Bill Maher

Attended and graduated from Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, New Jersey.

Received his Bachelors degree in English from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Supported Ralph Nader during the 2000 presidential election.

Received a great deal of bad press for his comments after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center when he criticized the United States government. Subsequently, advertisers such as Sears and Federal Express pulled their ads and some television stations stop showing his program "Politically Incorrect" . This eventually led to ABC canceling the show the following year. Commentators such as Rush Limbaugh , Arianna Huffington and David Horowitz defended his right to free speech and said that his program should not be canceled.

On June 22, 2002, he received the Los Angeles Press Clubs highest honor, the Presidents Award, for "championing free speech". The award was given six days after the final episode of "Politically Incorrect" , Bills social-satire show from which he was dismissed for politically incorrect statements about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Was a major supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. Though he traditionally supports Democrats, he threw his support behind Green Party candidate Ralph Nader .

Very good friends with Ann Coulter , Arianna Huffington , Christopher Reid and Kato Kaelin.

Bill played Bob on an episode of "Roseanne" . Ten years before the sitcom began, he played a character named Bob in the movie D.C. Cab , when he was an up-and-coming comedian.

Is a cousin of comedian Stubby Kaye.

Was good friends with Steve Allen.

Holds the record for most Emmy Award nominations without a win: 32 (as of 2013).

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on September 14, 2010.

Bills paternal grandparents were William Aloysius Maher, Sr. and Mary Agnes OToole; they were both born in New Jersey, both of them had Irish ancestry. Bills maternal grandparents, Nathan Berman and Stella Fox, were both born in New York; Nathans family were Jewish immigrants from Russia/Poland, while Stellas family was Hungarian Jewish.

As a youngster, Bill once worked at a branch of "Arthur Treachers Fish & Chips" restaurants and stocked shelves at an A&P Store.

Is a staunch political supporter of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Early in his stand-up career, Bill once opened for Diana Ross at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Friends with Alan Thicke , and Hugh Hefner.

Bill graduated from Cornell University with degrees in English and History in 1978, shortly before fellow broadcaster Keith Olbermann , who graduated in 1979.

We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away.

[on drug-troubled mayor Marion Barry] (He) promised to get drugs off the,street, one gram at a time.

Ladies and gentlemen, on September 11 2001, America was attacked by a,squad of Saudi Arabians, working out of Germany, Pakistan and,Afghanistan. And by that I mean, we were attacked by Iraq.

The Pope is consistently pro-life, I am consistently pro-death.

Democrats see health care as a right but Republicans see it as a,product.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of,You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s what they don’t know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I’d join the Tea Party.

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t you take Pat Robertson with him?” I don’t want to say Jerry was disliked by the gay community, but tonight in New York City, at exactly eight o’clock, Broadway theaters along the Great White Way turned their lights up for two minutes. I know you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I think we can make an exception, because speaking ill of the dead was kind of Jerry Falwell’s hobby. He’s the guy who said AIDS was God’s punishment for homosexuality and that 9/11 was brought on by pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, and the ACLU—or, as I like to call them, my studio audience. It was surreal watching people on the news praise Falwell, followed by a clip package of what he actually said—things like:"Homosexuals are part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated. " "If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being. " "Feminists just need a man in the house. " "There is no separation of church and state. " And, of course, everyone’s favorite: "The purple Teletubby is gay. "Jerry Falwell found out you could launder your hate through the cover of “God’s will”—he didn’t hate gays, God does. All Falwell’s power came from name-dropping God, and gay people should steal that trick. Don’t say you want something because it’s your right as a human being—say you want it because it’s your religion. Gay men have been going at things backward. Forget civil right, and just make gayness a religion. I mean, you’re kneeling anyway. And it’s easy to start a religion. Watch, I’ll do it for you. I had a vision last night. The Blessed Virgin Mary came to me—I don’t know how she got past the guards—and she told me it’s time to take the high ground from the Seventh-day Adventists and give it to the twenty-four-hour party people. And that what happens in the confessional stays in the confessional. Gay men, don’t say you’re life partners. Say you’re a nunnery of two. “We weren’t having sex,officer. I was performing a very private mass. Here in my car. I was letting my rod and my staff comfort him. ”One can only hope that as Jerry Falwell now approaches the pearly gates, he is met there by God Himself, wearing a Fire Island muscle shirt and nut-hugger shorts, saying to Jerry in a mighty lisp, “I’m not talking to you.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

New Rule: America has every right ot bitch about gas prices suddenly shooting up. How could we have known? Oh, wait, there was that teensy, tiny thing about being warned constantly over the last forty years but still creating more urban sprawl, failing to build public transport, buying gas-guzzlers, and voting for oil company shills. So, New Rule: Shut the fuck up about gas prices.

This is the opposite of the free market.

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?,Men are only as loyal as their options.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. .