Lower than 24 hours after CNN aired the primary joint interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Bill Maher had some ideas on the questions Dana Bash requested the duo.
The host kicked off the newest episode of Actual Time by requested the viewers in the event that they watched the Thursday night time sit-down interview with the Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Tim Walz, “her emotional support” vice chairman.
“It was a little odd,” Maher quipped. “He was just sitting there for a very long time without saying anything. He was just nodding while she did all the talking. The women’s focus group said he must be a wonderful husband. But really, it just kept going and he was saying nothing. It was like watching Jeopardy! when one of the players can’t work the buzzer.”
The comic famous that previous to the CNN interview, the media had been “furious” that Harris hadn’t achieved any in depth interviews with nationwide retailers since launching her marketing campaign for the White Home after Joe Biden stepped down in July.
Nonetheless, Maher mentioned, “Now she finally does and not a single question about abortion, Ukraine, the homeless, the Opioid crisis, the national debt.”
“And then they wonder why the kids get their news from TikTok,” the host joked.
Maher additionally thinks main information retailers “always ask the stupidest question in the world: ‘What would you do on day one?’ You know, it’s not that kind of a fucking job, OK? It’s just not that kind of a job.”
“I would just one time love to hear somebody go, ‘You know what I’d do? I’d unpack some boxes and I’d get dressed for the inaugural party like anybody else,’” the comic added.
Harris and Walz’s first televised interview collectively on CNN drew 6.31 million viewers, in keeping with closing same-day rankings from Nielsen. The Democratic presidential did focus on a few of her plans for serving to middle-class Individuals, in addition to disregarded a query about Donald Trump’s race feedback, telling Bash, “Same old, tired playbook.”
On Actual Time, Maher additionally famous that Trump “of course had to shit tweet while he was watching” the CNN interview, calling it “boring.”
Nonetheless, the comic mentioned he “wants some boring,” including, “It’s Harris-Walz, not Deadpool and Wolverine.”
The company featured on the newest episode of Maher’s HBO present have been Rep. Nancy Pelosi, John McWhorter and Peter Hamby.
