Bill Maher trades political blows with Dave Chappelle in a stand-up clash

Maher was one of many critics of The Chappelle Show star and other comics, including Pete Davidson, Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Jimmy Carr and Louis CK, who performed at the festival and highlighted the country’s lack of freedom of expression, its record of human rights abuses and its role in it 9/11.

On the October 3 episode of his HBO gabfest, Real timeMaher, 69, told his guest CK: “Dave Chappelle … was in the press today and said you can speak more freely about [there] than in America. It’s not true.”

“I don’t know if that’s true,” CK replied.

Maher responded, “Oh, that’s not true,” then challenged Chappelle to tell a joke about the Islamic prophet Muhammad to find out how free speech in Saudi Arabia really is.

Chappelle, 52, fired back at Maher’s condemnation in a profanity-laced rant about his new Netflix stand-up special.