Bill Maher Says Hollywood Hurting Democratic Party: “Just Shut the F*** Up”

Bill Maher is blaming Hollywood — again — for the faltering Democratic Party, telling California’s new daily newspaper in an interview centered on the current political climate that it’s time for Tinseltown’s politically outspoken elite to “shut the fuck up.”

Maher, who celebrated his 70th birthday last week, has been a party-agnostic political comic and agitator for decades. He hosted HBO’s late-night, half-hour political talk show Politically Incorrect from 1993 to 2002 and the cable channel’s political panel show, Real Time with Bill Maher, from 2003. As a resident of Beverly Hills who frequently brings actors, filmmakers and other key industry players onto his show, the comic has a front-row seat to Hollywood’s happenings and says it’s time for celebrities to step back if they want Democrats to oust Republicans.

“Hollywood [is] sort of the epicenter of the woke left. I don’t think they’re doing the Democratic Party any favors,…