Real Time with Bill Maher

The Emmy Awards, much like their film, theater and music counterparts, are annually greeted with both excited buzz and exhausted indifference.

Maz Jobrani was so excited to be invited to give a speech at the campus’s spring 2017 commencement ceremony that he accepted the offer right away — but as the date approached, he “began to lose sleep.”

Comedian Bill Maher urged free thinking and reflected on the meaning of liberalism in his address at UC Berkeley’s Saturday commencement, as several students in the audience held up signs criticizing the comedian for his controversial remarks on religion.

Two weeks after the creation of an online petition demanding the campus disinvite comedian and TV host Bill Maher from speaking at the December commencement ceremony, student government officials and administrators sought to address the ongoing controversy at the ASUC Senate meeting Wednesday.

Comedian and TV host Bill Maher announced Friday his intent to speak at UC Berkeley’s December commencement ceremony, despite opposition from some campus groups.

On Thursday evening, more than 60 students and alumni gathered at a town hall to discuss the selection of TV personality Bill Maher as the December graduation speaker.

In response to the announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley’s fall commencement, an online petition started Thursday demanding that the campus rescind its invitation.