The late-night host has faced harsh criticism after announcing the return of his show last week.
Bill Maher is the latest host to walk back plans to return to TV without WGA writers amid the Hollywood strikes.
Maher credited reports that the AMPTP would soon return to negotiations with the striking WGA as the reason for this reversal. "My decision to return to work was made when it seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in sight to this strike," Maher tweeted on Monday. "Now that both sides have agreed to go back to the negotiating table I'm going to delay the return of Real Time, for now, and hope they can finally get this done."
After announcing last week that Real Time with Bill Maher would return to production "sans writers or writing," the host faced immense pushback. Keith Olbermann, for example, tweeted: "As somebody who's known you since 1978: F--- you, Bill."
Real Time with Bill Maher joins The Drew Barrymore Show, The Talk, and The Jennifer Hudson Show in delaying their planned returns amid pressure from strikers.
Now that the unions have flexed their power and demonstrated the public's continuing sympathy with the strikers, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) is returning to the negotiating table. Deadline reports that the AMPTP will resume bargaining with the WGA this Wednesday.
It's a shame Bill Maher lost his mind. Remember when he was still pro-Bernie? That was great
And then he accidentally said the n-word on his show, and was forced to apologize for it. Remember the apology show where he invited black people on just to dump on him?
I'm CONVINCED that Maher was super-pissed about the whole incident, because if a similar comedian had dropped the n-word in that context, it would have been Bill Maher out there defending him, saying "this guy has been giving a platform to black celebrities and leaders, and been on the right side of every race issue for 30 years! It was a bad joke, but this guy is CLEARLY an ally."
But no one said that for Bill, and he didn't have the courage to say it for himself. So he felt like was a victim of cancel culture. He thinks the "woke left" are the ones that fucked him over. In fact it was probably the Uber-rich Republican network heads who gave him an ultimatum.
Anyway, I think that was the moment he decided that the "woke left" was the REAL problem in this country, and he's had a non-stop temper tantrum about it ever since.