Abdul El-Sayed Wants to See Bill Maher 'Get His A-- Whooped' on His Show

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed stated during a recent interview that he would be willing to appear on Bill Maher’s show, not just to engage with the comedian's audience, but to see Maher’s “a— whooped” by a Muslim. El-Sayed made the remarks during an interview with Chuck Todd on the "Noosphere" podcast.

El-Sayed criticized Maher for what he described as “terrible” beliefs, particularly those concerning Islam. "You know how many terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me?" El-Sayed questioned. "Terrible, awful things. Of course, he’s still got his show on Comedy Central, and everybody seems to be perfectly okay going on that show despite the fact that he said deeply terrible things."

He added, "But you know who else would go on that show? I would go on that show. You know why? A: I wanna give people the image of watching him get his a— whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do. And I’d also go on the show because I want to convince the people who watch his show, right, that a lot of the things that he says, just not viable."

Maher responded to El-Sayed's comments on his own show, "Real Time," on Friday, extending an invitation to the candidate. "It’s not people like you, I would love to have you on, sir, by the way," Maher said. "And I hope we can make that happen. I talk about Islam. It’s never personal, and it’s never about race. It’s about ideas. Religion is an opinion. That’s all religion is: a group of thoughts that form an opinion of something. I have different views on what, you know, how women should be treated and things like that, that we will discuss. I hope you will accept our invitation."

This exchange follows El-Sayed's history of using combative language against his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers. In a previous instance, El-Sayed challenged Rogers to a game of tackle football. "Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you ‘hold me accountable’ on a football field instead," El-Sayed wrote on X. "Tackle, no pads like we used to play when we were kids. I’d be happy to show you [how] much I love football."

Rogers dismissed the football challenge, telling Fox News that it was “unserious” and detracted from important election issues. "I think that is so unserious. You think about what the problems are here. People are facing this affordability [sic] credit. He wants to thump his chest and show how macho he is, and he spends a lot of time talking about high school. This is not about high school," Rogers said.