Bill Maher Whined About the Golden Globes Before He Even Lost

Bill Maher is cozy enough to attend basketball games with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, a man who can’t stop handing Maher millions, so you’ll probably be surprised to hear that the Real Time host just can’t catch a break in this town. That’s right. All of Hollywood is against Bill Maher, which is why he knew he wasn’t going to win at the Golden Globes. Well, you stinking jerks are about to get an earful.

A few days prior to his loss, and getting flame-broiled by Wanda Sykes on live TV, Maher pulled a Megyn Kelly by going on his podcast and complaining to Joel Edgerton about how he never wins these things.

Via Variety:

“Sweetheart, I’ve been nominated for 33 Emmys, and they would never give it to me,” he said. “That’s not a gag number. That’s a real number. It’s crazy.”

Maher sold himself a bit short, actually getting 41 Emmy nods across his projects, and winning once for outstanding informational series or special for “Vice” in 2014 in his role as executive producer. This year’s Golden Globe nomination was his first.

The comedian went on to speculate that, “Obviously, it’s something I said. Well, it’s everything I said,” and “I speak freely, and this woke town f**ing hates that. And that’s okay. I’ve made my peace with that. So I know how this goes.”

Take that, Hollywood! Bill Maher is hip to your game and why you only hand him buckets of cash to have an HBO talk show that just got renewed after inviting Louis CK on to joke about harassing women.

So you don’t want to give Bill one of your shiny awards? He doesn’t care, man. He’s not going to cry about it. He’s not going to come up with weird excuses like the whole town is woke. No, sir, you won’t get that kind of satisfaction from Bill Maher, free speaker extraordinaire.