I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Apatheist, stand-up comedian, television host, social critic, political commentator, author and actor                          

Selected Works:

Bibliography:

Does Anybody Have a Problem With That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits - 1996
Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect - 1997
True Story : A Novel - 2002
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism - 2003
Keep the Statue of Liberty Closed: The New Rules - 2004
New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer - 2005

Filmography -

Religulous - 2008 - Himself
The Aristocrats - 2005 - Himself
Tomcats - 2001 - uncredited - Carlos
EDtv - 1998- Himself
Bimbo Movie Bash - 1997
Don't Quit Your Day Job - 1996 - Comic's Table
Say What? - 1992 - Host
Pizza Man - 1991 - Elmo Bunn
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death - 1989 - aka Jungle Heat or Piranha Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death - Jim
Out of Time - 1988 - Maxwell Taylor
House II: The Second Story - 1987 - John
Ratboy - 1986 - Party Guest
Club Med - 1986 - Rick
Rags to Riches - 1986 - aka Foley and the Girls From St. Mags - Freddie
D.C. Cab - 1983 - aka Street Fleet - Bob

Television:

Bill Maher: The Decider - 2007 - HBO - Himself
I'm Swiss - 2005 - HBO - Himself
Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home - 2003 - HBO - Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher - HBO - 2003–Present - Host
Just For Laughs - CBC - The Comedy Network - 2002 - Himself
Bill Maher: Be More Cynical - 2000 - HBO - Himself
Politically Incorrect - Comedy Central and ABC - 1994–2002 - Host
Bill Maher: The Golden Goose Special - 1997 - HBO - Himself
Married With Children - Fox - 1992-1993 - season 7 episode "You can't miss" "Adam Gold" Host of You can't miss show
Charlie Hoover - 1991 - Elliot
The Midnight Hour - 1990 - Host
Max Headroom - 1987 - season 2 episode 5, Whackets - Haskel
Hard Knocks - 1987
Roseanne Dirty Picture Photographer
Murder She Wrote Guest role - Season 6
Sara - 1985 - Marty Lang

Special appearances:

MADtv - 2005 - Himself
The Man Show - Himself - cameo in "Jimmy's New Wife" segment.

Host of Politically Incorrect
Host of Real Time with Bill Maher 1993-1997 on Comedy Central and later on ABC - 2002

Bill Maher and director Larry Charles teamed up to make the feature film Religulous - 2008

Advisory board member of author Sam Harris's 'The Reason Project.'                          

Mother Julie Berman 
Father  William Maher, Sr.                          

Awards:

Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction, 
Two CableACE awards for Best Talk Show Series Genesis Award for Best Television Talk Show.

Bill Maher earned numerous award nominations for his producing, writing and hosting of Politically Incorrect, including ten Emmy nominations, two TV Guide nominations, and two Writers Guild nominations.

Bill Maher received the President's Award for "Championing Free Speech" from the Los Angeles Press Club.

Real Time has earned more than ten Primetime Emmy Awards and six Writer's Guild awards

 Maher and his co-producers were awarded the Television Producer of the Year Award in Variety Television - 2007

Real Time was released as an audio CD, along with another CD entitled Bill Maher's New Rules which features clips, segments and teasers from Real Time. Starting with Episode 67 (2-23-06), Real Time became available in the USA on iTunes as a free weekly audio podcast.

Maher holds the record for the most Emmy nominations without a win, having been nominated on 22 occasions and not winning once. 

Eleven of the nominations were for Politically Incorrect, while nine were for Real Time. 

The other two were nominations for two of his HBO comedy specials: Bill Maher: I'm Swiss and Bill Maher: The Decider.

Maher was on the board of judges one year for the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award.