Overview
- In a Club Random episode taped before the Jan. 11 ceremony, Maher said he expected to be snubbed because he "speaks freely" and that "this woke town" dislikes it.
- Maher lost his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television to Ricky Gervais' Mortality.
- Presenter Wanda Sykes roasted Maher onstage and accepted the award on Gervais' behalf while joking about both comedians.
- Maher claimed he has 33 Emmy nominations, while reporting cites higher counts from Television Academy records, and he has one Emmy win from 2014 as an executive producer of HBO's Vice.
- Coverage notes his remarks fit a long-running pattern of critiques of progressive cultural politics that he reiterated on the podcast.