WATCH: Bill Maher says Vance inter­view crit­ics wouldn’t be hap­py unless he ‘punched him in the nose’

Lib­er­al come­di­an Bill Maher dis­missed back­lash that he went too easy on Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance dur­ing their recent inter­view, argu­ing that crit­ics wouldn’t have been sat­is­fied unless the con­ver­sa­tion had end­ed in a phys­i­cal altercation.“They would nev­er be hap­py unless JD Vance walked out and I punched him in the nose,” Maher told Fox News Dig­i­tal. “That’s the only thing that would sat­is­fy cer­tain people.“He con­tin­ued, “I don’t play that game. I like to actu­al­ly talk to people.“BILL MAHER’S DIRE MIDTERM ELECTION WARNING TO DEMS AFTER ‘REALLY CRAZY’ SOCIALISTS WIN PRI­MARIES­Ma­her faced crit­i­cism after Fri­day’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” inter­view­ing Vance as some argued he failed to chal­lenge the vice pres­i­dent aggres­sive­ly enough on polit­i­cal issues.“For some­one who spend …