“My message to the losers: losers look in the mirror,” Maher said during Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher’s typically laughing audience went completely silent as he said the quiet part out loud and advised Democrats to reflect on themselves.

Bill Maher sent a strong message to the Democrats in the wake of ... He kept the old crowd that likes him, he got a lot of new voters. He got a lot of people who say they just want to see what he‘ll do. I call this the ‘get the cat high’ vote.”