Bill Maher Refused to Stop Smoking Pot Around Sober Steve-O
Jackass star Steve-O is coming up on 16 years of sobriety, but not everyone is willing to accommodate him as he abstains—one such person, allegedly, is Bill Maher.
In a recent episode from Steve-O’s podcast Wild Ride!, he said Maher’s team reached out to invite him onto Maher’s podcast Club Random, where Maher interviews people while smoking marijuana. Talking to entrepreneur and conservative commentator Patrick Bet-David, who had himself just appeared on Club Random, Steve-O described what happened when he tried to ask Maher to put the bud down so they could do the show together.
“I’m a clean and sober guy, approaching 16 years,” Steve-O said. “The Bill Maher podcast, which I saw you on, reached out and they—his thing is he smokes pot the whole time while he interviews people. And I said ‘Hey, I’d happily go on there but could you, while I’m on, out of respect for my sobriety, could he refrain from smoking pot?” he continued. “He said no, that’s a dealbreaker.”