Bill Maher Sad That Jimmy Kimmel Kicked Him to the Curb

My family moved around a lot when I was younger, so it has never been super hard for me to move on from relationships or friendships. That became the case even more when I settled in New York City at 18, found myself in the working world at 20, and was working a job that would have me meeting and forming intense bonds with people who could be out of my life as quickly as a week later, and I would just move on. I’m not saying it’s inherently a good thing, but it made dealing with a terrible political and social landscape even easier.

I’ve had very close friends and family members that I will likely never talk to again, thanks to their social and political views, and I’m really okay with that. One such friend sat on my couch, in front of my wife and me, who are both mixed race, and noted that he would never impregnate a white woman because he didn’t want to muddy his bloodline. An uncle of mine once hopped on Facebook to tell me how good it would be if the president sent the military to clean up NYC as protests were getting out of control (and that was in 2020, which feels almost quaint now).

Cutting people like that off is not only not hard, but it’s beneficial for my mental health. I even tried to have talks with the pure-bloodline friend, in the hopes that maybe he had just fallen in with some bad people that poisoned his brain (and that poison even extended beyond the bigotry he displayed in front of me). But when it was clear he would not back down, I moved on, and I am better for it. So, I understand completely why Jimmy Kimmel would cut ties with someone like Bill Maher.

Maher recently sat in his weird basement to chat with Adam Corolla about the lack of manliness in society or some such nonsense, and Maher made a plea to Corolla. “Jimmy Kimmel, you know, he’s very mad at me, and I know you’re close to him,” Maher explained. “I hope you tell him that I’m sorry that it got bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong. We can have disagreements. I mean, you and I don’t agree on everything, look at this clash now, and yet we’re cool.” He then went on to his usual tirade about how he wants to be a leftist, but they don’t like him because of who he is as a person, yadda yadda yadda.

But what happened with Kimmel? Variety may have connected the dots for us. They noted that, late last year, Maher took shots at Molly McNearney, Kimmel’s wife, for explaining at one point that she had cut off Republican family members. It’s pretty understandable to take issue with family for supporting a man who constantly attacks your husband, but that was a bridge too far for Bill. He gave her guff about it in one of his stupid monologues, and it appears that Kimmel told him to get lost as a result.

Maher went out of his way to say that Kimmel is one of the nicest guys around, but I don’t think that will fix things here, and that’s probably for the best. I don’t think Maher will come away from it having learned anything, but there’s always a chance. Regardless, good on Kimmel, who has been friends with Maher long enough that he’s been to that awful, aforementioned basement within the last few years. Kimmel does seem like a genuinely nice guy, and cutting off friends isn’t easy for everybody. But, dammit, sometimes, that’s the only recourse you have.