It's Fryday Alweddy! So who's on Bill Maher?

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[AlCzervik]

1. i think he's done for a few months.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. He just has the week off. nt

[babylonsister]

2. I think he's off tonight, back next week. And here's a link you can

bookmark:

atch an encore of Real Time this Friday at 11pm. Bill and his guests return for an all new live episode on March 21.

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/

[LisaM]

4. Don't know, but did you know he used to act on "Murder, She Wrote"?

Hallmark plays back to back MSW episodes every night. Twice in about the last three weeks I've seen Bill Maher on the show. In the first episode, he played a sleazy book agent who hired an actress to come to Cabot Cove and act like a witch related to some famed town witch named Prudence, so the writer he was representing could up sales.

Then last night, he was on again, this time he played a sleazy private investigator (his first line was when he took a picture of a philandering couple at a motel and said, "Smile and say, Cheating!" Later, he and his wife (Faith Ford, if you can believe it) try to claim a dead body off the tracks near Reno as their uncle Charlie so they can claim an inheritance (they don't get the loot, but they solve a murder).

It's very strange. He has long hair, too. The episodes must be from the late 80s, early 90s.

[MADem]

5. What a HOOT! I'll keep an eye peeled for those--thanks for that unusual tidbit of info! NT

[LisaM]

6. I know! It's so funny.

It was strange enough that he was on once, but twice?

And he's really not a terrible actor, either (at least for the level of acting it takes on MSW). I've noticed a lot of people recur in different roles.

[MADem]

7. Yes, it's almost like the CABOT COVE PLAYERS, that show!

Dick Van Dyke did more than a few! Neither he nor poor old Bill got a mention in the MSW WIKI article, though:

Recurring cast
Michael Horton as Grady Fletcher (1984–1995), Jessica's not-so-lucky favorite nephew, who (through no fault of his own) always seems to get in trouble with the law. After many romantic disasters, he gets married later in the series. In real life, Horton is married to actress Debbie Zipp, who played Grady's eventual wife, Donna Mayberry. The two had been married for many years before working together on Murder, She Wrote.
Jerry Orbach as Harry McGraw (1985–1991), an old-school private investigator who becomes friends with Jessica. Orbach was popular enough to garner his own, short-lived spinoff series in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw.
Len Cariou as Michael Hagarty (1985–1992), a British MI6 agent of Irish origin, who would appear when Jessica least expected him to drag her into a dangerous case. Cariou had previously starred with Lansbury in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the barber.
Keith Michell as Dennis Stanton (1988–1993), a former jewel thief turned insurance claims investigator, who always solves his cases using unusual methods, and sends a copy of the story to his friend Jessica afterwards.
Wayne Rogers as Charlie Garrett (1993-1995), a disreputable private investigator who usually gets into trouble and needs Jessica's help.

Guest stars
Main article: List of Murder, She Wrote guest stars
Many famous or soon-to-be-famous actors have had guest spots on Murder, She Wrote:

Rene Auberjonois ("Mourning Among the Wisterias", 1988)
Adrienne Barbeau ("Jessica Behind Bars", 1985; "The Bottom Line is Murder", 1987)
Robert Beltran ("Double Jeopardy", 1993; "Time to Die", 1994)
Sonny Bono ("Just Another Fish Story", 1988)
James Caviezel ("Flim Flam", 1995)
George Clooney ("No Laughing Murder", 1987)
Courteney Cox ("Death Stalks the Big Top", 1986)
Marcia Cross ("Ever After", 1992)
Linda Kelsey ("Capitol Offense", 1985; "Jessica Behind Bars", 1985; "Track of a Soldier", 1996)
Gerald McRaney ("A Quaking In Aspen", 1995)
Kate Mulgrew ("The Corpse Flew First Class", 1987; "Ever After", 1992; "The Dying Game", 1994)
Megan Mullally ("Coal Miner's Slaughter", 1988)
Leslie Nielsen ("My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean", 1985; "Dead Man's Gold", 1986)
Cynthia Nixon ("Threshold of Fear", 1993)
David Ogden Stiers ("Corned Beef & Carnage", 1986; "An Egg To Die For", 1994; "Death By Demographics", 1996)
Adrian Paul ("Danse Diabolique", 1992)
Joaquin Phoenix ("We're Off to Kill the Wizard", 1984)
Lynn Redgrave ("It's a Dog's Life", 1984)
Tom Selleck ("Magnum On Ice", 1986)
Billy Zane ("A Very Good Year for Murder", 1988)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_She_Wrote

[LisaM]

8. Megan Mullaley was in "Coal Miner's Slaughter"???? I just saw that one.

She must have looked different.

The George Clooney one was funny. He played the son of an ex-vaudevilian, engaged to the daughter of his father's former sidekick (Buddy Hackett).

I warn you, don't start watching, because you will get completely hooked.

[MADem]

9. I'm so old, I remember seeing them when they were NEW!

:rofl:

I wouldn't mind getting the DVD set for the vacation shack!!

[LisaM]

10. Oh, yeah, me too

Though I didn't watch so much the first couple of years. Good show, though!