Bill Maher was met with dead silence after an attempt at a joke on “The View” on Tuesday morning. The moment was so tense, he turned to the audience to inform them he was making a joke.
The moment came during the second segment of his appearance, in support of his new book “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” as host Sunny Hostin called him out for using the word “woke,” and saying it’s “why Trump could get reelected.” Hostin was quick to argue that the word has been coopted by right wingers, and “weaponized and bastardized” in the process.