{"id":2241824,"date":"2026-01-20T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2241824"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:28:15","slug":"bill-maher-tears-into-golden-globes-for-joe-rogan-podcast-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-maher-tears-into-golden-globes-for-joe-rogan-podcast-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher tears into Golden Globes for Joe Rogan podcast snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2Fbill-maher-slams-hollywood-joe-119264444.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bill Maher blasted the Golden Globes as \u201cf\u2013king smug a\u2013holes\u201d for snubbing mega podcaster Joe Rogan in its inaugural best podcast category, saying the nominees were all \u201csuper woke stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher made the comments while sitting down with comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade on Monday\u2019s episode of his \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Y63STeqAlE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Club Random<\/a>,\u201d where he appeared to criticize former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Amy Poehler\u2019s podcast, \u201cGood Hang with Amy Poehler,\u201d for landing a nomination while Rogan was left out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d is the<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcastcharts.byspotify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> top-ranked podcast on Spotify<\/a>, ranks ahead of Poehler\u2019s show on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts charts<\/a>, and sits third on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/charts.youtube.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Podcasts<\/a> \u2014 while Poehler\u2019s podcast is not ranked in the top 10.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bill Maher blasted the Golden Globes for snubbing mega podcaster Joe Rogan in its inaugural best podcast category, saying the nominees were all \u201csuper woke stuff.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Club Random w\/ Bill Maher<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDid you see that there\u2019s a podcast category at the Globes?\u201d Maher asked. \u201cThey only nominated like the super woke stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood Hang with Amy Poehler\u201d went on to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/11\/entertainment\/golden-globes-2026-live-updates\/\">win the first-ever 2026 Golden Globes for best podcast<\/a>, beating out \u201cArmchair Expert with Dax Shepard;\u201d Alex Cooper\u2019s \u201cCall Her Daddy;\u201d \u201cThe Mel Robbins Podcast;\u201d \u201cSmartLess,\u201d featuring Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Poehler\u2019s ex, Will Arnett; and NPR\u2019s \u201cUp First.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure there were good shows, but it was glaring that Joe Rogan was not nominated,\u201d the 69-year-old political satirist noted. \u201cI mean, it is kind of popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carvey agreed, hailing Rogan as \u201cabsolutely brilliant at what he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it just speaks to living in the Bluesky bubble,\u201d Maher said, referencing the liberal-leaning X alternative.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d tops Spotify, outranks Poehler\u2019s show on Apple Podcasts, and sits third on YouTube \u2014 while Poehler\u2019s podcast isn\u2019t in the top 10. <span class=\"credit\">PowerfulJRE\/Youtube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He then urged members of the Golden Globe Foundation and Hollywood elites to \u201cget out of your f\u2013king bubble,\u201d and stop being \u201cf\u2013king smug assholes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be one of you, I am one of you, but you\u2019re just so hard to defend,\u201d Maher said, adding that Los Angeles has become \u201cthe epicenter of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher attended the awards show after being nominated for his HBO stand-up comedy special, \u201cIs Anyone Else Seeing This?,\u201d marking his first awards nod in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to get nominated for everything, and then the wokeness came in, and then I was considered conservative, which was ridiculous,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was what I call soft canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Gervais ultimately won the best stand-up comedy on TV category.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Amy Poehler accepting the award for best podcast for \u201cGood Hang with Amy Poehler\u201d from presenter Snoop Dogg during the 83rd Golden Globes on Jan. 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo this is the first time in a while I\u2019ve been nominated for something, which I think shows a little bit that we are coming out of the wokeness \u2026 I take it as a victory that they were not able to ignore how good that special was,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>Carvey joked that he\u2019s a Bill Clinton-era liberal from the 1990s, a label he said would now get him branded a \u201cNazi.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Spade joked that it\u2019s now considered \u201cfar-right,\u201d quipping, \u201cYou\u2019re a white supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know, it\u2019s not one that the woke can watch and not throw up because I call their s\u2013t out. And the fact that people are laughing shows that it\u2019s funny,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you do stupid things, it\u2019s funny. And the left did a lot more stupid things in the last five to 10 years. And I\u2019m a comedian. I go where the gold is. And it\u2019s hitting the side of a barn to make fun of some of this s\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher also had previously laughed about virtue-signaling celebrities who wore pins at the Golden Globes referencing the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/12\/media\/bill-maher-laughs-at-celebs-wearing-renee-good-pins-at-golden-globes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just here for show business today,\u201d the comedian, 69, chuckled to a USA Today reporter on the red carpet who asked about celebs using the occasion of the award show to politically grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it was a terrible thing that happened, and it shouldn\u2019t have happened, and if they didn\u2019t act like such thugs, it wouldn\u2019t have happened. But I don\u2019t need to wear a pin about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher blasted the Golden Globes as \u201cf\u2013king smug a\u2013holes\u201d for snubbing mega podcaster Joe Rogan in its inaugural best podcast category, saying the nominees were all \u201csuper woke stuff.\u201d Maher made the comments while sitting down with comedians Dana Carvey and David Spade on Monday\u2019s episode of his \u201cClub Random,\u201d where he appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[348302,309127,362132,313250,21741,430379,33082,23522,404692],"class_list":["post-2241824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-amy-poehler","tag-bill-maher","tag-dana-carvey","tag-david-spade","tag-entertainment","tag-golden-globes-2026","tag-joe-rogan","tag-podcasts","tag-woke-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bill-Maher-tears-into-Golden-Globes-for-Joe-Rogan-podcast.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241826,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241824\/revisions\/2241826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}