Bill Maher Gives “Whiny Little B*tch” Donald Trump the Finger on ‘Still Laugh-In’

If you thought Netflix’s Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate was just going to be a kooky jaunt down memory lane hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and Tiffany Haddish, you thought wrong. It is all that, for sure, but any special that applauds the legacy of Laugh-In has to have an edge to it–and Still Laugh-In has some sharp comments about today’s administration.

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was a campy political protest that aired in primetime every week, and the new Netflix special updates that vibe to mock current president Donald Trump. That’s most apparent during Still Laugh-In’s look back at the original show’s Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award segment, presented by none other than Bill Maher. As Maher explained, the original award was given to “famous individuals of government institutions for their hypocrisy, their blunders, and their stupidity. Some of the recipients were congress, the Ku Klux Klan, Russia–all were deserving back then and still today of someone giving them the finger.”

If the young’uns need context, here’s a compilation of hosts Dan Rowan and Dick Martin handing out the Rigid Digit to the workers at the Pentagon, congress, the drug industry, and more.

For the special, Maher dusts off the old Fickle Finger of Fate award and presents it for the first time in 46 years to someone that you just know the original Laugh-In would have had a field day lampooning.

“It goes to a man whose hypocrisy, blunders, and stupidity have made him the perfect recipient,” says Maher. “The new Flying Fickle Finger of Fate goes to the whiny little bitch himself, President Donald J. Trump!”

Considering how many public officials were mocked by Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, Trump is now in pretty solid company thanks to Maher’s diss/salute. You could look at this statue as a lifetime achievement award, though, because Trump gave Laugh-In plenty to lampoon 50 years ago, if only the show had known then just how big a historical figure he’d soon become. Before he became fixture of headlines in the mid-’70s, Trump was given a medical deferment and avoided going to Vietnam in 1968 and the management of a Trump apartment complex in Ohio was sued for racial discrimination in 1969. This Fickle Finger award was a long time coming!

Stream Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate on Netflix