Bill Maher stunned his audience Friday night with jokes about the reported affairs involving Nvidia chief Jensen Huang before turning his attention to Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The Real Time with Bill Maher host began his monologue by focusing on one of the week’s biggest stories: Huang’s reported decision to leave his post as Nvidia CEO after allegations about extramarital relationships surfaced.
Reports alleged that Huang had an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data company Megaspeed who has also been described in reports as an alleged Chinese spy. He was also reportedly linked romantically to Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice president of health care.
Maher seized on the fact that Alice Huang reportedly shares the Nvidia chief’s surname, joking that the coincidence must have made for “some awkward moments during sex.”
As the audience erupted, Maher added that the matching last names were “just a coincidence” and said it “could happen to anyone.”
“Ilhan Omar said, ‘Tell me about it—I accidentally married my brother,’” he continued, prompting a shocked reaction from the crowd.
Omar has faced longstanding allegations that she married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help him secure a green card.
Elmi lived with Omar and her first husband, Ahmed Hirsi. Omar and Elmi married in 2009 and divorced in 2017.
Bill Maher took aim at Jensen Huang and Ilhan Omar during Friday’s monologue on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher
Jensen Huang reportedly stepped down from Nvidia earlier this week after allegations about his affairs spread publicly
Maher mocked reports of Huang’s alleged affair with a woman who shares his surname before invoking Ilhan Omar’s marriage controversy
Omar had entered a religious marriage with Hirsi in 2002. The pair legally married in 2018 and divorced the following year.
Omar married her current husband, Tim Mynett, in 2020. She has repeatedly denied claims that she married her brother to help him obtain immigration status, calling the allegation racist propaganda.
In an interview with MS NOW, Omar described the claim as “insane,” saying it began on a blog before being promoted by right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Asked whether her former husband could have been related to her, Omar responded: “Not to my knowledge.”
President Trump later seized on that answer during a rally in Iowa, ridiculing Omar for saying she did not know whether her former husband was related to her.
“She didn’t know whether or not she married her brother. She wasn’t sure,” Trump told the crowd, describing it as “one of the worst answers I think I’ve ever heard.”
Huang, meanwhile, has maintained that he is not related to Alice Huang, the woman described in reports as an alleged spy.
Maher joked: “He’s been having an affair with someone from communist China. It’s not confirmed, but one big red flag was that she had an actual big red flag.”
Huang has been accused in reports of having an affair with Alice Huang, who has also been described as an alleged Chinese spy
Huang has been married to his wife, Lori, since 1985; Maher joked that she must be “pissed” by the reports of his alleged affairs
Reports also alleged a relationship between Huang and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care. Image source: LinkedIn
Maher then turned to the second reported relationship involving Huang and Powell, speculating that Huang’s wife, Lori, must be “pissed.”
“One woman was bad enough when she heard about this other woman—all the black leather jackets out on the front lawn,” Maher joked, referring to Huang’s trademark look, which has become a frequent target of online mockery.
“You thought his chips were in everything—wow,” he concluded.
Nvidia is a leading force in artificial intelligence infrastructure, producing chips, networking equipment and software.
Trump awarded Huang the National Medal of Science in October, just weeks before reports of his alleged extramarital affairs emerged. Those reports were followed by his reported resignation on Thursday.
