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The cartoon character Pogo by Walt Kelly is best remembered for his line, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

As actors ponder their Emmy acceptance speeches for Sept 12, one wonders whether some incipient Adrian Lester envy might creep into their thoughts. Lester, the Black British actor, won a Tony nomination for playing both a German Jewish banker and a female character in The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway. At the Emmys, actors like Jennifer Coolidge and Steve Martin will likely win kudos for essentially playing themselves, with great aplomb.

As Salman Rushdie fights for his life after being brutally stabbed Friday while delivering a lecture onstage, Bill Maher spoke out about the circumstances underlying the attack on the author.

While Salman Rushdie struggles for his life in the wake of a stabbing attack, an angry Bill Maher decried the treatment of his good friend (and frequent guest) by a man whose name had the host guessing”is not Amish.”

It’s that time of year – schools aren’t open, people are on vacation, the weather is kind of humid and downright terrible in some locations. It’s almost the end of the so-called “dog days of summer,” a sleepy moment on the calendar, which is why Bill Maher can be forgiven for a somewhat meandering Real Time last night.

Jay Leno is speaking about the late-night drama that once surrounded him.

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is out on a rehabilitation tour. Sure, he’s got a new podcast to tout, and will soon start a new primetime show on NewsNation (formerly WGN).

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC’s “Late Night” won’t broadcast new episodes for the rest of the week after host Seth Meyers discovered Wednesday he tested positive for coronavirus.“After negative tests Monday and Tuesday I tested positive for COVID this morning,” Meyers said on Twitter. ” Canceling shows the rest of this week.

Emmy award-winning comedy writer Kevin Rooney passed away in his home on July 19th after a long battle with diabetes and end-stage renal failure. He was 71.

Hollywood writer Eric Weinberg has been arrested on multiple sexual assault charges.

Donald Trump threw a verbal punch at Fox News Saturday, calling the network that helped get him elected president “stupid” for booking liberal comedian Bill Maher, who said the network backed out of talks for him to appear on one of their shows when he balked at “only talking about the things we agree on.”Why Trump’s swipe at Maher? Well, apparently Maher’s remark that Ron DeSantis would make a better president than Donald Trump has gotten under the skin of the former POTUS… and the “Real Time” host is loving it.On Friday’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the host-comedian said that the Florida governor who has modeled his every move on Trump would be a better president than The Donald  because “he’s not certifiably insane.”“That’s a great one to start off with,” Maher told his audience. “You know what Ron DeSantis won’t be doing? He won’t be poop tweeting every day.

Bill Maher didn’t sidestep his thoughts about Donald Trump and his hope that another Republican would come to the forefront before the 2024 presidential election, going as far as saying that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would be better than Trump because “he’s not an insane person.”On Friday night’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the comedian-host jumped right in on what everyone interested in politics is talking about these days, and that’s the House January 6 committee hearings, which seem to be focusing on Trump’s involvement in the insurrection.“First of all, I actually have no issue with Trump being prosecuted, and I have a lot of issue with elites being left unaccountable for the crimes that they commit, number one. Number two, that’s not going to solve our problem,” guest panelist and podcast host Krystal Ball said.

Bill Maher has a beef with Millennials, specifically those who inhabit the newsroom of the Washington Post.

this,” Maher concluded with clips of more excessive gun violence in film and TV shows.You can watch Bill Maher’s entire “New Rules” in the video at the top.

In a bit of fortuitous timing, Bill Maher invited ex-Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway as a guest on this week’s “Real Time” — apparently having locked down her appearance weeks ago. But the episode came just a day after the first night of the Jan. 6 commission’s congressional hearings, making Conway’s appearance extremely timely.

In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, many people are crying out for someone to “do something.” Yet some of the loudest voices in that chorus are among the biggest hypocrites when it comes to creating an atmosphere that promulgates violence among the feeble minded.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen James Corden cuts ties with CBS’ “Late Late Show” next year, he may leave with more than people expected.CBS is considering replacing Corden’s distinct program with a multi-host panel, according to three people familiar with the matter, a sign of how late-night is changing as viewers sample the best of the programs via social media rather than watching them in their wee-hours’ time slot. Corden has decided to leave “The Late Late Show” in the spring of 2023.  A panel format could encompass a wide range of concepts, such as the news-roundtable program “Politically Incorrect,” which Bill Maher led on ABC late-nights between 1997 and 2002, or even the frenetic game-show stylings of “@midnight,” which aired in late night on Comedy Central between 2013 and 2017.

The latest “New Rules” editorial at the beginning of Bill Maher‘s late-night Friday talk show is drawing a lot of attention online on Saturday morning.

Bill Maher touched one of society’s third rails tonight on his HBO show Real Time, taking on the rise of the LGBTQ community in his “New Rules” editorial at the end of the show.

Rod Stewart claims his big nose was the reason he bedded so many women across his career.

slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars in March, and Dave Chappelle, who was tackled by a stranger at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this month — comedians across the country say violence from audience members is an increasing problem.Curtis Shaw Flagg, 37, president of The Laugh Factory in Chicago, told The Post he’s seen an alarming uptick in incidents over the past year, as people feel increasingly emboldened to lash out if a comic displeases them.“Not long ago, we had a patron stand up in the middle of a performance and say, ‘I will be outside waiting for you, I’m going to kill you,’” Flagg said. “After the show, we did a sweep of the outside and there was no sign of the guy, and the comic left unharmed. But nobody felt safer.”In recent weeks, the Laugh Factory chain — which has clubs in Hollywood, Las Vegas, Chicago, Reno and Long Beach — has added cameras and metal detectors to its venues, and in some locations, they’ve doubled their security personnel. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” Flagg said.

Bill Maher can’t understand what has happened to the world he once knew, as he lamented during Friday’s Real Time on HBO.

living. Until you’re born you’re not living.

Abortion is certainly no laughing matter, which makes it a delicate dance for a topical comedian to broach. Bill Maher worked both sides of the street on Friday night’s Real Time on HBO, starting with a few quips and then embarking on a serious discussion on the ultra-sensitive issue.

Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.

Bill Maher took aim at the Republican party in a big way on Friday night’s “Real Time,” saying that the GOP’s new platform is “making the world safe FROM democracy.”The Washington Post’s assertion that “democracy dies in darkness” is wrong, according to the comedian and late-night host. “It dies in plain sight because enough people think democracy is a luxury America can no longer afford. That is pretty much the position of the Republican party now, that you can vote for anyone you like but it doesn’t count if it’s not us,” he said during his New Rules segment.

It was old school week on Bill Maher’s Friday Real Time. Fresh off a week away while his Adulting special ran in his regular HBO time slot, Maher celebrated his return by bringing in an old friend from the comedy circuit.

both made speeches at the service with Max calling Tom his "brother". He went on to add that he will always remember Tom for his laugh.

Jada Pinkett Smith is back with her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris and daughter Willow Smith for a fifth season of their Facebook Watch chat show, Red Table Talk. The trailer, which dropped today (19 April), previews interviews with eight-time Grammy nominee Janelle Monáe, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger and her daughter Ireland Baldwin, the parents of Miss USA Cheslie Kryst who died by suicide earlier this year and victims of the Tinder Swindler.

Lily Mo Sheen looked dazzling on the red carpet in Los Angeles. The 5'4" beauty strolled along the red carpet in the form fitting belted black jacket with a plunging V-neckline and ankle pants with silver high heel sandals.

Video: You have to see Zendaya, Kim K & Paris Jackson at Paris . . . (Indy 100)Bill Maher asks Bella Thorne to tell joke about her dead dad .

this week, and the two critics apparently found common ground on the COVID-19 vaccine.“I don’t trust them to tell me the truth about what they put in there,” said Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time.” “Most people are giving us too much credit for where we are medically,” he said. “My point of view is we are still at the infancy of understanding how the human body works.

Bella Thorne joined Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast, where she told the “Real Time” host about how her struggles with anxiety led her to start her own cannabis company, Forbidden Flowers.

Amber Heard has celebrated her daughter’s first birthday, describing the past 12 months as “the greatest year”. The Aquaman actor shared the surprise news she had become a mother last July when she revealed she wanted to have a child “on my own terms”.

The Masked Singer, is off and running with Firefly already named the winner of the first round. The Masked Singer judgesThe competition continues tonight (Wednesday 30 March) at 8pm ET on Fox.

Bill Maher used a pointer to illustrate his lecture Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, as he gave a “Zapruder-ized” analysis of the Oscars moment that everyone can’t let go.