‘Why Am I F*cking Listening to You?’ Bill Burr Roasts Bill Maher Over ‘Very Simple Solution’ for the Middle East

Comedian Bill Burr mocked Bill Maher on the latter’s own podcast on Sunday, telling him he does not know as much as he thinks he does.

On Sunday’s Club Random, Maher criticized college students and “cancel culture,” which Burr declared “over” and said that “no one cares anymore.”

Eventually, Maher steered the conversation toward the recent protests on college campuses regarding Israel’s war in Gaza. Burr told the host that he sides with the students, prompting Maher to say that position ignores the “hard-nosed decisions” that should be made after an event such as the Oct. 7th terrorist attacks in Israel. The guest responded by saying Maher is posing as an expert in world politics and likened him to a fantasy football team owner who thinks he could be the general manager in the NFL.

In the following exchange, Burr eventually asks Maher, “Why am I fucking listening to you like you’ve done something?”:

MAHER: They are in with the terrorists

BURR: They were for the Palestinians.

MAHER: Well, it’s sort of the same cause. Why? Are you?

BURR: I’m on the side of the kids.

MAHER: Yeah, that’s easy to say. You know, no one wants to see kids dead.

BURR: That was very brave of you to say that.

MAHER: No, I’m the one who’s actually brave on this.

BURR: Oh, pat yourself on the back.

MAHER: It’s easy to say, “I’m for the kids.”Who’s not for the kids? It comes down to real hard-nosed decisions. Like, a country–

BURR: Oh, stop talking like you’re a general

MAHER: A country got attacked. Israel got attacked.

BURR: I’m not saying they didn’t have a right to go– I’m just sitting there going, like, how do I look at what.

MAHER: They’re the only country in the world that, they get attacked, and then as soon as they counterattack, it’s like, well, we gotta stop this shit now. “Don’t attack them” is a very simple solution to all this problem in the Middle East. Stop attacking Israel.

BURR: You just solved it.

MAHER: I did.

BURR: That’s fantastic. Let’s go to Russia and the Ukraine. How do you solve that one, Bill? Let me hear your hard-nosed decision about that. Well, let me ask you a question. How is war still legal with all this shit that’s been canceled? Why is that still fucking legal?

MAHER: Would you like a real answer to that? Because for something to be illegal, you have to have the capacity to enforce it. And you can’t enforce against war, or else you have to go to war with the country that’s going to war. And we don’t want to go to war with Russia over Ukraine. What would be the sense of making it illegal? Oh, that’s really going to stop Putin. No, to stop people from going to war, you have to also put boots on–

BURR: Sit down and talk it out? Why can’t Putin do a podcast with the head guy? Like you just solved the Middle East on a podcast. Why can’t they solve what they’re doing on a podcast?

MAHER: This is not why this is not your thing. This is my thing.

BURR: It’s not your thing.

MAHER: It is my thing.

BURR: It isn’t your thing. It isn’t. You’re like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks he’s a fucking GM. That’s exactly what it is. Like, why am I fucking listening to you like you like you’ve done something? What have you done in Washington? Nothing.

Watch above via Club Random.