Louis C.K. will get a warm welcome back into mainstream culture on Friday night when he sits down for a one-on-one interview on Real Time with Bill Maher—his first TV appearance in more than eight years after he was exposed as a sexual predator.

HBO announced the booking on Thursday, which comes just as C.K. is returning from his gig as one of the headliners at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. Comedians including Marc Maron and David Cross have strongly criticized anyone who would take money from the Saudi government as complicit in that regime’s human rights abuses.

C.K. became the face of both the #MeToo movement and “cancel culture” when he was accused by five different women in Oct. 2017 of masturbating in front of them against their will.

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