Comedian Bill Maher criticized the Primetime Emmy Awards for not mentioning Charlie Kirk's assassination during the event, which was held four days after the conservative activist was fatally shot. On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was killed at an event at Utah Valley University. Meanwhile, the Emmy Awards were held in Los Angeles on September 14, 2025.In a September 19, 2025, episode of his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher called out the awards ceremony and its attendees for not talking about Charlie Kirk's assassination despite mentioning other political events.“At the Emmys, would it have killed someone to get up there, since they all want to talk about their politics. Would it have killed someone to get up there, not give a speech about how much they like Charlie Kirk, just to say, 'We had a political assassination this week and that’s wrong,'" he said.Maher suggested that people would have been "booed off stage" if they mentioned Charlie Kirk at the Emmys, as he was "on the wrong team." He further claimed that the situation would have been different if a left-wing person had been assassinated."They would have been booed off the stage because he was on the wrong team. So you’re not even allowed to say that. Could you imagine if a left-wing person was assassinated that week? The whole show would have been about that.”Bill Maher weighed in on Charlie Kirk's assassination and Jimmy Kimmel's suspensionCharlie Kirk previously appeared on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast in April 2025. In the episode, the two debated several topics such as politics, faith, and public safety. Following Charlie Kirk's assassination, Bill Maher has spoken about the political activist on various occasions, mostly on his HBO show and Club Random podcast.On September 12, 2025, he discussed the assassination on Real Time with Bill Maher with guests Ben Shapiro and Tim Alberta. According to Variety, Maher began his monologue by saying that it was a "very ugly week in America" due to the violence. Elsewhere in the episode, he reflected on the ongoing debate between the left and the right on social media, saying:“The governor of the state said, ‘Social media is a cancer,’ which I think is true. When you read some of the comments from people, they really are in such a bubble that they don’t understand that it’s happening on both sides."He continued:"The only way this starts to get better is if both sides admit, ‘OK, let’s not have this debate about who started it. Let’s not debate about who’s worse because, plainly, both sides do it now.’ And the right has done it too. A lot.”During the September 15 episode of his Club Random podcast with guest Billy Corgan, Maher admitted that he couldn't stop thinking about Charlie Kirk's shooting. According to The New York Post, the comedian described himself as an "old-school liberal" and called out people for celebrating Kirk's death on social media, saying, "You’re what’s wrong with this country."Exploring Bill Maher's comments regarding the Jimmy Kimmel controversyDuring the most recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian also addressed Jimmy Kimmel's remarks about Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, which led to ABC indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live!Kimmel was criticized for accusing MAGA of "desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it” during his monologue on the September 15 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!While Maher said he disagreed with Kimmel's remarks, he added that the talk show host “shouldn’t lose his job for it.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Maher defended Kimmel following his suspension and revisited his own controversy with ABC.“It was 24 years to the day that I made comments on ABC that got me canceled from that network, and Jimmy Kimmel took my slot at Politically Incorrect. Oh yes, I got canceled before cancel even had a culture. This s**t ain’t new. It’s worse, we’ll get to that, but you know, ABC, they are steady. ABC stands for ‘Always Be Caving.' Jimmy, pal, I am with you, I support you, and on the bright side, you don’t have to pretend anymore that you like Disneyland,” Maher said.For context, Maher's ABC show, Politically Incorrect, was canceled following his comments about the 9/11 attacks in 2001. He faced backlash for referring to the hijackers as "warriors" and calling America "the cowards" for "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." In the following months, the network announced a new late-night show with Kimmel scheduled to air in the same timeslot.Jimmy Kimmel has yet to release an official statement addressing the suspension at the time of this writing.