Bill Maher Goes To Bat For Matt Damon After Recent Homophobic Slur Admission

Final night time on Real Time with Bill Maher, the HBO host went to bat for Matt Damon, who—he claims—is at the moment “flailing round in cancel tradition quicksand.” The favored actor lately acknowledged he used to make use of a typical homosexual slur whereas rising up in Boston, however has since stopped.

“Okay, he was late to the occasion. To which let’s imagine, ‘Welcome, glad you possibly can make it. Or let’s imagine, ‘You got here later than I did. Die,’” mentioned Maher facetiously. He claimed the Behind the Candelabra star is “one of the vital likeable guys in Hollywood, with impeccable liberal credentials.”

Throughout an interview with the U.Okay.’s Sunday Instances, Damon admitted he had lately stopped utilizing a derogatory time period in the direction of homosexuals after his daughter defined to him the offensive nature of the slur.

“There are too many individuals on this nation motivated not by what they actually consider, however by what is going to get Twitter to react to them with likes and retweets. That’s referred to as unhealthy religion,” mentioned Maher, blasting cancel tradition and headline writers – “Matt Damon isn’t a horrible particular person, he’s simply ignorant.”

“Actually? … He’s obtained a clear water charity and delivers meals to Haiti. What have you ever finished, Fox headline author? And but he’s all the time getting pulled over by the woke police.”

You may try the clip from Maher’s New Rule section above.

Maher started his present speaking about ageism with Martin Short and Steve Martin forward their new darkish comedy collection, Solely Homicide within the Constructing, premiering on Hulu. Maher joked that Martin having “white hair when he was three” was a superb transfer since he has all the time regarded the identical.

Martin mentioned that he has “by no means ever considered dying it.”

The night’s panel, which included Donna Brazile (USA At this time columnist and ABC Information contributor) in addition to Vice Information nationwide correspondent Michael Moynihan, spoke about local weather change and the tough subject of the Taliban’s fast takeover of Afghanistan since President Biden despatched house U.S. troops. “It’s horrible. Twenty years we had been there. All for nothing,” Maher exclaimed. “It’s like when Sean Hannity went to highschool.”

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