subject: Bill Maher Tickets - Funny With A Side Of Controversy (and Leave The Eggs) [print this page] Bill Maher loves his International House of Pancakes (IHOP), but he loves cage free chicken eggs more. The comedian and television host recently filmed a new video as a friend and supporter of the Humane Society, supporting THE HSUS's campaign to urge IHOP to start cooking with cage free eggs. "You may come hungry to IHOP, but you shouldn't leave happy...forget pancakes, IHOP now stands for the "International House of Pain."
The short video give brutal details about the chicken's home life when not cage free, and suggests that the California chain is actually acting illegally in their own home state. Maher has long been an animal advocate, particularly in the Hollywood offices where he has presented at the Genesis Awards several times and created another short in support of last year's California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act (Prop 2). This year Maher will be plastering his ideas on anyone who's listening at his concerts, so if you want to hear his new views, check online, where Bill Maher tickets can be found.
Maher's HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher has been renewed for its eighth season, and will begin filming mid-February, while the political chatterer heats up the national airwaves in January with concerts in California, New York, Connecticut, Texas and others. HBO's show returns one hour earlier on Feb. 19, with executive producers Maher, Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Brad Grey, Marc Gurvitz and Billy Martin on board.
"Bill Maher is a vital and provocative observer who cuts through the media clutter to offer a uniquely thoughtful outlook on the world," HBO Entertainment's Senior Vice President Nancy Geller said. The show originally previewed on Comedy Central as Politically Incorrect, but moved to ABC from 1997 to 2002 before thriving on HBO, where last year's average ratings were at over a million viewers.
Maher was born in New York City and raised in River Vale, New Jersey. After graduating from Cornell University, he pursued his interest in comedy by doing the standup comedy circuit around the country through the '80s and '90s. Eventually he struck gold when his television show Politically Incorrect, a sort-of vaudeville affair of newsmakers, entertainers and politicians talking about political issues, found a wide audience. Though his overly offensive remarks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City eventually forced Politically Incorrect off the air (after threats came from the White House's press secretary Ari Fleicher), Maher returned with the HBO Real Time with Bill Maher.
With the success of his more subdued HBO show, Maher opened up the market for writing, like the novella New Rules, which also featured an audio book. The newest to appear is Religulous, a 2008 film that tackles organized religion. "My motivation is to make people laugh," he said during CBS's Early Morning Talk Show on CBS. "Religion, to me, is a giant elephant in the room of comic gold...it's a comedy, it's not a documentary." The film, just like Maher's HBO show and comedy concerts, found as much controversy as it did a solid following, helping to keep Bill Maher tickets a hot commodity.
