mayorjimmy you are an idiot. Stewart and Maher are taking a corrupt politician to task (since none of the so called journalists are professional enough to do it) - if you think the world will suddenly become fair and just and corrupt free just because Bush leaves office you must be smoking some of Mahers dope (and there will certainly be millions who continue to worship an unprovable supernatural being)

You think Maher is in trouble with no writers? what are he and Jon Stewart going to do when Bush isn't in office anymore? They built their entire careers off ripping on Bush. They better enjoy this last year while they still can. Cuz when they don't have a fire to throw gasoline on, people are going to wake up and say "wait, why have we been listening to these guys again? it sure as hell wasn't for the comedy or intellectual conversations."

'New Rules' is probably one of the 10 best scripted minutes on TV today. Both the opening monologue and the New Rules are done via TelePromTer, so Maher relies heavily on his terrific team of writers.


This strike really sucks. I don't see any real progress and it just seems like a game of chicken. And that's probably what the WGA and the studios want. But in the end, its the faithful viewers who never come back and find something better. (However, I will always be a big RTBM fan!)

I'll miss the New Rules, but it'll be great to have him back. Going out into the audience, though? Bill kind of has a general contempt for people, doesn't he? Having him interact with civilians in the crowd is going to be pretty awkward. But that may make good television.

I was confused when this show went dark. I thought they could easily ditch the written gimmicks and extend the discussions. Together the written jokes take about 15 minutes of the 60 minute show instead of 22 minutes of the 45 minute late night shows.
I decided that it meant the (sometimes) witty comments he tosses about in the discussions are manufactured for him.

I hope more 9/11 conspiracy theorists show up. That was awesome.