Comedian Bill Maher drew awkward silence followed by groans on his show when he made a joke about Dick Cheney just day just days after the former vice president’s death.

The comedian started his latest “Real Time with Bill Maher” HBO show by making a joke about defeated Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, riffing that the perennial candidate and Guardian Angels founder who lost to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo was dogged by accusations of “we thought you were dead.”

Then Maher pivoted to talking about Cheney, who died Monday at 84 after serving as George W. Bush’s VP, secretary of defense, White House chief of staff, and a member of the US House of Representatives. “Speaking of we didn’t know you were dead, Dick Cheney died,” Maher snarked.

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