Twitter went off on the comedian and talk show host for using the racial slur.
Bill Maher has built a career teetering the line of racial politics and comedy, but on Friday he may have seriously stepped over it.
On Friday’s Real Time Maher referred to himself as a “house n-word while interviewing Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska. The two were talking about adults dressing in Halloween costumes and Maher asked the Senator if they did that in Nebraska.