Maher Audience a Real Pain [View All]

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Source: FilmStew.com

There was Bill Maher, chatting with his Friday, October 19th panel – L.A. Times and Time Magazine columnist Joel Stein, TV host Chris Mattews and Texas Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee – when the perils of doing one of television’s few live programs reared its ugly head. From the audience, a male individual started shouting incomprehensibly about the idea that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were in fact controlled government explosions. (Maher has vocally opposed that view.)

Sure enough, Maher then bounded from the stage and headed up the stage left aisle, as the man tried to unfurl a banner and CBS security finally showed up to haul him away. But it wasn’t over quite yet. As Maher returned to his chair and observed, "Is it that hard to throw someone out of a building?", a woman’s shouting voice could then be heard, accusing the comedian of 'cowardice.' "I’ll kick your ass out of here too," Maher promised in a very assured, non-gender specific way.

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