Bill Maher Says Paying for Gas This Week ‘Felt Like I Was Taking it Up The A**’

Comic and pundit Bill Maher addressed rising gas prices by saying that filling up at the pump this week “felt like I was taking it up the ass.”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host devoted part of his “New Rules” monologue to rising gas prices, which he blamed on the war in Ukraine — which was the topic of the remainder of the opener:

Now that things are opening up, I was out with a bunch of people there, they said, let’s go someplace expensive. So I took them to a Chevron station.

That’s the thing we. We can finally leave the house and we can’t afford to drive anywhere.

No, I was putting the nozzle in my car the other day, felt like I was taking it up the ass. I mean, it was. There’s, there is a, there is a gas station in Mendocino County here in California, charging $8.45 for a gallon of gasoline. And for that money, they should check your oil and your prostate. That’s…

And of course, part of it is because we cut off the oil from Russia, which we had to do because of that terrible war in Ukraine. Well, as people say, we are all Ukrainians now. And by that, I mean, we’re also armed to the teeth and our English ain’t too good. But but…

Americans, when they go all in on something like now, everything Russian is bad, everything. I mean, we are boycotting everything, Russian vodka, pour that shit down the drain. Wouldn’t it be better if we used it up? I don’t know. The crew. Yeah. You know, Russian dressing. Can’t have that. Don’t even think about playing that game where you take a revolver and put one bullet in it. And no, that’s. It’s. Don’t call it that. If you’re going to do it, it’s called a night out with Nicolas Cage.

These are scary times, because, you know, the more we put Putin in the corner, God knows what he’ll do. I mean, what freaks me out is every time I see a picture of Vladimir Putin, he’s sitting by himself at the end of a ridiculously long table, all by himself. He’s like a cross between Ivan the Terrible and Howie Mandel. We don’t want to start World War 3, right? I mean, we’re caught in the middle here. We’re trying to help Ukraine, but do it, you know, from the sidelines, we’re we’re like the gay best friend in a romantic comedy. That’s America.

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