Talk show host and comedian Bill Maher argued that liberal celebrities should be speaking up about local and state California Democratic politicians' handling of the wildfires.

"I'm with the people who want to hold politicians accountable," Maher told TMZ.

"If you held Bush accountable for Katrina" then "you have to have some intellectual honesty in criticizing your team when they don't do it right. And they’ve had a long time to get this right-er," Maher said.

Maher noted that liberal celebrities typically call for gun control after a mass shooting but most of them seem to be keeping politics out of the wildfires, calling it "hypocritical."

"It's so funny to hear that coming out of the mouths of liberals, because they hate it when conservatives say that after a gun tragedy, which is what conservatives always say after a mass-shooting. ‘This is not the time to politicize it.’ And then it never is," Maher said. "It is absolutely the time to talk about it."

Maher has criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' decision to leave the country before the wildfires hit.