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Presiding over one of his famously incongruous assemblages of guests on a recent evening, Bill Maher got on the subject of failed second-term presidencies. On the panel that night was Charlton Heston, who casually inserted that Ronald Reagan "won the cold war" during his last years in office. Maher's blood pressure started to mountain-climb. "He won the cold war? Please! This was strictly a Reagan project?...I would say Vietnam was the biggest thing that won the cold war..." The conversation shifted but Maher's mind didn't. Later he cut off one of his other guests...
Worked up isn't a state we often find late-night network talk-show hosts in, unless, of course, they happen to be in the presence of Isabella Rossellini's cheekbones. Affecting neither David Letterman's iconically apathetic cool nor Jay Leno's rote giddiness, Maher has drawn a surprisingly large audience to his witty roundtable show, which left its original home, Comedy Central, last November...
...Maher, a stand-up comic and the son of an NBC news editor, conceived the show as a nightly dream salon in which discourse on the day's events boiled but never simmered. Critics of PI have lamented that the show, like Crossfire or The McLaughlin Group, too often turns into a forum of white noise where few substantive ideas are presented. This seems akin to disliking Jenny McCarthy because she doesn't do Strindberg. Half hours of current-affairs television--especially those that feature Meat Loaf as a recurring guest--are not meant to leave us feeling as though...
...essence PI is a game show with guests competing for the title of most wry. This free-market environment, though, does not guarantee that the show is always funny. Often whole episodes go by without any amusing moments occurring apart from Maher's opening monologue (which a team of comedy writers produces) or the mere sight of people like G. Gordon Liddy and rapper Coolio seated together...
Memo to Jay Leno, David Letterman, Bill Maher and Dennis Miller: Watch your backs--a new political humorist has arrived on the scene who is funnier than you'll ever be. His name is Ward Connerly...