Bill Maher went off on Friday on some of the biggest issues of the week.
As our sister site Townhall reported earlier, he raked Dr. Anthony Fauci over the coals over the things in his diary and his "main character syndrome." This was quite the evisceration.
Warning for graphic language:
“Last week I played a game here called, ‘Who said it: Fauci or Trump?’” Maher said. “Let’s play!”
Bill Maher absolutely unloads on Anthony Fauci after reading entries from his diary to the audience.
— Overton (@overton_news) August 8, 2026
Maher couldn’t believe the level of “main character syndrome” coming from an 80-year-old Fauci writing about himself.
MAHER: “Have you read some of the shit in Fauci’s diary?”… pic.twitter.com/lIUmKjG54W
READ MORE: Bill Maher Demolishes Fauci With Just How 'Embarrassing' the Release of His Diary Is
Bill Maher Makes His Audience Gasp Simply by Reading the DSA Platform Out Loud
Maher noted how "energized" Fauci appeared to be from the embrace of "one particular cultural tribe."
Bill Maher ends his show with a brutal minute-long takedown of Anthony Fauci and the liberal elites who turned him into a self-aggrandizing celebrity.
— Overton (@overton_news) August 8, 2026
The last line of the entire thing was pure cinema.
His audience burst out into a massive applause the moment they heard it.… pic.twitter.com/ivG1mRYGZW
“None of that is Trump. That’s all Fauci. Writing to himself…at 80," Maher declared. “Talk about main character syndrome!”
Maher also took out the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), mocking a convention picture of them wearing masks...in July 2026.
MAHER: “I showed this picture last week…”
— Overton (@overton_news) August 8, 2026
[Photo of people in masks]
“That’s a Democratic Socialist meeting in Colorado…LAST MONTH!”
“Now, that’s extreme, but it’s the direction that that half of the country tends toward.”
“David Leonhardt studied this issue and wrote of… pic.twitter.com/5NxMwg1d7E
MAHER: “I showed this picture last week…”
[Photo of people in masks]
“That’s a Democratic Socialist meeting in Colorado…LAST MONTH!”
“Now, that’s extreme, but it’s the direction that that half of the country tends toward.”
“David Leonhardt studied this issue and wrote of Democrats during the pandemic; ‘organizing their lives around COVID is core to their identity as progressives.’”
“And that is the place where I have a problem with the hero worship of Anthony Fauci.”
“Because it seems fame is a drug with a 100% addiction rate.”
Then he took down the socialist candidates who ran away from their prior, problematic comments, speaking for everyone when he said he didn't believe them, and they should stop the denial.
Bill Maher calls out the Democrat Socialists trying to backtrack after he roasted them for being communists during his monologue last week.
— Overton (@overton_news) August 8, 2026
Maher says they’re not “flip flopping.”
They’re lying.
And he told them to own what they actually believe.
MAHER: “I don’t believe any… pic.twitter.com/4ocbETIQcn
Bottom line? They can't get away from their prior wild comments or their present unhinged platform.
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This was a very funny takedown of the Democrats' candidate for governor in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong.
🚨 WHOAH! Bill Maher SLAMS
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zany Democrat Francesca Hong, the Grinch of all holidays, over her view that Valentine’s Day ‘brings out the worst of humanity’, that Thanksgiving should be canceled. Even July 4th is not on her calendar because she ‘doesn’t like fireworks’
MAHER:… pic.twitter.com/ORkBRnslZi
I think she's been so exposed at this point, it's going to be hard for anyone in Wisconsin to feel like they can vote for her.