Bill Maher blasts liberal celebrities for tone-deaf COVID behavior
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Talk show host Bill Maher said Monday that celebrities are comically out of touch during the Covid-19 pandemic, even though they say they’re struggling alongside ordinary Americans.
On the “Club Random” podcast, Maher talked with his guest, media mogul Byron Allen, about how much they prefer to live in houses, even in the nicest apartments, where they will have to share the walls with other people.
“I don’t want to speak for all New Yorkers, but when COVID hit they definitely started to agree with us,” Allen said, noting that many New Yorkers fled the city for places like Aspen or the Hamptons during the pandemic.
Maher said this is a perfect example of how rich liberal rhetoric during the pandemic has not matched actual behavior.
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Comedian and author Bill Maher has repeatedly slammed outspoken celebrities and warned that they are incapable of truly connecting with ordinary people. (Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images)
“You know, that was one of my biggest mistakes with COVID, and the people attacking me about COVID, every time I turned on the TV, it was a version of saying, ‘We’re all in this together,’” he recalled. “No we’re not, you fucking fakers, you fucking fakers.”
During this time, Maher added, “Half of us is delivering food by the other half. And you’re the half of us sitting at home in their pajamas talking about how much we’re all in this together.”
“No, you’re going to the Hamptons. I know you’ve been posting political messages on Instagram about it and that’s great,” he sarcastically joked.
Despite being a left-leaning celebrity herself, Maher has repeatedly expressed how her liberal celebrity friends fail to connect with the struggles of ordinary people and come off as tone-deaf when they try to do so.
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Media mogul Byron Allen spoke with comedian Bill Maher about how many New Yorkers are fleeing the city if they can afford it during the pandemic. (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)
He went on to argue that such celebrities are essentially insulated from the problems of ordinary people.
“If we’re really all in this together, I have an idea,” Maher said. “How about we take turns talking about who works for Grubhub? You know, if we’re really all in this together, maybe this should be something that needs to be delegated. So instead of some of us doing deliveries all the time, some of us do deliveries part of the time, and some of us are in our pajamas all the time.”
One moment that illustrated this disconnect from the pandemic was when several celebrities, including Gal Gadot, Will Ferrell, Mark Ruffalo, Pedro Pascal, and Natalie Portman, sang John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
While the song is widely known for imagining a utopian global “brotherhood of man” without religion or country, the lyrics “Imagine there’s no heaven” and “Imagine there’s no cost” have been seen as particularly tone-deaf sentiments from wealthy celebrities as millions of people lose loved ones and livelihoods in a global pandemic.
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During the height of the epidemic, food delivery and grocery delivery apps skyrocketed in popularity as people were discouraged from going to public spaces. (Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
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Years later, Gadot commented that the video was in “bad taste” in retrospect.
