Bill Maher

Bill Maher
Location
New York, New York, usa
Birthday
January 20
Title
Comedian
Company
HBO
Bio
Born in NYC and raised in Jersey, Bill Maher began his stand-up career emceeing at Catch a Rising Star in New York City – a job that propelled him to guest spots on The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman. In 1989 he debuted on HBO in a One-Night Stand; that CableACE winner was followed by a 1992 “Command Performance” ONS. Maher and HBO Downtown Productions launched Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central in 1993; it moved to ABC from 1997-2002, during which time Maher built a reputation as a host willing to push the late-night envelope. In 1995 he starred in his first HBO Comedy Hour: Bill Maher: Stuff That Struck Me Funny; other HBO solo specials (8 total) include 1997’s The Golden Goose Special; 2000’s Be More Cynical, 2003’s Victory Begins at Home, 2005’s I’m Swiss, and 2007’s The Decider. He’s been on several Comic Relief shows, the latest being Comic Relief 2006. In fall 2008, he also starred in Religulous, a documentary on religion directed by Larry Charles. Maher is also a successful author whose recent New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer was a New York Times best-seller. He also authored When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism, Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect’s Greatest Hits, and True Story.

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Editor’s Pick
FEBRUARY 25, 2009 3:14PM

New Rule: Size Matters

Rate: 22 Flag

New rule food companies must face the facts, one container equals one serving. Look we are Americans that means once we open the bag there’s no stopping us till we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. See all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher every Friday night at 10pm on HBO!

 

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Damn, damn, damn...All I can do is agree.
Oh for cripe sake! This is a blog? I heard this guy was funny but really now. Is there anybody out there who hasn't joked among their friends about the calorie counts on labels? The six potato chips equals this and that? I think if your purpose here at OS is to advertise a comedy TV show without paying the going rate, that at least some original material should be used. Something funny. hahahahaha nobody can do math. Hahahahaha killer line.
Yawn.
Cheese powder is DONE! So are serving size jokes from a man who refuses to shop at a grocery store. We didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
HBO was one of my budget cuts this year. I miss Bill and am happy to catch a laugh from him here.
That little button says post a comment, but I don't want to.
Teresa M, I had to cut HBO from the budget and am here for the same reason. I like you Bill and am in agreement about the whole religion thing.

I'll never forget watching you after 9-11 and I just knew that your days on network TV were few.
So that's what they mean by 'pork' - it's even in our cheetos now? Those dam Dems.
So Glad to have you on here! It has been a loooooong eight years! Thanks for keeping it real.

Sara
Didn't you (or 'you') just post this same thing on the Huff blog?
I have tried so hard to like you. I really have. I mean, we agree on so much. Especially religion. But your scolding, toxic bachelor sexism, and general smug-athon hyperbole gets so fucking tiresome.
Until 'you' make an effort to have a real presence at OS, I refuse to watch your "posts." I'm just not that into you or your advertising.
This is great--as is/was the writing that lies behind it. This little section is exposition in the spirit (and style) of the 18th C. Wits: a beginning, middle, and end--a very clever end. But . . . let's see the writing on the "page," please. It worked for them; it can work for you. I imagine that attorneys can get around the copyright challenges easily enough--especially if the posts come after the broadcast.
What makes this an EDITOR'S PICK? It's the same schtick from your show Bill Maher. New rule. Erg. So what? Give us something different on your blog so we can all promote it and feel that you have a reason for being here. Go big or go home.
Bill,
Add me to your Friend's list (it's kind of short you know) and I'll get you some converts here on OS. Bill...Bill...are you listening?...Bill...Billl...oh.
NEW RULE-- When making up new rules, make sure they're funny... excepting this one, and the next one I'll think up in about 15 minutes... other than those, they have to be funny.
is this really Bill M, or just one of his interns posting clips? Let's not blog by proxy.
Thanks for making our friendship public Bill. Now my OS peeps (both of them) will listen up. Most OS bloggers are suspicious types (are you kinda’ noticing that?), and they think you are just whoring yourself everywhere for some free attention/advertising of yourself and your show. They don’t like people who do this (see any Dr. Amy post), yet many of them (us) do it too. What my OS peeps really want is just a little personal attention from you – a comment here, a rating there, maybe even a wise ass joke once in awhile. Just show ‘em a little love and their yours for life (or until their comment falls of the Activity Feed).

Don’t let me down Bill. I know you’re busy dreaming up new snarky things (that’s good), but I’m counting on you. And yes, size matters.
Grif
Didn't he bop Ann Coulter? Ewwwwwwwwww!!!!
I'd like an extra large serving of Bill Maher please, with whipped cream on top.
OK, grif, who'd ya blow?
"Everyone's crying, and now I have to go on." BM at the Oscars, in re Heath Ledger's family accepting his award.

Classic narcissistic remark. To hell with Heath Ledger, what about me? Google it, (NPD) just so you know that it's decidedly more malevolent than an oversized ego or looking too long in the mirror.

Explains the misogyny, the hissy-fit over not being nominated, the bloated 250 word bio, and the self-promotion here.

But having said that, Bill, I'm looking for a writing job.
Do you hire female writers?
Do you prefer sycophants or pluck?
I can be politically incorrect, and sometimes I'm even correct.
OK Bill, I'm both really cute and really drunk right now. You should "friend" me as I'm getting totally jealous of grif right now, which isn't cool as he seems really, virtually nice here in Cyberland. I'm typing that with sincerity, I think.
I don't think I approve of this if it's advertising. I love Bill Maher but this is just lazy. Tell us about your first lay or something interesting, please.
Goddamnit, this is nothing but a fucking ad. Bill is NOT blogging here. He is adding nothing except some crap his publicist gleaned from a show outtake. I haven't seen one word actually written by him here. I'm a Bill Maher fan, but this is dishonest and it really sucks.
It's an ad. So what? If you like his stuff, you can click on it. If you don't you can move onto something else.

Just rented Religulous (sp?). It's great stuff. Water comes in steam and ice. Incredible come back.
OK, whoever you are - you have a sense of humor. I had to laugh out loud when I got the "friended" email. So now, who do I have to blow?

(PS, just got Religulous from Netflix)
Ardee,

ahem... errrr...*clears throat*...ahem...
Seriously, I need a job.
What is the standard line on cover letters?
"I know that, given my skills and experience, I am the right man for the position."
Sheesh! I forgot the link:

http://open.salon.com/blog/lilbit
Whaddya mean we're no good at math? I hear that math scores are up in all 58 states!
Bill,
When you and Ann Coulter were "together" did she ever shut her mouth?
I'll have to admit, I'm of at least two minds re: Mr. Maher. Perhaps three.

1. I loved his Politically Incorrect show and was dismayed and ashamed when he got ran off re: speaking the truth.

2. I was an avid, slavish devotee when he first opened on H-B-O, and remained so for many years [although last year, when there was a writers' strike, I realized, as did many, how dependent he was upon same].

3. I actually like that he, like SNL, like The Daily Show, will take shots at whoever's the target. I.E., who's deserving. I.E., bipartisanship at work. [But, like Ms. Mo Dowd, though not to such an egregious degree, I worry that Mr. Maher is losing touch with the contents of his job description at times. Observe, Report, End. Political Humor, Human Condition, Discuss.]

4. I am Very, Very dismayed at the thought of his schtupping Ann Coulter. Eww to the nth degree.

5. I wonder if his playboy mein + marijuana use/abuse is a ploy, a play, a show, ala the ever-tippling Dean Martin?

6. re: Religulous. Loved it. Love the head-on, hands-on treatment of that sacred, pardon the partial pun, cow. BUT - I have noticed on his part - and he'll say it's cultural and Not religious - an intense defense of Judaism and watchfulness of Jewish persecution on his part, which may go to show wherein lies a lot of "our" perceptions, precepts and concepts re: our own faith(s) and/or lack thereof - Family, Habit, Tradition. [I just find that kind of funny and kind of hypocritical at the same time; in other words, he's human.]

7. Ann Coulter. Double Ewww!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! RESTRAINT AND MATH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, we are dumb, you're so right. Oh, lol, oh lol. Bill Maher, you dirty dog, keep telling it as it is.
This is pretty funny. "Bill" has discovered the secret "friends" button, but hasn't quite figured out the "comment" button, or OS etiquette.

Anyone can add friends (and youtube links). It takes a real person to communicate. This looks like as good a place as any to experiment with posting a
Hey Bill. Don't go the way of Dennis Miller. There are enough assholes on the planet!

We do satellite and are on month to month. If we could get HBO and stay that way we'd do it to get your show.

Keep telling it like it is...
So now we are reduced to commenting on T.V. commercials. If in fact this is posted by Bill Maher, then, please write one line that would prove that you are at least a living person who is actually here. (pause, waiting for it, nope nothing)
I strongly suspect the real reason PI was shut down, had nothing to do with 911 comments. You went on television and criticized SUVs. That's not real feasible on network television where the biggest source of income is GM. Specifically ads for SUVs. The 911 comments were probably just an excuse to save face with pissed of auto advertisers. What's stranger is how the second GM is in trouble, gas prices plunge, as if they are owned by the same people. What we need are MPG laws. Like you can't sell a noncommercial car that gets under 25 MPG. Then we will see electric and hybrids roll off the factory lines. And it will be for their own good, since they are going bankrupt trying to sell boats on wheels to people. In terms of being good at math, we have politicians talking about everything but the one thing that would help us with debt. Start printing silver certificates again and paying off our debt interest free. Medical costs will bankrupt us when 80 million baby boomers need operations and the rest of the country is expected to somehow pay for it. If we don't lower the cost of operations we will be completely insolvent in 20 years, and spending trillions now is not exactly helping. The more we insure the higher prices will go. They have to somehow fix the cost of medical operations and limit HMOs.
New Rule: The next time you come on OS please be funny and talk for more than 3 seconds.
And more Fatty jokes please. There is nothing better than a good "lookit the stoopit fatty" joke.
I am glad you told the truth after 9/11 when no others were willing to. After our spending years destroying their people and cultures, it is not surprising they wanted to take a pot shot at us. And, after all, our President and Condeleza Rice both knew about the threat. Perhaps they planned it so Bush could have his "Pearl Harbor."
I think the operative word is 'restraint' for this comic commentary...yeah, like a voice crying in the wilderness beyond those living off the fat of the land...