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Donald Trump Pulls Plug On $5M Bill Maher Lawsuit

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 1, 2013 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump

Well, it’s April 1st and we have our fool. After all his huffing and puffing, Donald Trump has unsurprisingly withdrawn his $5 million lawsuit against Bill Maher. The Celebrity Apprentice host had his lawyers file the request for dismissal with prejudice in LA Superior Court on March 29. Trump, whose NBC show hit a season low last night, first filed the breach of contract suit back in early February against the HBO host. He said that Maher broke a written promise that he’d give $5 million to the charities of Trump’s choice if The Donald could prove he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”

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Bill Maher On Donald Trump Lawsuit: “Suck It Up” – Video

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday February 9, 2013 @ 6:27pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Donald Trump

To remind you, Bill Maher told Jay Leno he’d give $5 million to the charities of Donald Trump’s choice if the Celebrity Apprentice host could prove he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan”. In the breach of contract lawsuit (… Read More »

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Donald Trump Acts Like Horse’s Ass Again

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 4:59pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump

Talk about stupid lawsuits. Donald Trump has actually sued talk-show host and (fellow?) comedian Bill Maher to pay up on a joke bet Maher offered last month on The Tonight Show. Mocking Trump’s similar offer asking President Obama to … Read More »

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Bill Maher Defends Clint Eastwood’s Shtick

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday September 1, 2012 @ 10:51pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Clint Eastwood chair, Obama chair

Bill Maher and guests debated Clint Eastwood on HBO’s Real Time Friday:

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HBO Renews ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ For Two More Seasons

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 9:50am PDTTags: Bill Maher, HBO, Real Time With Bill Maher
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Real Time With Bill Maher RenewedBill Maher‘s HBO series is sticking around not only for the upcoming presidential election but also for the following mid-term one. The pay cable network has signed a new three-year deal with Maher. … Read More »

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Obama Adviser Says Bill Maher’s Attacks On Women Are “Not Excusable,” But Rush Limbaugh’s Are Worse: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh

Bill Maher’s profane characterizations of women including Sarah Palin are “not excusable in any way,” President Obama’s chief election strategist David Axelrod says a day after word spread that he backed out of of an appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. But he adds in an interview … Read More »

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Obama Adviser David Axelrod Drops Plan To Appear With Bill Maher: Report

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 8:26am PDTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher

Barack Obama Bill MaherThere’s no explanation for why President Obama’s political strategist decided not to join the comedian on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. A campaign spokesman simply confirmed that Axelrod is “not scheduled to go on at this time,” despite promotions saying he would appear, website Politico reports. But we can make a pretty good guess as to what’s going on: Maher has become a lightening rod for critics on the right who argue that there’s a double standard in the recent barrage of attacks on Rush Limbaugh — who has been losing advertisers since he went on-air to call an advocate of employer health plan payments for contraceptives a “slut” and a “prostitute.” (He later apologized for using the words.) Maher put himself into the political fray recently when he donated $1M to PAC Priorities USA, a super PAC that supports the president. Last week Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren attacked Axelrod’s plan to appear with Maher, who has used virulent language to describe Sarah Palin. Van Susteren asked: “Is that the Obama price tag for decency? Give a million and you can be as nasty to women as you want?” Axelrod isn’t alone in his new skittishness about Maher. Read More »

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Bill Maher Makes $1 Million Obama Donation

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 10:51pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher

According to his longtime publicist Sarah Fuller, this happened tonight at the end of Bill Maher’s comedy special CrazyStupidPolitics: Live from Silicon Valley which streamed live on Yahoo. Maher brought out a check and pledged a personal donation of $1 million … Read More »

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Yahoo Launching Comedy Channel With Live Bill Maher Stand-Up

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 10:15am PSTTags: Bill Maher, Electus, Funny or Die, Yahoo

Yahoo announced today that it is launching a Yahoo Comedy Channel in February 2012 and has inked a deal with comedian Bill Maher to kick it off with a free, live stand-up performance. The content will include short-form videos and both licensed and original programming from the likes of Funny or Die, Broadway Video, Elecuts, and Yahoo! Studios, among others. The web giant recently launched a women’s slate that it said saw almost 10 million streams in its first month. Here’s a look a the content being prepared for the comedy launch; more programming will be added going forward, Yahoo said:

– CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live from Silicon Valley – On February 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. PT Bill Maher will host a live comedy show exclusively broadcasted online on Yahoo!. This will be Maher’s first live online broadcast ever. For the last nineteen years, Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on “Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central and ABC, and for the last nine years on HBO’s “Real Time, Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him twenty-seven Emmy nominations.

– Funny Or Die Presents “First Dates with Toby Harris” (Funny or Die) – starring Seth Morris, a series that takes us on a journey of ill-fated first dates with the lovable (sometimes deplorable) and always single Toby Harris. Set with Los Angeles as a back drop, each episode centers around a different woman and issue that will leave the audience bickering amongst themselves who was right and who was wrong, and how they would have handled it better! Love him or hate him, a date with Toby is a date you will always remember.

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Bill Maher & Seth MacFarlane Croon Sinatra

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Comedy, Frank Sinatra, Music, Seth MacFarlane

At a party tossed by Family Guy creator/runner Seth MacFarlane this week, MacFarlane was joined onstage by Bill Maher to belt out the Frank Sinatra tune Star. It turns out both guys have decent chops, even after a cocktail or two. Of course, that shouldn’t be a huge surprise in the … Read More »

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Blue Rider Press Running At Penguin

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 11:17am PDTTags: Bill Maher, Chris Elliott, David Rosenthal, Valerie Plame

Penguin Group’s general trade imprint it launched in November under president and publisher David Rosenthal now has a name: Blue Rider Press. It has acquired books by more than a dozen authors so far, the first of the titles to be released in the fall, Penguin announced today. Among its … Read More »

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Bill Maher Takes On TV Shows ‘Secret Millionaire’ And ‘Undercover Boss’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 13, 2011 @ 4:19pm PDTTags: ABC Secret Millionaire, Bill Maher, CBS Undercover Boss, HBO Real Time With Bill Maher

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Rachel Maddow & Bill Maher React To Keith Olbermann’s Ouster

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 10:29pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, HBO, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, NBC, Rachel Maddow
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MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow was a panelist on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last night and the host brought up Keith Olbermann exit, which had just been announced. Here is the duo’s exchange:

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The End: Final ‘Larry King Live’ Airs Tonight

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 16, 2010 @ 12:29am PSTTags: Bill Maher, Larry King, Larry King Final Show, Larry King Live, Larry King Stepping Down, Larry King Video, Ryan Seacrest, TV
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He may have gotten out of touch, he may have been famously unprepared for his interviews, and he may have been responsible for his show hemorrhaging viewers to average underwhelming 700,000 a night, but Larry King is still an institution. After more than 25 years and about 50,000 guests, the … Read More »

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