Reading NYT interview with Maher. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/magazine/bill-maher-trump-mark-twain-prize.html (Sorry, I know it's behind a paywall...)

This paragraph sums it up pretty well: "I enjoyed spending time with Maher. At the same time, I found him prickly, self-satisfied and mostly unwilling to afford good faith to his critics. He copped to the first charge while we reminisced about one of his favorite Democrats, the famously curmudgeonly congressman Barney Frank, who struck me as both easily irritable and surprisingly sweet when I profiled him nearly two decades ago.

“So what?” Maher said of the idea that Frank was prickly. “So am I.” Finally, a little self-awareness.