Bill Maher

“He’d attract a lot of Republican votes… and I suspect a lot of disaffected Democrats,” writes conservative blogger Steven Hayward, who was impressed with Maher’s take on the L.A. Wildfires this past Friday.

“It’s just wrong,” Maher tells Dana Carvey and David Spade in a new episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast “If you’re gonna make fun of people, go both sides.” [via The Daily Beast]

“He was joking around,” Nina Rosenstein, HBO’s EVP of Late Night told Deadline Monday of Maher’s recent comments in an episode of his podcast.