Bill Maher launches podcast network with Billy Corgan, Kevin Garnett, Sage Steele and Fred Durst
Bill Maher has launched Club Random Studios, a podcast network and entertainment hub with hosts Billy Corgan, Kevin Garnett, Sage Steele and Fred Durst.
After two years of hosting his own podcast, Bill Maher will help others do the same with Club Random Studios, a podcast network and entertainment hub aiming to champion “authenticity from unfiltered celebrity voices.”
Besides Maher’s own “Club Random,” the network’s first show is “The Sage Steele Show,” hosted by Sage Steele, dropping March 27. Steele joined ESPN as an anchor in 2007 and climbed the ranks at the network until she was suspended without pay over controversial comments she made on another podcast. She sued ESPN and settled last year. Upcoming guests on “The Sage Steele Show” include Dana White, Howie Mandel, Sharon Osbourne, Jillian Michaels, Drea DeMatteo, Adam Carolla, Reggie Watts and Steve Garvey.
In a statement announcing the new venture, Maher said, “Dance like no one’s watching? We talk like no one can cancel us.”
Maher collaborated with “Club Random” co-creators and executive producers Chris Case and Chuck LaBella to launch Club Random Studios. Maher tells Variety he was inspired to build the podcast network because “the style of my podcast has notable differences from other ones, and we wanted to replicate that a bit.”
“People want to hear not just a few voices, like in the old days when there were three talk shows,” Maher says. “These are people who I would be interested in listening to.”
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