Bill Maher Bio | Wiki
Bill Maher (William Maher) is a well-known American comedian, actor, political commentator, and television host. He became recognized due to the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher since 2000 and the same late-night show titled Politically Incorrect from 1993–2002, initially on Comedy Central and afterward on ABC.
He became also known due to his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. Bill targets various topics such as religion, political correctness as well as the mass media. Bill’s critical views of religion were the basis for the 2008 documentary film Religulous. In addition, Bill is a supporter of animal rights, having worked on the board of PETA since 1997, and works as an advisory board member of Project Reason.
Bill supports the legalization of cannabis, working on the advisory board of NORML. He positioned at 38 on Comedy Central’s 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time in 2005. on September 14, 2010, Bill earned a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2014 due to his work as an executive producer for Vice.
Bill Maher Age
Bill was born on January 20, 1956, in New York City, New York, in the United States. He is 68 years old. Bill celebrates his birthday on January 20, every year.
Bill Maher Height
He is a man of above-average stature. Bill stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m ).
Bill Maher Family
He was born in New York City, New York, in the United States to his parents. Bill’s father William Aloysius Maher Jr., worked as a network news editor and radio announcer, while his mother, Julie Maher (née Berman), served as a nurse. Bill was brought up in his Irish-American father’s Roman Catholic religion. During his early teens, Bill was unaware that his mother, whose family was from Hungary, was Jewish. His father stopped taking him and his sister Kathy Maher to Catholic church services when he was thirteen.
Bill Maher Wife
Bill started dating in 2003, Coco Johnsen a previous Playboy Cyber Girl. During the end of their 17-month relationship in November 2004, Johnsen sued Bill for US$9 million for “pain and suffering” for alleged “insulting, humiliating and degrading racial comments”. Bill began dating in 2005, a lady named Karrine Steffans who is a best-selling author and previous hip hop, model.
Bill Maher Education
He attended and completed his high school education in 1974 from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale. Later on, Bill went to Cornell University, where he double-majored in English and History, and in 1978 he graduated. He has said, “Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.”
Bill Maher Real Time | Show
He became the host, co-producer, and co-writer in 2003 of Real Time with Bill Maher, which is a weekly hour-long political comedy talk show on the cable television network HBO. HBO renewed Real-Time in 2016 through 2018, for its 15th and 16th seasons. In an interview, Bill told Terry Gross (on NPR’s Fresh Air) that he much prefers having serious and best-informed guests on his program, as opposed to the random celebrities that fleshed out Bill’s roundtable discussions on Politically Incorrect.
Along with his former show, Politically Incorrect, Bill starts Real Time with a comic opening monologue based upon ongoing events and other topical issues. Bill continues to a one-on-one interview with a guest, either in-studio or through satellite. After the interview, Bill sits with two or three panelists, usually consisting of pundits, authors, activists, actors, politicians, as well as journalists, for a discussion of the week’s events.
Real-Time show has also gained widespread praise. The show has also been nominated for over ten Primetime Emmy Awards and six Writer’s Guild awards. Bill and his co-producers were awarded in 2007, the Television Producer of the Year Award in various Television by the Producers Guild of America.
Bill Maher Tonight
In 2013, Bill became seen on The Tonight Show alongside Jay Leno and offered to pay $5 million to a charity if Donald Trump would produce his birth certificate to prove that Trump’s mom had not mated with an orangutan. Bill also said this reportedly in response to Trump having initially challenged President Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate, and having provided $5 million payable to a charity of Obama’s choice if Obama would produce his college applications, transcripts, as well as passport records.
Bill Maher Comedian
He served as host of the New York City comedy club Catch a Rising Star in 1979. He started appearing on Johnny Carson’s and David Letterman’s shows in 1982. Bill made limited television appearances such as on Sara in 1985, Max Headroom in 1987, Murder, She Wrote from 1989, 1990, as well as Charlie Hoover in 1991. Bill’s feature film start was in D.C. Cab in 1983. Later on, Bill was seen in Ratboy in 1986, House II: The Second Story in 1987, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death in 1988, Newhart in 1988, hosted the talk show Midnight Hour on CBS in 1990 as well as Pizza Man in 1991.
Bill Maher Vaccine
His claims about vaccines many times on ScienceBlogs, and when he received the Richard Dawkins Award in 2009, Gorski wrote it was inappropriate. Gorski again criticized Bill’s HBO interview in 2019, with the doctor Jay Gordon and Maher’s claims about vaccines (in particular, the influenza vaccine), spreading out vaccinations, and the possibility of a link between vaccines and autism, which also became debunked according to consensus science.
Bill Maher Net Worth
He became recognized due to the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher in 2003. Therefore, Bill has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Bill’s net worth is $5 million.
How Tall Is Bill Maher
Bill is a man of above-average stature who stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m ).
How Old Is Bill Maher
Bill is a 68-year-old who was born on January 20, 1956, in New York City, New York, in the United States.
Bill Maher Social Media Account
Twitter – @billmaher