Bill Maher Takes Issue With JD Vance’s Comments On Childless People On ‘Real Time’

Last night on HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host dedicated his “New Rules” segment to critiquing Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance‘s comments on childless people.

Maher, who’s known for being proudly unwed with no kids, says Vance could not be more wrong about people with no children being “deranged” and “psychotic.”

He joked, “I was barren before it was cool,” referencing how not having kids has become a more popular lifestyle choice.

The HBO host called Vance “Donald Trump’s new piss boy” and joked that the VP candidate “has now reopened the question at the very foundation of the Republican Party, B*tch, why aren’t you pregnant?”

“Really? So the biggest threat to America now is not a nuclear armed Iran or $35 trillion in debt or another leaky lab in China. It’s cat ladies,” Maher said. “Vance says the country is being run by them. In 2020 he said not having kids makes people ‘more sociopathic and less mentally stable,’ and the people who are ‘most deranged and most psychotic’ are people who don’t have kids.”

“Have you met your running mate?” Maher asked. “He’s got five kids, and he’s out of his f***ing mind.”

He concluded his rant by saying: “And again, it’s 2024 and you’re still saying that people who don’t marry and raise kids are inferior weirdos. Thanks, Phyllis Schlafly, let me check my beeper to see if 1993 called.”

Maher then examined some clips from his old ABC series Politically Incorrect from the 90s, using them as a reference point for how the general opinion on childless lifestyles has changed since then.

He then circled back to Vance. “In 2021, JD Vance said, and I quote, ‘let’s give votes to all children in this country. When you go to the polls as a parent, you should have more power than people who don’t have kids.’ No your life choices are not more valid or worthy than mine. I think people who don’t smoke weed are missing out. But that doesn’t mean Woody Harrelson gets to vote twice.”

Maher took that as an opportunity to promote the cannabis store he owns with Harrelson.

Towards the end of the segment, which you can watch above, Maher played another clip from Politically Incorrect in which he joked that he would have a renewal of vows ceremony with himself.

He then wrapped up his “New Rules” segment by doing just that.

You can watch a clip of Maher’s New Rule segment from last night’s episode above and catch new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher on Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on HBO or streaming on Max.