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A friend of mine once called it Elvis Disease. Occasionally an individual will become so powerful, that he forgets he is mortal. (It’s what happened to Marlon Brando’s character in “Apocalypse Now.“) Because when a human becomes so important that people confuse him with a god, he might start believing it himself. When Elvis came out of the dressing room for the first time in that sequined white jumpsuit with elephant bells, high collar, and a matching cape, he asked the people he thought were friends, “Ahh , what d’yall think? Ahh picked it for my Hawaii show…” But everyone...

Talking about H1N1 vaccinations. Even guests Chris Matthews and Alec Baldwin(gnut) seem surprised. They have some pretty good lines. The audience doesn't seem to know when to laugh and/or clap.

If you have the time, it's worth it.

PBS's Bill Moyers issued a tough critique of the Democratic Party on Friday night on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." Moyers said that "too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed." "The problem is the Democratic Party," said Moyers. "This is a party that has told its progressives — who are the most outspoken champions of health care reform — to sit down and shut up. Moyers said that, over the years, the Democratic Party "has become like the Republican party — deeply influenced by corporate money." "I think Rahm Emanuel understands that the money for Obama's reelection...

Days before the 2008 election, HBO host Bill Maher expressed his hatred for Sarah Palin: "If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot from a plane." Maher returned to the wolf-shooting metaphors on Friday night's Real Time as he discussed her farewell address in Alaska – except this time Maher suggested Palin would execute Cherokee Indians. Right-leaning humorist Joe Queenan set off the "joking." QUEENAN: Are you blaming Sarah Palin for the extermination of the Cherokee tribe? MAHER: I certainly am. QUEENAN: Exactly. MAHER: Not that she did...

No matter how dumb, the people who are questioning whether Obama was born in the U.S. could eventually cause real problems.

Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. For the last couple of weeks, we've all been laughing heartily at the wacky antics of the "birthers" -- the far-right goofballs who claim Barack Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii and therefore the job of president goes to the runner-up, former Miss California Carrie Prejean. Also, when Obama was sworn in as president, he forgot to give his answer in the form of a question. And yet, every week, the chorus of conservatives demanding to see his birth certificate grows. It's like they're the Cambridge...

Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. For the last couple of weeks, we've all been laughing heartily at the wacky antics of the "birthers" -- the far-right goofballs who claim Barack Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii and therefore the job of president goes to the runner-up, former Miss California Carrie Prejean. Also, when Obama was sworn in as president, he forgot to give his answer in the form of a question. And yet, every week, the chorus of conservatives demanding to see his birth certificate grows. It's like they're the Cambridge...

Astonishing. From Jimmy Arone at Big Hollywood, a roundup of Bill Maher's Real Time monologue from last Friday night: In defending his friend, Maher thought Republicans had over reacted and this was just a case of ‘fake’ outrage. Much ado about nothing. He then went on talking about how Letterman had invited Sarah Palin and her young daughter, Willow, to appear as guests on his show but the Governor declined because she thought it would be wise to keep her daughter away from him. Said Maher, “…that’s right, he’s 62 years old, he’s gonna [f**k] her right there on stage…it...

I almost fell off my chair when I read this line at The Live Feed: “Self-described libertarian pundit Bill Maher ripped Barak Obama during a lengthy monologue on his HBO program Friday night, accusing the president of being obsessed with appearing on TV and failing to come through on pre-election promises.” “This is not what I voted for,” Maher said. “I don’t want my president to be a TV star.” What’s more shocking? That Maher is attacking Obama or that he describes himself as a Libertarian?

As much as those who seek to defend Standard English hate to admit it, language is a social compact in flux. Bill Safire, the great warrior for the language of Shakespeare, fought a battle he could never win. Every day, the entire world's population modifies and adapts language to fulfill contemporary needs. What is in a word? Nothing more than what we hear and believe. Still, words have power. They change thoughts. Eloquence flows to authority, which flows to new perception. If asked, no sensible parent would give his child a dose of amphetamines (speed) on a daily basis. Yet...

President Obama should just join the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" It's not that farfetched; he's been on everything else. I'm still a fan, but there's a fine line between being transparent and being overexposed. Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway and Paris -- this is the best season of "The Bachelor" yet! I get it: You love being on TV. I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once...

Though Bill makes fun of Bush and the Republican party, he tries really hard to trash Obama.

President Obama should just join the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" It's not that farfetched; he's been on everything else. I'm still a fan, but there's a fine line between being transparent and being overexposed. Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway and Paris -- this is the best season of "The Bachelor" yet! I get it: You love being on TV. I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once...

On his Friday show Real Time, HBO host Bill Maher interviewed the female rapper M.I.A. (real name: Mathangi Arulpragasam) on the end of civil war in her native Sri Lanka. Maher used the interview to denounce the ignorance of Americans, a Maher staple, but then he insisted that "we" Americans think of the Buddhists and the Hindus as "more spiritual" and peaceful than we are. Maher explained that the Tamils (the heritage of M.I.A.) are mostly Hindu, and the Sinhalese majority are mostly Buddhist. She insisted it isn't a religious war, and Maher replied: It’s interesting because I think in...

The Funny thing about Obama ... is that there’s nothing funny about Obama. On his HBO show, “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the comedian routinely makes vicious fun of celebrities, politicians, presidents and even God. But he’s learned that, for much of his audience, Barack Obama is off limits.

Bill, I got news for you. Not every environmental scientist believes in your so-called "global warming".

The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments. It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's...

Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has made religious jokes for years but with the success of such “New Atheist” books as Christopher Hitchens’ god Is Not Great and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith, now was the time for a documentary critical of religion. In “Religulous” – a portmanteau of “religion” and “ridiculous” – Maher travels the globe to interview people of faith, challenge their often dogmatic ideas, and pitch a joke here and there. Maher starts out at home, talking with his mother and sister about the family’s ambivalent attitude toward religion. From there he begins a...

"Isn't it interesting that many of Chris Matthews metaphors come from phallic symbols." "Newsweek - it's sorta like Pravda with pictures." "Countdown with No Ratings with Keith Overbite" Mark Levin

I don’t know why Bill Maher still has a platform. Well, no, I take that back. I know why he does; it’s because he’s a liberal and he spews liberal [edited] out of his mouth on a regular basis, and the liberals at HBO love it. But he’s sunk to yet another despicable low, slandering our troops. It’s not like it’s the first time — remember when he called our troops “cowards” right after 9-11? Maher replied: “We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from two thousand miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the...

Bill Maher has said some outrageous things, but IMO nothing can compare to the remarks he makes in this clip. Go to the 2:42 mark -- he will mention US Troops in Germany and Japan. I can't believe there hasn't been an outcry over this...

The Media Research Center's Annual Gala and Dishonors for 2009 were held on March 19, 2009. The link above is to the inimitable Great One's presentation of the Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin. Mark also presented the Dan Rather Award for The Stupidest Analysis.Levin is THE bomb. God bless him. Other presentations from the event are also included HERE

Maher and Olbermann accuse conservative talk radio of "whipping up" fringe elements of society. Maher and Olbermann accused conservative talk radio of "whipping up" fringe elements of society Friday. Maher: Listening to people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck these days, I cannot figure out whether these right wingers are more dangerous when they're in power or when they're out of power, because when they're out of power, you know their paranoid, their paranoia goes off the charts. This Glenn Beck guy, I wouldn't even give him the time of day except he's a big star now on Fox and...

Fox New's Glenn Beck is increasing "the chance for people to take horrible action" on President Obama. So said HBO's Bill Maher Friday evening in a lengthy discussion about FNC's new primetime star. I guess Maher missed the hypocrisy concerning his disturbingly caustic views of the Bush administration while they were in power, in particular his expression of regret that the March 2007 assassination of Vice President Dick Cheney failed. Possibly even more delicious was that sitting to Maher's left was MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who himself has made an almost endless number of personal attacks on members of the Bush...

Bill Maher is a full time comedian known for his wit, sharp tongue, and edgy material. To those who are familiar with his work many would consider him a talent in the world of "smart" comedy and showbiz. Like all styles that are out there, it is usually hit or miss, and Mr. Maher is no different. He has as many detractors as he has admires. But, Maher is also a little unique when one considers his very opinionated political and personal views. For instance, he professed respect and intrigue in Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, governor, and presidential...

Political commentator and TV host Bill Maher won “Quote of the Year” at the Media Research Center’s annual Dishonors Awards for his remarks about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign. Maher – on HBO’s “Real Time” in September 2008-- questioned whether Palin’s infant son Trig was her child or that of her teenage daughter, Bristol. “I’m not that convinced that that’s her baby,” Maher said. “It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else.”

Pretty much everyone I respect in media and politics recommended I not go on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." But on Friday night, I defied that wisdom and had the time of my life. I sparred with Mr. Maher, Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson and a MoveOn.org audience from hell that booed my sentences before they were completed. Unfortunately, my wife and in-laws, who watched from the green room, were not as enamored with the experience as I was. Since the salad days of ABC's "Politically Incorrect," which minted countless right-wing pundits and best-selling authors, conservatives have rightly assessed...

Refusing to engage the ideological enemy in popular media invites failure, argues Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. He's absolutely right to say that conservatives "can't win the political war until we take on the Hollywood and mainstream media battles." Breitbart offered this reflection after running the gauntlet of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" (video available at Breitbart's Big Hollywood website) where he was tag-teamed by a liberal elitist host and a self-important pseudo-intellectual named Michael Eric Dyson. "Pretty much everyone I respect in media and politics" warned him not to appear on the show, but he did and writes...

As NewsBusters previously reported, conservative Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart went into the belly of the liberal beast Friday evening by appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Although he was treated abysmally by the host, his co-panelist, and the audience, Breitbart stated in Monday's Washington Times column that he had the time of his life. More importantly, he strongly made the case concerning why conservatives must stop avoiding encounters with shameless, liberal media members such as Maher, Jon Stewart, and even the good ladies of "The View" and instead "take [them] on head-on" (h/t Hot Air): Pretty much everyone...

At the top of Tuesday night's pseudo-political debate at the Chicago Theatre, we were reminded that Bill Maher had promised never to have sex with a Republican and Ann Coulter never to lie with a Democrat. For this, we had been told, was a high-minded celebration of free speech. A few minutes later we were discussing the Alabama shootings. Such is our current astounding tolerance for the profitable mixture of colorful media personality and actual human pain. But I get ahead of myself. Early on in the night, Halperin took a little poll. It wasn't even close. Sure, a couple...

March 11, 2009 At Radio City, a Showdown Between Maher and Coulter By DAVE ITZKOFF Tucked into an angular lounge chair in an Art Deco suite above Radio City Music Hall on Monday evening, Ann Coulter, the conservative author, was awaiting her would-be adversary, the liberal comedian Bill Maher. She and Mr. Maher had agreed to face off in a series of debates over the next three nights, and Ms. Coulter was concerned that their material might go stale from repeated performances. “Bill wants me to behave like a wife who laughs each time she hears her husband tell...

I heard Curt Schilling mention it briefly on WEEI this morning.

In an event billed as a “distinguished speaker series” event, Ann Coulter faced off against Bill Maher last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. In front of 6,000 hissing New York City liberals -- alternately absorbing and answering vulgar, sexist and racist insults from “comedian” Bill Maher -- Coulter battled back against audience shriekers, an unfunny Maher and “moderator” Mark Halperin of Time Magazine in a “debate” that would have been more accurately billed as a cage match and shown on Pay-per-View tv. The tone was set at the very start. The audience was asked whether they...

The US Airways pilot who today amazingly crash-landed a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River without any apparent fatalities. The media found out he is a

Lots of thoughts of all kinds. We've got the Good Guy of the Week and a fine Rant. Comments on Obama's lie of an unecessary speech. Amazing how the stock market keeps dropping every time this guy opens his mouth, huh? Also, tea parties, Gary Condit lies, and don't miss the WORST thing you can do with cat litter....ever!

On the 2009 debut of his HBO show Real Time on Friday night, Bill Maher proposed his new solution for the economic crisis: legalize marijuana. In an interview with Rep. Ron Paul, he lectured: "When FDR came into office in '33, one of the first things he did was repeal Prohibition. He said we can’t afford this any more." Paul was puzzled, so Maher continued: "When he was making radical changes, he said ‘look, we’re serious now. We’re gonna get serious, and people like liquor." Well, in this country, people love pot...[applause]...and if we ended that Prohibition, it’d be a...

Ok Freepers and Miss Coulter what is the real scoop on Coulter vs. Maher debate host by AndersonCooper at NY Radio City Hall. When and what are yall debating.Is this meant as humor only?Didnt you two debate in March of 2007?Maher claims he has not hung out with his old politcal drinking buddy Ann in many years and they use to be good buds. (I find that hard to believe) Is this going to televised? I understand tickets went on sale a few days ago and this debate will be in March. Anyone got the inside (truth) scoop from Miss...

It's was a strange time for polemic comedian Bill Maher to put his HBO talk show Real Time With Bill Maher on hiatus, what with the whole Obama-taking-office-and-trying-to-save-the-world thing happening. But the controversial host has been off the air for nearly two months, and while every other pundit has weighed in on the President's much-debated stimulus package and his performance so far, Maher has remained silent. Luckily you don't have to wait until the return of his show on February 20 to find out what he thinks, because we had the chance to talk to Maher, who's currently promoting the...

Last night, I watched the Kennedy Center show honoring (posthumously) George Carlin. A truly brilliant, insightful, funny comedian, Carlin's bits over his 40 year career in standup were introduced by a number of comedians and I thoroughly enjoyed the chuckles down memory lane. Until the next-to-last presenter: Bill Maher, the smirking, rabidly liberal former funnyman who is not only a professed atheist, but virulently anti-religious.

Newark's Roman Catholic archbishop is upset part of Bill Maher's movie was filmed at Bergen County parish. Maher set part of his documentary "Religulous," which mocks organized religion, in Our Lady of Mercy in Park Ridge. A spokesman for Archbishop John Myers said the parish priest was aware of a policy that prohibits any commercial filming in churches. But Jim Goodness said filmmakers told the Very Rev. Charles Grandstrand that Maher wanted to film his Jewish mother there because the church was such a big part of her life. Hi father was Catholic. Maher grew up in nearby River Vale....

Bill Maher- the #1 Anti-Catholic Bigot http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2008/categories/iqaward10.asp

On the November 14 episode of the HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the comedian said the following: “A Catholic priest in South Carolina has told his congregation: If you voted for Obama you can’t receive Communion. That’s right. The cracker won’t let you get the cracker. He said supporting Obama constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil. Then he proceeds to pass around the plate so everyone could chip in to payoff the child f------ lawsuits.” Catholic League president Bill Donohue spoke to this issue today: “Maher has a long and ugly history of bashing Catholicism, and he typically...

Bill Mahr is a smirking pi$$ant and I can hardly stand to watch him. But he was on Mike Huckabee's show last night and here is the YouTube video. Huck shows us how a Christian can intelligently defend his faith against a sneering atheist pusbag while remaining calm and civil. My hat is off to Mr. Huckabee. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1O9xTLTBc8

snip Hear what Thought Leaders and Celebs Vote for at gap.com/votefor: To get voters thinking about what they "Vote for," Gap enlisted the help of 10 personalities and thought-leaders to create their own 'Vote for" videos at gap.com/votefor. Participants include Bill Maher, Norman Lear, Cameron Sinclair, Perez Hilton, Mark Cuban, Olivia Munn, Kristen Bell, The Cool Kids, John Picard and Minka Kelly who "Vote for" a range of passions from "Imagining New Energy" to "BBQ." Voters can embed their favorite videos on personal blogs and other websites.

Newark, Oct 19, 2008 / 06:19 pm (CNA).- A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark has responded to reports that comedian Bill Maher filmed part of his anti-religion documentary “Religulous” at a parish in the archdiocese. Maher set part of the film at Our Lady of Mercy in Park Ridge, New Jersey. The relevant scenes show his sister and his Jewish mother, who explains why his Catholic father stopped going to church. Jim Goodness, an archdiocesan spokesman, told The Record that he turned down two requests to use the church property, one from Maher’s production company and one from the...

Imagine that a prominent media conservative jokingly hoped, in any way shape or form, that a member of the Dem presidential ticket would be shot. How long until the MSM and various others demanded he be fired, a Secret Service investigation launched, etc? But when Bill Maher jokes about Sarah Palin being shot? Silence, except for the raucous laughter of the studio crowd. Maher offered up his violent fantasy on this past Friday's Real Time on HBO in a regular feature devoted to exploring foreign countries to which people might consider moving in the event of a McCain victory. India...

When last we left our friend Evan Sayet, the conservative Hollywood comedian was ripping into his former boss, HBO's Bill Maher. But throughout my interviews with him, Sayet doesn't shy away from offering praise for liberal TV comedians and shows, including Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live. Stewart is his favorite lefty. He likes the Comedy Central comic because, besides being genuinely funny, "he doesn't take himself as serious as the others do" and "he takes shots at both sides." But even while praising Stewart, Sayet points out the double standard that is infused in Stewart's comedy. "You...

Humanist Comedian Bill Maher’s New Movie Is Full of Falsehoods, Bigotry, Ignorance, Arrogance, and Hypocrisy By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher, and Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor Religulous, comedian Bill Maher’s attack on Christianity and religion, is full of lies, half-truths, false assumptions, logical contradictions and fallacies, distortions, intolerance, prejudice, bigotry, arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy. It’s a pathetic propaganda piece that will warp the hearts and minds of the gullible and the ignorant. It is also very poorly researched and argued. Maher’s diatribe starts out innocently enough. He tells the viewer how he was raised a Roman Catholic, even though his mother...

There are three problems with Bill Maher's new movie mocking faith: It misunderstands religion, misconceives God and gets human nature all wrong. I have a fantasy of a counter-movie. I would travel around the world and interview every scientist with a crackpot theory or a quack cure. I'd find researchers who were venal, eccentric, foolish or cruel, throwing in a few responsible scientists for credibility. Call it, say, "Scientifictious." Of course, that would be no more convincing than "Religulous." Religion is not univocal; there are lots of varieties and personalities. There is no shortage of strange beliefs and practices. There...