If you watch "Real Time With Bill Maher" on HBO these days, you may have noticed something odd: the audience booing the host.
It happens almost every week now, usually after Maher says something critical of the president. Of course, six months ago this same audience would have cheered wildly had Maher ripped the then-occupant of the White House. Now, you'd swear from the reaction that he'd violated some taboo too weird even for pay cable.
Maher knows this. And he knows the viewers know it. And he wants to make one thing perfectly clear.
"That"—the stand-up act—"is just an entirely different animal than the television show."
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