Bill Maher has been criticised heavily for this one.
During a piece on Zayn Malik’s decision to quit One Direction, US chat show host Bill Maher compared the singer to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of orchestrating the Boston Marathon bombing with his brother in April 2013.
Cue nervous audience laughter.
https://youtu.be/sODOiLrzHqE
It hasn’t gone down well. Not well at all.
https://twitter.com/x77zjm/status/584678095187120129
Cue the petition…
For Bill Maher to apologise for racist joke about Zayn https://t.co/8F4XQHXxen
— Rebecca (@nightskylwt) April 5, 2015
Does Bill not know about Zayn’s services to humanity?
Dear Bill Maher, you better check your facts before embarrassing yourself on television #RespectForZayn pic.twitter.com/zlLuafsrus
— thv⁷ (@vsingularitae) April 5, 2015
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