The prominent US TV personality said being fat “isn’t a birth defect, no-one comes out of the womb needing two seats on the airplane”.
“Fat-shaming doesn’t need to end, it needs to make a comeback”, he said.
“Some amount of shame is good”.
But during the opening monologue on The Late Late Show With James Corden, the Gavin And Stacey star said Maher was encouraging bullying.