Hearing rumors that CNN wanted to hire a comedian to liven up the ratings was the funniest CNN thing we've heard since Brian Stelter said he likes girls. Then Bill Maher was given a show on CNN, and it stopped being funny.

Honestly? In Maher's defense, it's a pretty sweet hustle. After his show Real Time, he records an "overtime" show for YouTube. CNN is going to take it and air it on their failing news-content network. Maher does no extra work but gets an extra bag of money. Sweet deal.

The rub is that while Maher is reliably liberal, he's not leftist. Maher has an occasional opinion that goes against accepted leftist thought. And since those occasional anti-leftist thoughts may now be on cable news, hardo leftists are freaking out. Like former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur, who got fired over a decade ago and still can't deal. Please note that while Cenk has a blue checkmark, it's a legacy verified account and Cenk may or may not be notable.

Mehdi Hasan, an MSNBC douche who still has a job there, also has sand in his vagina over Maher getting the CNN gig.

And Keith Olbermann just hopes someone pays attention to him.

How long Bill Maher lasts on CNN, or if he even makes it to February 3rd, is anyone's guess. CNN is so desperate for ratings, the network will no doubt try to keep Maher on the air for the Neislen rating version of outrage clicks. But at the end of the day, Bill Maher still has an occasional opinion that is contrary to the far left and they won't let that be allowed on network TV for long.

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