You could crack the tension with a knife as View co-host confronted Bill Maher on yesterday’s episode of her show about a joke he made earlier this year about her and CBS correspondent Lara Logan.
On the Feb. 4 episode of his HBO show, Real Time, Maher addressed the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square, saying, “New rule: now that Hosni Mubarak has released Lara Logan: he must put her intrepid hotness on a plane immediately. In exchange, we will send Elisabeth Hasselbeck.”
On Tuesday’s episode of The View, the former Survivor told Maher she was offended by the joke and that speaking for all women, “You can’t sit here right now and tell me I’m wrong for saying, ‘That wasn’t that funny.'”
“We do a comedy show for an audience that’s perhaps different than your audience,” Maher responded. “You are a public figure. It was not aimed at you personally, but when you are a public figure, you are out there and you’re fodder for comedians to make comments on.”
In an appearance on David Letterman, Maher said that Hasselbeck made him look good.
