# Bill Maher is back on the air!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 21, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664 "2003-02-21T23:21:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664/21 "2003-02-24T17:48:58Z")

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It was ‘eh’. The best part of PI was that you knew that one (or two) panalists wasn’t taking it seriously and it gave the show a lighter air about it.

In this show the panalists are serious about it, and you get the sense that its more CNN and less entertainment anymore.

Hell, if I really wanted news and talking heads, I already have a bunch of newschannels to pick from.

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664/22 "2003-02-24T18:13:24Z")

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Big time agree with **ISiddiqui**.

I don’t like watching pundits like Coulter with Maher because they’ve shown up to play a part, and they’re going to play it. I prefer the old format’s ability to get (comparatively) normal people with unrehearsed opinions to talk about issues.

Coulter can’t shock me no matter how much she tries because I know that she’s studied all of the issues and determined her “eye-opening” stance on them ahead of time.

I would have liked more Larry Miller. I thought Silverman was really funny.

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**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664/23 "2003-02-24T21:21:04Z")

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It’s funny, **stolichnaya** , that people complained about the people that don’t know anything about politics (Hell, I might have been one of them ;)), but those people made the show see more off-the-cuff and lighter.

With the pundits you DO get the feeling they’ve rehearsed their positions before. I never noticed until now about Coulter, and how she purposely tries to shock.

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-is-back-on-the-air/156664/24 "2003-02-24T23:20:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tangent \*  
> \*\*That’s a damn shame. \*\*

You took the words right off my keyboard. This no-talent, brainless hack should be on local-access cable somewhere…or, if there were any justice, in a cardboard box under the freeway.

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