Posted on 03/15/2024 4:56:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sources say the ‘Real Time’ host was furious after he wasn’t invited to Bryan Lourd’s Academy Awards bash.
Sources say the host of HBO’s Real Time fired CAA, his reps for more than two decades, on Monday after he was not invited to CEO Bryan Lourd’s private Oscar party at his home on Saturday night.
Maher, according to sources, was furious that he was snubbed for the event — which was scheduled opposite the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Night Before bash. The party at Lourd’s home drew the likes of J.J. Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger, Alan Bergman, Dana Walden, Brian Robbins, Jason Blum, Brian Grazer, Donna Langley, Pam Abdy and such CAA clients as Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston, among others, according to industry newsletter Puck.
Lourd’s private party came a day after CAA toasted nominees including Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Jodie Foster and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, among others, on Friday night at Sunset Tower.
Maher had been repped at CAA by Steven Lafferty, who also serves as the agency’s head of television.
News of Maher ditching CAA comes after the agency recently negotiated a two-year extension for Real Time, which takes the weekly talk show through its 24th season in 2026. The series is one of HBO’s longest-running originals. It launched in 2003 and is second in the premium cable network’s history, behind only the recently concluded Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, in terms of the number of seasons it has run.
Reps for Maher did not immediately respond to THR‘s request for comment.
LOL
“The” Hollywood Oscar Party is the last place I’d like to spend my precious time on earth.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy... It's a big club, Bill, buddy, and you ain't in it.
That’s so gay.
I think Bill Mahr is an ass but he’s right to do this to CAA because networking is everything in the entertainment industry and they left him out in the cold like trash. Nobody should have to pay for that kind of treatment.
Well, all of these leftist maggots think that’s the place to be. Tells us a lot about them doesn’t it?
That’s what he gets for saying a few positive or reasonably neutral things about Trump. He’s been blacklisted.
J.J. Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger, Alan Bergman, Jason Blum, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston...
That’s a Hollywood A list. Bill Maher is well known, but not really in this league. He’s a cable TV host and podcaster who sometimes strays from the political correctness. Not even those million dollar donations to Obama and Hillary! can redeem him.
Princess Leia's gay husband.
Harris was there? I think one definition of hell would be listening to and suffering that fool and her word salads.
See, we’re not kidding about these people doing everything just to get invited to the cool parties.
He will probably be the one that regrets that. Nothing really creative from what I've seen.
Personally, I hope they both implode & fade away like disappearing ink.
I am guessing he is no longer liberal enough to hang out with the “A” list.
Yeah, that was my guess. 🙂
Really, I always thought that was a metaphor.
In fairness, she turned him gay, right?
I agree.
Ah, I just remembered… he did have a featured role in DC Cab. Maybe he can go with Mr T’s agent.
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