Bill Maher bashed the body that oversees the Golden Globes for not bestowing its inaugural Best Podcast award on Joe Rogan.
Former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler's 'Good Hang with Amy Poehler' received the honor instead, leading Maher to lament the state of Hollywood on his Club Random Podcast Monday
'Did you see that there's a podcast category at the Globes?' Maher first asked guests David Spade and Dana Carvey, both of whom seemed unaware that the award even existed. Like Poehler, they both rose to stardom on SNL.
'Did we get nominated?' Carvey jokingly asked - a reference to his Fly on the Wall podcast with fellow host Spade.
'They only nominated like the super woke stuff,' Maher, 69, shot back. Other podcasts on the ticket included Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, NPR's Up First, and SmartLess with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes.
'Yeah, I’m sure there were good shows, but it was glaring that Joe Rogan was not nominated,' Maher maintained.
He added of the Joe Rogan Experience, 'I mean, it is kind of popular.'
Carvey, 70, agreed, saying of Rogan, 'He's absolutely brilliant at what he does.'
Bill Marher accused bigwigs who run the Golden Globes of being 'out-of-touch' on his Club Random podcast Monday
Maher was irate that Joe Rogan was not even nominated for the ceremony's first 'Best Podcast' award last week
Maher, an outspoken progressive, mused: 'Maybe-, it just speaks to living in the Bluesky bubble', in reference to the liberal-leaning X alternative.
He urged members of The Golden Globe Foundation - the nonprofit that runs the Golden Globes - and other Hollywood bigwigs to 'get out of your f*cking bubble.'
'I want to be one of you, I am one of you, but you’re just so hard to defend because you’re just such... f*cking smug a**holes,' the HBO host maintained.
He called Los Angeles 'the epicenter of the problem.'
Carvey and Spade both seemed to agree.
Like his guests, Maher's podcast was also not nominated. Unlike Carvey and Spade, he attended the awards.
Other nominees included The Mel Robbins Podcast and Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy, leaving Rogan's long-form interview program in the lurch.
Started in 2009, the show covers topics including science, comedy, current affairs and philosophy.
Amy Poehler's 'Good Hang with Amy Poehler' received the honor instead. The inaugural trophy was presented by Snoop Dogg on January 11
Maher made the remarks to guests David Spade and David Carvey, who appeared unaware the award even existed
It draws an estimated eight million viewers on Apple and even more on Spotify each month. Exact counts for Good Hang aren't public. The show started early last year.
Poehler told onlookers while accepting her award: 'I have great respect for this form.'
Maher, meanwhile, has ramped up his criticism of the Democratic Party over the past year after Joe Biden's disastrous single term and the election debacle that followed.
Maher referenced this during his conversation with Carvey and Spade, 61, saying, 'I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You're just why she lost,' referring to replacement Kamala Harris.
'You can't have movie stars and politicians that have hundreds of millions of dollars lecturing you. It's just the elitist thing that came out of all that,' Carvey said.
Rogan, conversely, has soured on the current administration in recent months, after endorsing Donald Trump in October.
He has slammed the administration's tariffs on Canada as 'ridiculous' and called its deportation policies 'horrific.'
The clashes began in March, when Rogan used his podcast to rant about Trump imposing tariffs on Canada and his desire to make Canada the 51st state.
