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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 work period in 1979 and is recognized for his contributions to comic, political satire, and criticism of religion. His notable works include the television program Real Time with Bill Maher and the film Religulous. He is also associated with the animal rights movement.
Maher has received several awards, including the Richard Dawkins Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was educated at Cornell University and resides in River Vale. He speaks and writes in English. His bibliography includes works such as The New New Rules and Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect.
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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
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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Maher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- television producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- agnostic atheism
- Notable work
- Religulous
- Field of work
- criticism of religion
- Official website
- billmaher.com
- Image
- BillMaherSept10.jpg
- Residence
- River Vale
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- Bill Maher
- date of birth
- 1956-01-20
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- ビル・マー
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- 1979-00-00
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- Bill Maher
- social media followers
- 10958554
- medical condition
- COVID-19
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- William Maher
- name in native language
- Bill Maher
- influenced by
- George Carlin
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- Anjulie
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Article · 日本語
ウィリアム・"ビル"・マー（William "Bill" Maher、1956年1月20日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国のコメディアン、政治評論家、テレビ司会者。2003年から開始したHBOのトーク番組『』の司会を現在務めている。また過去には類似番組フォーマットの『』をコメディ・セントラル (1993年 - 1997年) およびABC (1997年 - 2002年) で手掛けた。 マーは辛辣な言動、政治的な皮肉、社会政治的な評論で知られている。その対象は宗教、政治、官僚制、ポリティカル・コレクトネス (政治的に正しい発言)、マスメディアなど多岐に渡る。 や同性婚を支持している。宗教に対して批判的意見の持ち主で、その姿勢は2008年公開のドキュメンタリー映画『』にも描かれている。また動物愛護家としても知られ、動物の倫理的扱いを求める人々の会 (PETA) の理事メンバーを1997年から務めている。 2005年、コメディ・セントラルの「偉大なスタンドアップコメディアン100人」で38位にランクインした。2010年9月14日、ハリウッド・ウォーク・オブ・フェーム (ハリウッド名声の歩道) に名前が刻まれた。2020年9月までに、エミー賞各部門に累計41回ノミネートされ、うち1回受賞している。
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