Bill Maher Returns Writerless
By Dane • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: 2 Column LEFT, Comedy, HBO
Bill Maher returns to HBO on Friday with new episode of his Emmy nominated talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher”. Like his late night compatriots Maher will return without pre-written material, and instead will rely on his stand-up experience to play off the audience, and it will be missing will be the show-closing segment “New Rules”.
As a member of the WGA, Maher is prohibited from working from any pre-written material, which recently landed Jay Leno in hot water for admitting to writing his own monologues when The Tonight Show returned to late-night. At present, the only hosts who can write jokes are Letterman and Craig Ferguson, whose production company struck and independent deal with the WGA.
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