In a segment on his HBO program Friday, comedian Bill Maher criticized Gov. Sam Brownback and his campaign’s recent TV ads criticizing Democratic challenger Paul Davis for a 1998 incident at a Coffeyville strip club.

"Governor Brownback, like so many Republicans, refuses to give up on the long-discredited zombie lie of trickle-down economics," Maher said on his "Real Time With Bill Maher" program. "He slashed taxes for the wealthy and eliminated business taxes that were the state’s primary source of revenue and guess what? The state lost all its revenue and crashed. Who could have predicted it, besides everyone?"

Maher told the laughing audience and his panel of guests that, in Kansas, "Schools are so broke now, they have to layoff the janitors and replace them with raccoons," before adding that "Even Dorothy doesn’t want to go home to Kansas now."

The liberal talk show host then turned the topic to an incident in which Davis was at a strip club during a drug raid at the venue called Secrets in August 1998.

"Davis apologized, saying he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Yeah, Kansas," Maher quipped.

Maher ended the segment by arguing that the strip club scandal is indicative of a larger problem in America.

"I like Kansas, I go there. This is not just about Kansas," he said. "This is a national disease, an unholy alliance of easily distracted voters and a shameful, pandering media which used to have the integrity to filter out [expletive] like this."