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Curb your criticism?
Bill Maher chastised Larry David after the “Seinfeld” creator invoked Hitler in a New York Times op-ed mocking his friend for dining with Donald Trump last month.
Speaking on Thursday’s episode of Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” podcast, the 69-year-old “Real Time with Bill Maher” host said David’s essay — titled “My Dinner With Adolf” — was “kind of insulting to six million dead Jews.”
When Morgan, 60, asked whether he and David, 77, are friends, Maher responded, “Oh, yes, of course. I mean, this wasn’t, you know, my favorite moment of our friendship.”
The longtime Trump critic then offered his take on David’s essay, published Tuesday.
“Look, I don’t want to get in — too much into that, but I think the minute you play the Hitler card. You’ve lost the argument,” he said.
“And also, I must say, you know, come on, man. Hitler, Nazis — nobody has been harder about and more prescient, I might say, about Donald Trump than me. I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is,” the comedian continued.
“Just the fact that I met him in person didn’t change that. And the fact I reported honestly is not a sin either,” he added, referring to his monologue about dining with Trump on his HBO show.
“To use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher argued.
“That should kind of be in its own place in history. And I know people can say, well, we’re just comparing it in this way. Well, it’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it,” he insisted.
“It’s just, look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler [has] really kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the GOAT of evil and we’re just gonna have to, I think, leave it like that.”
The former “Politically Incorrect” host went on, “Did I think that was appropriate? No.” Maher then said that people have the right to disagree, but Morgan cut him off when he asked whether he knew David was writing the letter.
“Of course not,” Maher replied, sharing that he hasn’t spoken with the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator since the Times published the essay.
“And that’s OK,” he said.
Maher later added, “I don’t want to make this constantly personal with me and Larry. I mean, we might be friends again. I can be, I mean, I can take a shot and I also can absolutely take it when people disagree with me. That’s not exactly the way I would have done it.
“But, you know, again. The irony, let’s go back to what my original thing was. There’s gotta be a better way than hurling insults and not talking to people. So, you know, if I could talk to Trump, I could talk to Larry David, too.”
Though David’s essay did not mention Maher by name, the Times’ deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy made the connection clear in a companion piece while also writing, “Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler. It is about seeing people for who they really are and not losing sight of that.”
Maher earned scorn from many Democrats — including famed political operative and pundit James Carville — for meeting with Trump.
In his monologue on “Real Time” defending the White House visit, Maher insisted he “didn’t go MAGA” but noted policy areas where he found common ground with Trump, such as relocating Israel’s embassy to Jerusalem and limiting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
“The guy I met is not the person who the night before the dinner s—t tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how he thought this was a bad idea and what a deranged asshole I was,” Maher told his viewers. “I read it and thought, ‘Oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house.’ But when I got there, that guy wasn’t living there.”
He said, “[A] crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f–ked up. It’s just not as f–ked up as I thought it was.”