Bill Maher told guest Patton Oswalt on the latest episode of the “Club Random” podcast that he is no longer interested in hitting the road for stand-up comedy shows given the country’s intense political divide. The often-outspoken Maher regularly stirs up backlash from both sides of the political aisle on his HBO talk show “ Real Time .”

“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 said (via The Daily Beast ). “It’s a good time to not be out there.”

Maher also acknowledged that he is “tired of the travel” and “tired of being twice as funny as people who were selling twice as many tickets as me.” He noted that “because I’m on TV every week” it gives fans less incentive to buy tickets to his stand-up s

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