Comedian Bill Maher Comes to Washington Pavilion This Fall

Bill Maher, the brilliant political commentator who set the boundaries of where funny political talk can go on American television now stretches those limits in an evening of hard-hitting, side-splitting stand up humor on Sunday, September 13, 7:00 p.m., at Washington Pavilion.

Best known for hosting HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and previously ABC's Politically Incorrect, Maher's combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs has earned him 26 Emmy nominations. Tickets to his performance go on sale Friday, April 24, at 9:30 AM.

For the last seventeen years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. "Religulous," his uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, directed by Larry Charles ("Borat"), has become the seventh highest grossing documentary ever.

In addition to his television program - which has featured such regular visitors as John Edwards, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Arianna Huffington, Alec Baldwin and Michael Moore - Maher has written four bestsellers: "True Story," "Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits," "When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden" and most recently, "New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer."

Maher started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1979, and still performs at least fifty dates a year in Las Vegas and in sold out theaters all across the country. Three of his nine stand-up specials for HBO - 2007's "The Decider," 2005's "I'm Swiss," as well as his most recent, the hilarious, "Bill Maher ... But I'm Not Wrong," - have been nominated for Emmy awards.

Maher was born in New York City, raised in River Vale, N.J. and went to Cornell University. He now resides in Los Angeles.

Tickets for An Evening with Bill Maher on Sunday, September 13 at 7:00 p.m., are priced $85, $78, $68, $55 and $20, and are available at the Washington Pavilion Box Office, by phone at 605-367-6000 and online at washingtonpavilion.org.

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