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Copyright 2011 by Bill Maher

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the authors rights. Purchase only authorized editions. Published simultaneously in Canada

Pages 35154 constitute an extension of this copyright page.

ISBN : 978-1-101-55215-5

Some portions of this material have appeared in slightly different form on HBOs Real Time ,
in the Los Angeles Times , and on Salon.com and The Huffington Post.

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

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To Jasmine

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Before we get to the fun stuff, I want to acknowledge and thank the people who make a project like this possible, fun, and painless.

David Rosenthal, the publisher of this tome. In 1993, I was on television for ten seconds when I asked this editor at Random House if that was credential enough to get my novel published. He saw a real book there, and I maintain to this day that True Story is a real book. I will forever be his fan for being my fan, and its a pleasure to repay his faith all these years later with this cash cow.

Everyone at Penguin Books who has the savvy in actually assembling a book and marketing it, and, you know, grammar and stuff.

The Real Time writers who wrote so many of the jokes in this book: Chris Kelly, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Matt Gunn, Adam Felber, and Danny Vermont. To do a once-a-week weekly wrap-up show like Real Time right, I need to come in to the office every daythough I wouldnt strictly need to have a writers meeting every day. But why would I ever miss the most reliably fun and enlightening part of my day?

My invaluable team of producers, Sheila Griffiths, Scott Carter, and Dean Johnsen. Not only do they make the trains run on time, but they are such decent human beings it provides the essential counterbalance to the snarky host.

My script coordinator and keeper of records and dead bodies, Joaquin Torres, for the vital job of helping me to pull together, order, and edit the material for this book, all while somehow reading my handwriting. And sometimes my mind.

Real Time coproducer Matt Wood, for his outstanding work accessing, assembling, and sometimes creating the images for this book. My old job.

My longtime manager, Marc Gurvitz, and agent, Steve Lafferty, who had to do almost no work to sell this no-brainer of a cake project, but who have... oh, all right, at other times proven themselves useful.

My publicists, CeCe Yorke and Sarah Fuller, and everyone else at True Public Relations who does such a great job covering up all my scandals so as not to overshadow when I have something to sell.

From the executive suites of HBO, Nancy Gellermy Saint Peter, the rock upon which I built my church all those years ago (you know, metaphorically speaking)and Richard Plepler and Mike Lombardo, who provide the real estate, and the nurturing of it, without which New Rules would just be a YouTube clip of a podcast of a tweet.

The fans! Duh... the people for whom I have such a special love because in a country thats gone as batshit crazy as this one, it is some comfort to know there are people who think in a similar fashion. By the way, anyone who comes up to me and says, I watch you every night, youre not a real fan, because Im not on every night!

And last but not least, Billy Martin is the Real Time head writer and the man who thought up the New Rules concept, and try as I might, I cant seem to cut him out of these books. Just as well, since hes the one who gits er done, with his usual creativity and ruthless efficiency.

FOREWORD

New Rule: People who read a books foreword are anal. Especially this books foreword. Its a joke book. What am I supposed to say? Enjoy? Dont spill your Mr Pibb? Careful not to get a paper cut? If you need a pep talk or some insight from me before diving in, maybe youre not ready for word books. Maybe you should stick to the kind of books that have pictures you can color.

Okay, Im sorry. Its more than just a joke book, and Im glad you took a moment to check in with me before proceeding. What youre holding is a collection of hundreds of my favorite New Rules and essays, some performed on the show and many others never before seen on TVnot because they suck, but for a variety of reasons, like: (a) its a particularly filthy, dirty, potty-mouthed rule about fetish porn or edible panties or rhinoceros scrotums, and that week there was someone on our panel who would be appalled by it, like a congressman from a conservative district, or a clergyman. Or, you know, a woman.

Or (b) it might have been a terrific New Rule, but that week we had other good ones on the same subject. Although we have our share of viewers who are news junkies, I treat the show that we do live on Friday night as a catch-up show for those who might not have had the time during the week to see the news, because they work hard, have hobbies, or forgot to use birth control a couple of times in the 90s. So I try to cover as many of the important subjects as possible, either in the monologue, with the guests, or in the New Rules, and so its survival of the fittest by topic.

Or (c) sometimes I read my writers New Rules submissions completely baked and just picked the wrong ones.

As for the essaysor what we call our editorialwhich are the much longer final New Rules that conclude the show: I cant lie, there are no new ones here; they were all done on the air. But, I must immodestly say, I think a lot of them bear repeating. They take three minutes to read on air, but I spend six or eight hours over the course of the week writing and editing them to get a show-ender that, I hope, both makes a unique point and does so in a funny way. Its the part of the show Im most proud of and that I dont think you can see anywhere else on television. So please dont read this part of the book on the toilet or youll break my heart.

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