Comedians Bill Maher and Dana Carvey Target Celebrities’ Political Lectures

By Solange Reyner | Monday, 19 January 2026 02:43 PM EST

Comedians Bill Maher and Dana Carvey on Monday criticized celebrities and millionaires for lecturing ordinary Americans about politics.

“Celebrities just make it worse,” Maher stated during his “Club Random” podcast featuring comedians Carvey and David Spade. “They just make it worse when they speak and they’re almost always on one side of the political divide.”

“And that’s basically the side I vote for,” he continued. “As I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person; you’re just why [former Vice President Kamala Harris] lost.”

Maher added, “I could gather—and I think I will because it will be funny—just the incredibly stupid things that celebrities say about politics or finance.” He noted, “So if you’re the person out there going, ‘How could you live on $100 million a year? Vote Kamala Harris!’ It’s like, that’s game over.”

Carvey echoed the sentiment: “You can’t have rich movie stars and politicians lecturing you. It’s just the elitist thing that came out of all that—you know, the Democrats.” He added, “It wasn’t a positive thing; they’re not gonna do that in 2028. I’ll bet they’ll have real people.”

Following the 2024 presidential election, Maher criticized the Democratic Party for what he called its “anti-common-sense agenda.” During his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher in November 2024, he stated: “The reason I’m so mad at the Democrats is because as a voter, the issues that were important to me were democracy and the environment. And now, there’s no one to champion or defend either of them because you, with your aggressively anti-common-sense agenda and shiy exclusionary attitude, blew it.”

“You lost everything—House, Senate, White House, Supreme Court and left us completely unprotected and ready to be violated,” Maher added.

Last September, he also criticized Democrats for not showing up to debate on his podcast like Republicans do: “Thank you for being here. I always say that to my Republican friends.” He noted that both Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with potential presidential candidate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had declined his invites.

“I say it every week—I am going to say it every week: Stop asking me why the Clintons have never been on the show,” Maher concluded. “They’re invited.”