Bill Maher thinks it’s not safe for him to do stand-up comedy anymore.

Maher told comedian Patton Oswalt on his Club Random podcast Monday that it was “a great choice” to stop touring because, “I don’t want to be out there in this country, in this political atmosphere. I could get shot by the left or the right.” Maher has been consistently called out for his contrarian takes over the years. “It’s a good time to not be out there,” he added, though he admitted there are more, less shocking reasons: “I just got tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me.”

The low ticket sales are not because he’s not as funny as he thinks he is, Maher argued. It’s “because I’m on TV every week. So, and not that I didn’t sell a lot of tickets and do great theaters—b

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