Talk show host, comedian, actor, and political commentator Bill Maher walked the red carpet of the 83rd Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton, California, on Sunday night.One of the reporters asked him about the likes of Wanda Sykes and Mark Ruffalo wearing “Be Good” anti-ICE pins to the ceremony and whether the Golden Globes were an ideal platform for such political activism.Bill Maher, 69, responded with a chuckle and said:“Come on, we’re here for show business today. Uhh, you know, it was a terrible thing that happened, and it shouldn’t have happened. And, if they didn’t act like such thugs, it wouldn’t have had to happen. But I don’t need to wear a pin about it.”For those unaware, the “Be Good” and “ICE Out” pins worn by Sykes, Ruffalo, Jean Smart, and Natasha Lyonne were dedicated to the memory of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7, as part of the ongoing raids summoned by the Trump administration.Wanda Sykes called out Bill Maher on the Golden Globes stageVeteran actress, stand-up comedian, and writer Wanda Sykes led the #BeGood campaign from the front at this year’s Golden Globes by wearing the black and white pin on her shimmery grey pantsuit.As she walked the red carpet, she told Variety:“Of course, this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it’s really sad. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it’s just awful what they’re doing to people.”Wanda Sykes, 61, later presented the Best Stand-up Comedy on Television Award and mocked one of the nominees, Bill Maher. She said:“Bill Maher, you give us so much, but I would love a little less. Just try less.”The award was later bagged by English comedian Ricky Gervais for his December 2025 special, Mortality.Despite getting snubbed at the Golden Globes for his latest comedy special, Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?, Maher is doing well on the professional front as his HBO late-night political talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher, has been renewed for two more seasons through 2028.In fact, the program, which has been running since 2003, is slated to premiere its 24th season on January 23. Bill is also the host of the video podcast, Club Random, which was launched in 2022.Maher has previously voiced his disdain for the ICE raids, both on his HBO show and podcast. For instance, in August 2025, he criticized Dr Phil, who appeared as a guest on his Real Time program.“Why are you going on these ICE raids? I don’t understand that. You’re a guy who, we know, for so many years who has been working to put families together. To bring families who are apart and heal them. And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families,” Bill stated.In the same episode, Maher condemned ICE officers for wearing masks to hide their faces from the masses.Three months later, during one of his podcast episodes, Maher, who’s a longtime and vocal critic of Donald Trump, called out the POTUS for the armed ICE operation against undocumented immigrants.Bill addressed his guest, Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, and said:“That’s one of the reasons the natives are restless on your side, even your people, because they voted for, ‘Let’s get the criminals out of the country.’ And what they got was, ‘Umm, no, let’s find people who’ve been working here for ten years and go to Home Depot and get them.’ We don’t like that.”When Lara defended herself by saying “we either have rules/ laws or we don’t,” and claimed that the current administration was “targeting the worst of the worst” who broke the law, Maher responded by saying that heavily armed ICE raids, especially “tackling people at their workplaces” weren’t the way to “handle” it.Bill Maher also drew a comparison between Trump and Obama. He claimed that the former President “deported a lot of people, too.” However, he didn’t do it by “being an a**hole… thug… masked… cruel.” However, the comedian agreed that people who do not belong to this country legally shouldn’t be harbored, but nor should they be punished, adding that the Trump administration, with its ICE raids, had taken things “too far.”