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Bill Maher is an American comedian, television presenter, screenwriter, and actor. Born in New York City in 1956, he began his professional career in 1979. He is a graduate of Cornell University and speaks English. Maher has received several honors, including a Primetime Emmy Award, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Richard Dawkins Award. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
His published works include *The New New Rules*, *Spin This!*, and *Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect*. His media presence includes spoken word and political humor content. Maher has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1956
- Works
- 18
Top works
- What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
- Spin This!
- The new new rules
- The New New Rules
- Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
William 'Bill' Maher, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, he hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect, originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC. He's known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which targets a wide…
Known for
- Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This? — Self2025
- Hollywood Squares — Self2025
- Reality — Self (archive footage)2023
- TMZ's Merry Elfin' Christmas — Self2023
- Bill Maher: #Adulting — Self2022
- Cuomo — Self - Guest2022
- Fat Fiction — Self - Comedian (archive footage)2020
- History 101 — Self (archive footage)2020
- Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate — Self2019
- Late Night — Bill Maher2019
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1956
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,074
- Total plays
- 38,088
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William Maher, Jr., (pronounced: /mɑɹ/) (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He hosted the late-night television talk show Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the star of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an Internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled Amazon Fishbowl. Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bill+M
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,464x
- The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 9,164x
- 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias:
<i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,880x
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Quotes
- “Work in the fields? Senator, I'm a house nigga.”
- “Jesus is great — is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between — the bureaucracy, you know. ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater victim of name dropping?”
- “We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, that's not cowardly. Stupid maybe, but not cowardly.”
- “I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.”
- “Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake — you know, to send the right message to kids.”
- “If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.”
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Encyclopedic overview
William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American television host, comedian, actor and political commentator. Known for his political satire, he is the host of the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and podcast Club Random (2022–present). He previously hosted a late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002) on ABC and Comedy Central.
Often described as a moderate liberal, Maher targets many topics including religion, political correctness, and the mass media. His critical views of religion were the basis for his 2008 documentary film Religulous. He is a supporter of animal rights, having served on the board of PETA since 1997. Maher supports the legalization of cannabis, serving on the advisory board of NORML.
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