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Maher Finds Nothing Funny About Protest During Show

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 21, 2007

Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher helped security remove a rowdy protester from the studio Friday night during a live taping of his weekly HBO show, 'Real Time with Bill Maher.'

Maher was talking science during one of his weekly panel discussions when a protester in his audience stood up, held up a smuggled-in sign reading: '9/11 is a cover up fraud.' He shouted comments to the same effect.

The host tried to shout down the audience member, who only became more agitated.

'Do we have some expletive security in this building,' Maher yelled, 'or do I have to come down there and kick his expletive?'

When security reached the man's aisle and the man resisted leaving, Maher ran into the seats and helped them push him out the door, shouting, 'Out! Out! Out!'

Surfing Champion Detained After Scuffle

Police detained eight-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater in Jerusalem early Saturday after a scuffle with photographers who were trying to take pictures of him with an Israeli supermodel, police said.
Israeli photographers were waiting outside as the American surfer and model Bar Rafaeli left a hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya before dawn Saturday, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Slater pushed the cameramen in an effort to prevent them from taking pictures, a photographer at the scene told Channel Two TV.

'A brawl broke out and Slater was taken for questioning and later released,' Rosenfeld said.

Today's Birthdays

TV judge Judy Sheindlin is 65. Actress Carrie Fisher is 51. Actor Jeremy Miller ('Growing Pains') is 31.

Source: The Associated Press

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