Bill Maher, host of HBO's “Real Time With Bill Maher”, went on an anti-cruise ship rant following the entire cruise industry announced they would pause for a month due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
At the end of the show, Maher talked about the Coronavirus outbreak on a couple of ships, and then delved into anti-cruise tropes.
Maher commented on how he felt the industry has been an issue before the coronavirus, “Calling a cruise ship a floating petri dish was funny the first 300 times some gross disease swept through the cabins. But it’s not that funny anymore, because petri dishes are small, and controllable, and stay locked in a lab where they can’t hurt anybody.”
“Cruise ships, on the other hand, are large and quite difficult to control,” Maher continued. “Which is why they keep crashing into things like docks, and rocks, and each other.”
Maher went on to call out long hours of work, crimes committed at sea and onboard activities he lamented.
Matt Hochberg
Matt loves to cruise, and started Cruise.Blog as a place to share different cruise experiences, advice, and what to know before going on a cruise.
He lives in Florida with his wife and two daughters, where he can be found on any given day trying to convince his wife they "need" to book another cruise.
