Posts Tagged ‘bill maher’

Sam Harris on Bill Maher tonight

Friday, August 21st, 2009

DVR Alert!  Sam Harris will appear tonight at 10pm on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO.  No information on what topics they’ll cover, but it should be good.

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Podcast #59 – Bill Maher Stand-up Tour

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

David gives us a report on Bill Maher’s stand-up tour; specifically, Maher’s recent appearance at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.

We also give listeners a heads-up on several upcoming events, including:

Atheist Alliance International 2009 Convention (Oct 2-4 in Los Angeles) featuring Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Brian Keith Dalton (”Mr. Deity”), Lawrence Krauss, Eugenie Scott and more.  (Say “hi” to David Driscoll, since he’ll be in attendance as well.)

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Mos Dumb

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Rapper/actor/whatever Mos Def has entered my unofficial list of World’s Stupidest Celebrities–by which I do not mean he has a low IQ.  I mean that he seems to let his desires override his intellect, and is unwilling to admit when he’s been proven wrong, that he now knows more than he did five minutes ago, and move on.  Mr. Def is in no danger of knocking Sherri Shepherd off the top of the pyramid, but if he works hard enough…well, here’s an excerpt from his recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.  It’s not every day you see a guy get owned by Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchens at the same time.  Fabulous.  [This clip may be removed by YouTube soon, so if you get a bad link...sorry!]

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Religulous on DVD!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Are you one of the unfortunate souls who missed out on seeing Bill Maher’s documentary Religulous during its limited theatrical run in late 2008?  That’s too bad: Maher’s religion-is-dangerous exposé became the seventh highest grossing documentary of all time, bringing in over $13M in 11 weeks (it kicked the snot out of Ben Stein’s not-so-thinly-veiled creationist propaganda piece Expelled, earning nearly twice what Expelled made in half the time and in half the theaters).

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Religulous comes to DVD (if not to Jesus)

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In case it didn’t play in your local cineplex (or even if it did and you just want to own a copy), you’ll soon have your chance to see comedian/social commentator Bill Maher’s documentary Religulous on DVD!  To be released by Lionsgate on February 17th, Religulous is Maher’s global sampling of just how weird – and dangerous – religion can be.  You can pre-order right now at Amazon.com.

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Maher’s Religulous Approaches $7M

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Comedian/pundit Bill Maher’s anti-religion documentary Religulous topped $6.7M at the end of its second weekend of release, expanding from 502 screens to 568.  (For those keeping score, Ben Stein’s creationist apologetic Expelled earned $7.7M in eight weeks on over 1,000 screens.)

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Podcast #30 – Religulous

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

We discuss Religulous, the new documentary starring comedian Bill Maher (best known for his politically-oriented roundtable talk shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher).  The early box office returns show Religulous making $3.5 million its first weekend on 500 screens (compare this to Ben Stein’s Expelled, which made $3 million on 1,000 screens).

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Religulous

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

TV Comedian Bill Maher hits the big screen October 3rd with a funny but unflinching expose on the nuttiness of religion.

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