I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

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.