Bill Maher Net Worth

Bill Maher's Quotes

• The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.
• [from a 1998 "Mother Jones" interview] My generation didn't face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That's why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn't know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton's. He's more like one of us.
• [when asked what he liked about the Playboy mansion] The food is out of this world!
• I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn't go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.
• We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Interesting Facts about Bill Maher

1. Attended and graduated from Pascack Hills High School, Montvale, New Jersey (1974).
2. Received his Bachelor's degree in English from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1978).
3. Supported Ralph Nader during the 2000 presidential election.
4. Received a great deal of bad press for his comments after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center when he criticized the United States government. Subsequently, advertisers such as Sears and Federal Express pulled their ads and some television stations stop showing his program Politically Incorrect (1993). This eventually led to ABC canceling the show the following year. Commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Arianna Huffington and David Horowitz defended his right to free speech and said that his program should not be canceled.
5. On June 22, 2002, he received the Los Angeles Press Club's highest honor, the President's Award, for "championing free speech". The award was given six days after the final episode of Politically Incorrect (1993), Bill's social-satire show from which he was dismissed for politically incorrect statements about the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
6. Was a major supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. Though he traditionally supports Democrats, he threw his support behind Green Party candidate Ralph Nader (2000).
7. Very good friends with Ann Coulter, Arianna Huffington, Christopher Reid and Kato Kaelin.
8. Bill played Bob on an episode of Roseanne (1988). Ten years before the sitcom began, he played a character named Bob in the movie Street Fleet (1983), when he was an up-and-coming comedian.
9. Is a cousin of comedian Stubby Kaye.
10. Was good friends with Steve Allen.
11. Holds the record for most Emmy Award nominations without a win: 40 (as of 2019).
12. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on September 14, 2010.
13. Bill's paternal grandparents were William Aloysius Maher, Sr. and Mary Agnes O'Toole; they were born in New Jersey, both of them were of Irish ancestry. Bill's maternal grandparents, Nathan Berman and Stella Fuchs/Fox, were born in New York; Nathan's family were Jewish emigrants from Russia/Poland, while Stella's family was Hungarian Jewish.
14. As a youngster, Bill once worked at a branch of "Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips" restaurants and stocked shelves at an A&P Store.
15. Is a staunch political supporter of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
16. Early in his stand-up career, Bill once opened for Diana Ross at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada (1982).
17. Was a friend of Alan Thicke and Hugh Hefner.
18. Bill graduated from Cornell University with degrees in English and History in 1978, shortly before fellow broadcaster Keith Olbermann, who graduated in 1979.
19. Maintains a basketball court at his Los Angeles home.
20. Younger sister Kathy is a teacher.