Bill Maher, the pot-smoking pundit who performs March 15 in Atlanta, is beginning to look sort of prescient.
When he launched “Politically Incorrect” in 1993, his advisers told him that audiences would hate political comedy. The advisers guessed wrong. Political comedy built Maher’s career and has also made Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” and Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” wildly successful.
We chatted with him from his home office in Los Angeles, where he prepares his weekly HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and he discussed his previous evening’s performance in Birmingham, Ala. It was one of about 60 live shows he will do this year and his second gig in Alabama since January.
Q: They didn’t have you tarred and feathered?
A: The places you think are the reddest of the red are always the best crowds. There's always a lot more progressive or modern people than the public knows, in places they don't expect. Besides which, (Alabama) appreciates me not writing off the whole area.
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Event preview:
Bill Maher, 8 p.m., March 15, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, tickets, $96.50, $65.50, $54.50 and $42.50 plus applicable fees; 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, Atlanta; www.cobbenergycentre.com. 770-916-2800
