill Maher's Comments on His Marriage

It’s nice to read about bullsh*t drama between two dudes, and it’s even nicer when Bill Maher is clearly on the wrong side of it. Here, Bill Maher — who has had an off-and-on friendship with Howard Stern over the years — has put the friendship in jeopardy again with, honestly, some inexplicable comments about Stern and his second wife, Beth Stern.

On Maher’s podcast, Maher criticized Stern for showing appreciation for Beth to the detriment — Maher apparently believes — of Stern’s first wife, Alison Berns.

“How does this gushing about the second wife — how does that make the first wife feel? Could we just not gush about the person while the other person can still hear it?” Bill Maher said.

What?! OK, first off, Howard Stern and his first wife have been divorced for well over two decades. Stern has been married to his second wife for 15 years. This is not a new husband rubbing his newlywed wife into his ex-wife’s face. I don’t know what Berns’ relationship with Stern is, but I seriously doubt she’s listening to his radio show every morning, anyway.

Second, exactly what Stern said:

“What a sexist thing to say! Like, what a convoluted, nutty thing to say. It’s assuming that he knows something about my first marriage. That, of course, the man must be leaving the woman and the woman must be devastated and be sitting around pining away for her famous man. He ought to shut his mouth! I mean, I don’t think I come on the air every day and say, ‘I love my wife.’ But I thought it was a pretty positive message, to — especially with my audience — to say to guys: ‘Instead of like ragging on our wives, how about talking about that we appreciate them and love them?’”

Stern added that he emailed Bill Maher about his comments but did not hear back. “I think I’m no longer friends with him,” Stern concluded.

Source: People