On Friday’s live broadcast of Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO, Maher casually dropped the n-word in an interview with Republican senator Ben Sasse. The backlash was predictably swift and intense, with HBO releasing a statement that denounced his comment as “completely inexcusable” and Sasse himself coming up with a smart response a day after it was too late, but so far the only repercussion Maher is facing because of this has been HBO announcing that future airings of that Real Time episode will have his use of the word edited out.