Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Protesters

UPDATE, February 10, 2009: Bill Maher and Jay Leno, February 10
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UPDATE, November 19, 2008: Bill Maher and Jay Leno, November 19
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Bill Maher's appearance with Jay Leno on Tuesday's Tonight Show was offensive as usual.

Throughout the segment, Maher kept saying "bulls**t." Wow. How clever! The man's a comic genius.

Right at the beginning of Bill Maher's segment, a man started yelling. He was extremely loud. Apparently, he may have been screaming something about the writers' strike.

I'm not sure, but I thought he said, "Stop the censorship. Help save democracy."

Leno commented, "You know what's fascinating...he didn't even make his point. Does anybody know what he's talking about?"

Maher said, "I'm tempted to say that had something to do with the strike but I think that's just garden-variety bats**t that could have occurred at any night. And it was so entertaining and informative, wasn't it? It really enlightened us."


The protester was not shown on camera. It sounded like he continued to babble as he was removed from the studio.

Maher then went on to talk about the elections. He threw jabs at both the Dems and the Republicans.

Regarding the Republicans, he said "they have to concentrate on what all Republicans have in common -- They're gay. Aren't they?

"Not just garden-variety gay, but Mark Foley text messaging little boys gay; Ted Haggard having sex with prostitutes on meth gay; Larry Craig bathroom gay.

"I haven't seen this many self-loathing homosexuals since I left the Catholic Church."

What a hilarious guy!

Of course, Maher slammed President Bush.

He whined about Bush being considered a "genius" because the surge worked. He disagreed.

"We're not winning in Iraq. We lost that war when we invaded Iraq because it was a bad idea to begin with....

"Instead of invading Iran, why don't we just show him footage of one of his other disasters, Katrina or Iraq, and just tell him, 'There you go Godzilla, you did it again.' "

"...We can all pretend it was done, mission accomplished, and go home."

Later, another protester interrupted the segment. This time it was a woman yelling something about NBC.

I think she said, "GE, NBC. Put impeachment on TV."

Leno immediately went to commercial.

After the break, Leno talked about Maher having experience with protesters at his show. Maher bragged that he went into the audience and challenged them.

He boasted, "I kicked their ass."

Things settled down and Maher was able to get back into his typical religion-bashing shtick, targeting the Catholic Church.

They talked about how difficult the writers' strike has made it to book guests.

Maher said that in spite of the strike, the show must go on because people need to be entertained during this important election season.

He said, "People need to hear how silly the candidates are."

Maher had some positive words for Mike Huckabee, who has appeared as a guest with both Leno and Maher.

He said, "I like him. He's a very personable guy, but he's a religious fanatic.

"We're in a war with religious fanatics. The reason why we can't win this war with religious fanatics is because we have our own religious fanatics."

That allowed him to segue into mocking the Pope.

"He's just a big Catholic celebrity."

Leno, laughing hysterically, said, "You thought you had protesters before."

I don't know why I watch late night TV. It's a wasteland.
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Apparently, the protesters may have been there to demonstrate because Dennis Kucinich wasn't included in Tuesday's Democrat debate on MSNBC.

Yeah, well. Whatever.

Leno should have Kucinich as a guest.
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