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    Veteran comedian Wayne Brady lashes out at Bill Maher for making jokes about Obama, saying, “He is racist”

    Tom Rob PughBy Tom Rob PughMay 8, 2026No Comments4 Mins Read
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    After Bill Maher made a joke years ago that compared him to former President Barack Obama, comedian Wayne Brady branded Maher racist.

    Instead of mocking Obama for being a “gangsta,” Maher joked in 2010 that he was “President Wayne Brady.”

    In an interview with Sarah Jones for her podcast America, Who Hurt You?, Brady talked about Dave Chappelle criticising Maher in his most recent comedy spectacular.

    In any case, whose line is it? The HBO anchor was called a racist by the actor.

    Dave Chappelle had to speak up lately. After Bill Maher made the joke, “I wish that President Obama was less Wayne Brady and more,” I told folks. I can’t remember whether gangster rapper or anything. How dare you try to define this monster as a white man?

    Brady also claimed to have seen Maher at the Playboy Mansion once “with two sisters on his arm,” accusing him of trying to hide the accusations by associating himself with black pals.

    “I don’t care that he’s racist; Bill Maher can say that I have all these black friends, dah, dah, dah,” Brady remarked.

    “This cat thinks that being close to him and having things you can use gives you the right to say whatever you want about other people, people whose shoes you never walk in,” he continued.

    Brady used to think Maher was hilarious and admirable, but in recent years, he has lost interest in his kind of humour.

    After Bill Maher made a joke years ago that compared him to former President Barack Obama, comedian Wayne Brady branded Maher racist.

    Instead of mocking Obama for being a “gangsta,” Maher joked in 2010 that he was “President Wayne Brady.”

    I no longer find him funny. He continued, “It’s vitriolic because it just encourages the asinine behaviours and reactions in those whose default setting is to be reductive of people.”

    In addition, Brady threatened to “gladly slap the s*** out of” Maher and made outrageous claims about the host’s preferences for women.

    Additionally, he asked Maher if he was interested in learning “how black Wayne Brady is.”

    He clarified, though, that he had only Maher’s own words to go on and that he doesn’t “know him as a person like that” or “hate Bill Maher.”

    “Accordingly, I don’t like you as a person because of the opinions you have, the things you’ve said, and the platform you have.

    As a comedian, Maher stated in a 2010 interview that when Obama was elected, “I thought that two years in that I’d be making jokes what a ‘gangsta’ he was.” You are aware.

    You know, he’s not President Wayne Brady. “I thought we were getting Suge Knight,” he continued, alluding to the former Death Row Records CEO who was imprisoned for voluntary manslaughter.

    Chappelle, who memorably parodied Brady on his Comedy Central show, became enraged about Maher’s critique of his Riyadh Comedy Festival performance.

    In an interview with Sarah Jones for her podcast America, Who Hurt You?, Brady talked about Dave Chappelle criticising Maher in his most recent comedy special, Where the Whose Line is it Anyway? The HBO anchor was called a racist by the actor.

    Chappelle, who memorably parodied Brady on his Comedy Central program, became enraged with Maher’s assessment of his Riyadh Comedy Festival performance.

    You know, and the well-known comedian Bill Maher? In his recent Netflix special, he declared, “I’ve known Bill since I was like 18 or 19 years old, and I’ve never said this publicly, but f*** that guy.”

    “His little smug cracker-a** commentary is so f***ing annoying.”

    Maher expressed conflicting opinions on the festival, calling it “a great idea,” while criticising Chappelle for claiming that it was “easier to talk” about contentious topics in Saudi Arabia than in the United States.

    “Yeah, I don’t know if that’s true,” said fellow comedian and cracking guest Louis CK.

    Maher said, “Oh, that’s not true,” and recommended that Chappelle make jokes against Islam to see if there would be any repercussions. “Dave, do your hunk on Muhammad.”

    During his stand-up show in Riyadh, Chappelle reportedly informed a crowd of 6,000 people, “Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get cancelled.” This was just one of several remarks he made about free speech.

    “I’m going to find out if that’s true, but I’m not sure.”

    Requests for comment from Maher have not yet received a response.

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