Bill Maher To Letterman: Elisabeth Hasselbeck 'Traumatized' Me, But I Like Her (VIDEO)

Bill Maher reacted to his awkward "View" appearance on Tuesday when he appeared on "Late Night With David Letterman."

Maher was on "The View" promoting his new book when Hasselbeck turned his segment into a full-on confrontation for what she found to be an insensitive joke he made about her in February 2011.

Letterman asked Maher what had happened, and Maher said that Hasselbeck had "a bug up her ass." He also jokingly said that he was "traumatized," "abused," and felt "like a teenage boy at Penn State." (Too soon?)

The upside of the confrontation, according to Maher, was that it led to an overwhelmingly supportive response from his Twitter followers who he said "usually hate him."

Maher defended his initial joke that upset Hasselbeck while speaking to Letterman and said that he was "only kidding." Maher then somewhat surprisingly added that he really "does like her a lot," and that they have a relationship where they "play like they hate each other" on television.

Letterman likened their relationship to "big time wrestling." Maher agreed and said, "it makes the sex hotter."

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• Elisabeth Hasselbeck Confronts Bill Maher

• Michelle Malkin Spars With Joy, Whoopi

• Elisabeth Tears Up During Debate Over N-Word

• Elisabeth, Michael Moore Argue About Osama Bin Laden

• Co-hosts Debate Abortion

• Elisabeth Confronts Kathy Griffin

• Whoopi Spars With Donald Trump Over Obama

• Whoopi, Barbara Confront Glenn Beck

Comments

[cpsummer2457]

09:48 AM on 11/20/2011

I love the view but I can't stand Elisabeth, she is a loud mouth know it all who loves the sound of her own voice so much that she cuts everyone else off and it’s because of that I don’t watch it as much as I like.

[OliveskinnedGirl]

12:00 AM on 11/20/2011

The article is wrong. Lara Logan was detained on February 3rd, the joke
was told on February 4th referencing that incident. On February 15th, it
was reported that she was assaulted and raped on February 11th. Even if
it wasn't the best joke, it still was not insinuating that Hasselbeck
should be assaulted and raped. That was a leap that she made because she
didn't like being the butt of a joke. Bill Maher has offended me as a
woman before, so I'm not defending him blindly. The truth is it really
was a pretty harmless joke! She really takes herself way to seriously, and BTW didn't she slam Erin Andrews last year about the way she dressed on DWTS? EH is no champion for womens rights just more of the same from a rightwing woman they can dish it out but they can't take it!!

[jeffhintx]

09:07 PM on 11/19/2011

It makes the sex hotter???
Dayumm Bill, she couldn't resist you huh?

[motoGpifupleez]

07:40 PM on 11/19/2011

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is just pulling out the tried and true ploy of the RightWinger:

Looking for a pity party through what they think is their "martyrdom".

[Estreet1964]

09:53 AM on 11/19/2011

Bill really should be ashamed of himself. Lizzy is such a lightweight. For Bill Maher to go after her is like going after a mosquito with a bazooka. She should let a homeless family move into the unused space in her cranium.

[TurtleDawn]

09:29 AM on 11/19/2011

Ugh."Kathy Vs Elizabeth" is clip from someone who recorded the show using a camera. smh. So sad.

[Classicsouth]

02:05 AM on 11/19/2011

Elizabeth should be on FOX. Her high pitch and machine gun vocals would go much better over at FOX NEWS.

[winstonian23]

08:37 PM on 11/18/2011

Bill Maher is proof positive that if you want to make a career out of telling classless jokes and being perpetually unfunny, it IS possible!

[chapmanst]

09:58 PM on 11/18/2011

don't be such a hater Bill Maher is the best. You just acan't take a joke. I bleieve you really don't like him because he cmes too close to the trith for you.

[Uncle Bill]

10:50 PM on 11/18/2011

You are confusing Bill Maher with Herman Cain.  Maher is intentionally hilarious while Cain is unintentionally hilarious.

[vmax4ya]

06:24 PM on 11/18/2011

I only wish Hasselbeck would go on with Jon Stewart ! would that be fun ??

[bryanzth]

06:58 PM on 11/18/2011

I would laugh, and Jon Stewart would be thankful. BZ.

[socialtheory]

08:06 AM on 11/19/2011

(just from this past week) Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee, Astronaut Mark Kelly, Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese and Elisabeth Hasselback?!? One of these guests just seem out of place. It'll never happen. TDS has too much prestige to book bit players from morning shows. I do admit, it would be fun seeing Jon eviscerate the former survivor contestant though.

[92102]

05:27 PM on 11/18/2011

Its sad that so few blonde cons have a sense of humor. They are always outraged about something. In addition to Lizzy Hasselbeck just check out Megyn Kelley or Gretchen Carlson on FOX. Someone should tell these women that a smile is much more attractive then a look of shreaking panic.

[scottymac11]

06:20 PM on 11/18/2011

They are Faux blondes. They just don't get the jokes.

[proudtohaveserved]

07:58 PM on 11/18/2011

SCOTT "FAKE"

[ethelmertzrules]

06:26 PM on 11/18/2011

Look at the role in life the cons expect them to play. I'd be shrieking too.

[IndepBob]

03:35 PM on 11/18/2011

Wow . . . Maher seems to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, and he was only on that show for a few minutes. The dark force is strong in the mindless blond . . . .

[sodisenchanted]

03:00 PM on 11/18/2011

Elizabeth Hasselbeck is a thin skinned little twit. If she was a proper conservative woman she would be at home cooking for her kids and husband.

[winstonian23]

08:35 PM on 11/18/2011

Wow. You have a really twisted view of conservatism. Who taught you that?

[Pogo Bock]

11:36 PM on 11/19/2011

Um...conservatives?

[sodisenchanted]

06:46 AM on 11/20/2011

My family.

[glenya7121]

02:58 PM on 11/18/2011

Doesn't Letterman's intelligence stay in the back rooms of his studio.....with the many girlfriends that worked for and with him? .

[Gurinder Dhillon]

02:27 PM on 11/18/2011

People always say liberals can't take a joke but anytime Bill Maher starts doing his bit you see conservatives shedding tears into their bibles dabbing at the corners of their eyes with a corner of the flag.

[ethelmertzrules]

06:27 PM on 11/18/2011

Great micro bio!

[jimtodd]

12:33 PM on 11/18/2011

Hasselbeck must feel like a pinata on that show. Every time I see a clip she is on the far end of the sofa with her arms folded while everyone else is having a good time. Probably it is that she, like other conservatives, have a hard time with reality.

[IndepBob]

03:35 PM on 11/18/2011

Come the rapture and all you sarcastic atheists will regret your harsh treatment of Calvary Barbie . . .

[scottymac11]

06:22 PM on 11/18/2011

So says the sheppard...........So says the flock!

[ethelmertzrules]

06:28 PM on 11/18/2011

I can't wait!