I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

a network news editor and radio announcer. Maher was raised in River Vale New Jersey and graduated from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale in 1974. S.

Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC. In 2005 Maher ranked at number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time.