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Bill Maher

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Bill Maher Says "America's Not Number One!"

    A lot of triumphalists want to keep alive the idea that America is at the forefront of everything, the same rah-rah spirit that's inflated our egos and sometimes has us coming off downright piggish in our world views. But comic observer Bill Maher disagrees. "Really?" says Bill. "Always waving th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    NY Post's Abby Schachter: 'The Left' Is Unpatriotic for Complaining About Racism

    Did you know that complaining about racism makes you unpatriotic and means that you have a (bad) attitude toward America? Well, it doesn't, but that's what the New York Post's Abby Schachter suggests. "Bill Maher pretty much summed up the left's attitude toward the United States when he declared ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Donald Trump Raises $600,000 For Romney Campaign By Throwing Birthday Bash For Candidate's Wife

    Let's face it: the possible First Lady has had a rough week. The news cycle was head over heels with the recent housewife controversy that sparked between the Romney tent, Hillary Rosen and Bill Maher. You know, that whole comment about Ann "never actually [working] a day in her life." Yeah, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    May The Holidays Bring....

    ​*A toast to Marcus Bachmann: "Bottoms up!" *Lindsay Lohan living behind bars instead of dancing on top of them. *Mothers who keep tiaras off their toddlers.

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Sarah Palin Is The Kim Kardashian Of Politics

    David Shankbone/Wikipedia​That's the contention of this very enjoyable article by Mike Lupica in the New Yortk Daily News. Says Lupica: "As Bill Maher likes to put it, when Palin ran for Vice President, her idea of a 'gotcha' question was being asked what she likes to read. "Palin's truest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    American Idol: No Judging, Please, We're Only Being Paid Gobs Of Money To Do So

    Michael Becker/FOX​Hey, remember when enough people would get voted off American Idol and the show would go down to a much saner 60-minute running time? That was nice. Now, with only five people left, we still get a 90-minute show, with all the contestants singing twice. Maybe Fox is just dete ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2011

    Is Western Coverage of Japan Veering Into "Disaster Porn"?

    Reuters via NYT​An idea getting thrown around on the Internet is that American news networks' coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a form of "disaster porn." This post from Tokyo photographer Rikki Kasso's blog reposted on Tumblr sums up the argument: Please everybody do not re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Super Bowl: Biggest, Greatest, Most Important Day on Earth? So They Say.

    Jan. 28, 2011 Clip - New Rule: Irritable Bowl Syndrome If we are to believe a new poll conducted by the market research and consulting firm Penn Schoen Berland, Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will be the most important day in American history & ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Julian Assange Movie Coming Soon

    ​Variety is reporting that a biopic on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in the works and will be based on The Most Dangerous Man in the World, the forthcoming biography by Andrew Fowler. (The process of optioning an unreleased book for a quick movie was made famous most recently by The Soci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Does Oprah Promote Greed?

    ​Sure she does, and as someone who adores grubbing for all sorts of things, I think that's marvelous! But satirical commentator Bill Maher objected to her recent, elaborate series of giveaway shows and said so in a sardonic holiday-themed video he just made waves with. Well, last night on MS ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2010

    Zach Galifianakis Sparks a Joint on Real Time With Bill Maher

    In a few days, California voters will decide on Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana and allow the local government to regulate and tax the drug. The federal government has warned that no matter what the voters decide, federal law will remain the same and smoking marijuana will be a probl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    Ann Coulter Sells It Hard in the Style Section

    ​Only a few years after Ann Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot," she spoke to a room of conservative homosexuals at Homocon 2010. Marriage, she told them, "is not a civil right - you're not black." Presumably, they clapped for her. ("She boasted of having several gay friends.") The New York ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

    You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2010

    NY Times Calls Christine O'Donnell Hot, Lets Her Say "Slut" in Sorta Sexist Story

    ​Christine O'Donnell is most famous, thus far, for her personality, not her politics. She, as we all know, hates masturbation, but used to hang out with Bill Maher and play around with witchcraft and boys who liked Satan. Warlocks? She is not a virgin! This weekend, she made the New York Times ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Rightbloggers Beat Off Charges of Lunacy in Christine O'Donnell's Masturbation, Satanism Remarks

    When Christine O'Donnell beat Mike Castle last week to become the GOP nominee in the Delaware Senatorial race, a clown car pulled up and several bizarre O'Donnell quotes came piling out. The most famous of these, so far, are probably her remarks on the sure-fire comedy topics of masturbation and Sat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2010

    Bill Maher Has Masturbation-Hating Christine O'Donnell By the Balls Because She 'Dabbled in Witchcraft' on a 'Satanic Altar'

    Oh, this is almost too much to handle. Think Progress, by way of The Daily What, points us toward the above video of Bill Maher on the subject of everyone's latest favorite crazy white person, Christine O'Donnell, who is a real live candidate for the United States Senate who loathes lust and reall ... More >>

  • Film

    January 5, 2010

    Meet Nutty Mainstream Christians in Waiting for Armageddon

    Oh, this is almost too much to handle. Think Progress, by way of The Daily What, points us toward the above video of Bill Maher on the subject of everyone's latest favorite crazy white person, Christine O'Donnell, who is a real live candidate for the United States Senate who loathes lust and reall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Twitpic by StWiltshire. The last full week of the election campaign was sorta fun -- as it should have been with Mayor Bloomberg spending $37,000 an hour on it. And it worked: the big papers endorsed him, as did another Democrat, and polls showed him way out of Bill Thompson's reach. We still su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Q&A: Bill Maher on Catholicism, Obama, Gore Vidal, Polanski, and Never Making Another Movie

    Photo courtesy Alberto Tolot/HBO Way back during the Clinton Administration, Bill Maher had the wonderful idea of letting a comedian -- himself -- talk regularly with politicians and political commentators about current events on TV. Politically Incorrect turned poli-chat into something non-wonks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Swine Flu Vaccine PANIC: Do We Have Enough, and Will It Kill Us?

    Swine flu vaccines will be in New York schools next week -- unless they run out: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius admits there's not enough to go around at present. "Demand is ahead of the yield," she says; Senator Joe Lieberman says there are 30 million doses available, as oppo ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2009

    Revolution 2009: The Beatles Remasters

    The new versions might not strike you as drastically different. Buy some anyway.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Let's Have a Moratorium on Jacko Remarks

    ​Well, just one, actually. Everyone from me to Bill Maher still thinks it's hilarious to say something on the order of "Michael Jackson started as a black man and he ended up a white woman." You can't turn on the TV or pick up the phone or crawl into a sewer without hearing someone say that ve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

    Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

    --Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

  • Film

    May 6, 2009

    Kirby Dick's Outrage Outs Closeted Pols and the Media that Protect Them

    --Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Best Doorman In Town, Derek Neen

    The most important personages in New York after midnight, doormen set the tone for a club by weeding out undesirables while making the welcomed throngs feel more special than prize pigs at a state fair. The best at this particular craft is Derek Neen, who guards the door at Beige on Tuesdays at B Ba ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 8, 2009

    THE JOKER

    The most important personages in New York after midnight, doormen set the tone for a club by weeding out undesirables while making the welcomed throngs feel more special than prize pigs at a state fair. The best at this particular craft is Derek Neen, who guards the door at Beige on Tuesdays at B Ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Christopher Hitchens Calls Mos Def "Mr. Definitely" on Bill Maher

    One of the things most entertaining slash most infuriating about rappers straying, whether intentionally or otherwise, onto political talk shows is the inability of their hosts and fellow guests to call them by their given names. Hence a smirking Dennis Miller calling Young Jeezy both "Emphysema" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    "Obama is a Fascist" Watch Continues

    After Obama fired the General Motors CEO, we predicted rightbloggers would take to calling him a fascist. And we were right! Now, to follow up -- fascism and related accusations since lunch: "[Bill Maher] can't even see that FASCISM is right under his nose, under the name of Barack HUSSEIN Obama" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

    Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 8, 2008

    Bill Maher Takes Us to Hell!

    Sally Hawkins just grins, while Greg Kinnear spills the Soup

  • Film

    October 1, 2008

    Bill Maher Makes an Adolescent Case Against Religion in Religulous; Muslim Comics Play It Safe in Allah Made Me Funny

    Oh, God! You devil's advocate

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2008

    Bill Maher on Obama, Clinton and McCain

    Oh, God! You devil's advocate

  • Film

    October 31, 2006

    'Fuck'

    Oh, God! You devil's advocate

  • Screens

    October 4, 2005

    Name Games

    Cause for concern, wonderment: Leader of the free world calls the Russian leader Pootie-Poot

  • Music

    November 23, 2004

    They Came for Bubba and I Said Nothing, for I Was Not a Love Sponge

    Cause for concern, wonderment: Leader of the free world calls the Russian leader Pootie-Poot

  • Art

    October 5, 2004

    Liberal Comforters

    Jon and Bill: The hosts who make us laugh when we'd rather cry

  • Columns

    May 25, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Jon and Bill: The hosts who make us laugh when we'd rather cry

  • Art

    December 23, 2003

    The Pleasure Channel

    The Year in TV

  • News

    December 2, 2003

    Concerning Sotoligarchy

    What happens when the rich and powerful rule the stupid? It's called America.

  • Film

    October 21, 2003

    It's DéJà Vu All Over Again as Bush and Gore Rerun for Office

    What happens when the rich and powerful rule the stupid? It's called America.

  • News

    July 1, 2003

    Knicks vs. Draftniks

    And the Knicks Grab Pole Position

  • Columns

    May 20, 2003

    NY Mirror

    And the Knicks Grab Pole Position

  • News

    May 6, 2003

    Staying in the Game

    How Bill Maher Got Dixie Chicked and Survived

  • Art

    April 1, 2003

    Queen for a Night

    Gay Hosts Undermine Talk Show Macho

  • News

    July 30, 2002

    On Being Called a Commie

    Red-Baiting in a World Without Reds

  • News

    October 2, 2001

    The Price of Unity

    Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

  • News

    September 11, 2001

    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Backlash

    Can’t Take the Fag jokes? Dude, That’s Sooo Gay!

  • News

    October 19, 1999

    Mr. Natural

    Is Masculinity a Cultural Construction or a Biological Fact? Science (and Sci-Fi) Enter the Gender Fray.

  • Columns

    September 21, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Is Masculinity a Cultural Construction or a Biological Fact? Science (and Sci-Fi) Enter the Gender Fray.

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