Bill Maher hints that he's done performing stand-up after his 13th special comes out later this year: 'I put a lot of time and effort into it'

Bill Maher just dropped some major news in a recent conversation with Jerry Seinfeld: he's basically quitting stand-up comedy.

The 68-year-old Real Time host welcomed the 70-year-old comedy legend on his Club Random podcast on Sunday, where he dropped the news.

Seinfeld was promoting his new Netflix movie Unfrosted, though he admitted to Maher he wishes he, 'just could have been a pure stand-up' without doing his movies or talk show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Maher retorted that Seinfeld is already considered, 'the purest of the pure stand-ups,' before adding, 'this leads me to something I feel nervous about telling you.'

'I feel like you're the confessor to this but after this year, I'm going to stop doing it,' Maher said, which seemed to visibly surprise Seinfeld. 

Bill Maher just dropped some major news in a recent conversation with Jerry Seinfeld: he's basically quitting stand-up comedy.

'I feel like you're the confessor to this but after this year, I'm going to stop doing it,' Maher said, which seemed to visibly surprise Seinfeld

'Really?' Seinfeld asked, as Maher admitted, 'I could go back, I don't want to make a big announcement or something,' as Jerry asked him to, 'Go on.'

'Well, I'm doing a special at the end of the year, it'll be my 13th for HBO, that's a lot,' Maher said, with Seinfeld admitting, 'That's a lot.'

'And I just feel like you've got to... I don't know, you know, first of all, I put a lot of time and effort into it, because, as you know, stand-up is like playing the cello,' Maher said, as Seinfeld agreed, stating, 'Absolutely.'

'You can't just go walk up there, you have to stay in practice, and I do, and I've always loved it, I'm always working on it, but I have a show,' Maher said.

Seinfeld admitted, 'I don't know how you kept it up during the show, or, frankly, why, but you did.'

Maher explained he kept going, 'because they fed each other, first of all, it was so great, and also because I love it.'

'I can be the loosest I can be... the show is great but there are constrictures there, this (the podcast) is looser, but what's looser than you people paying to see me?' Maher said.

He joked, 'Even if you don't like it you kind of have to laugh to get your money's worth, like how you stay in a movie even if it sucks.' 

'Really?' Seinfeld asked, as Maher admitted, 'I could go back, I don't want to make a big announcement or something,' as Jerry asked him to, 'Go on'

'Well, I'm doing a special at the end of the year, it'll be my 13th for HBO, that's a lot,' Maher said, with Seinfeld admitting, 'That's a lot'

Maher explained he kept going, 'because they fed each other, first of all, it was so great, and also because I love it'

Maher added, 'If I don't have to play the cello 8 hours a day, I can do... I might want to do one of these live, that's an interesting option that people do nowadays.'

'And then it's kind of an event,' Maher said, as Seinfeld responded, 'It's not crazy.'

Maher added, 'After 40 years, that's why I don't want to like make an announcement because I might change my mind. It might be like cutting off a limb and I have to go back to it.' 

Seinfeld's film Unfrosted - loosely based on the creation of Pop Tarts - debuted on the Netflix streaming service last week.