As Salman Rushdie fights for his life after being brutally stabbed Friday while delivering a lecture onstage, Bill Maher spoke out about the circumstances underlying the attack on the author.
Rushdie, Maher’s friend and frequent guest on his politically charged HBO talk show “Real Time”, has been living under a fatwa since 1989, when Iranian ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued an order for Muslims to kill Rushdie due to the alleged blasphemy contained in his book The Satanic Verses.
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“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie told the New York Times, revealing that doctors had placed Rushdie on a ventilator in order to breathe. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” Wyle said.
Maher addressed Rushdie’s attack on Friday’s edition of...
Rushdie, Maher’s friend and frequent guest on his politically charged HBO talk show “Real Time”, has been living under a fatwa since 1989, when Iranian ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued an order for Muslims to kill Rushdie due to the alleged blasphemy contained in his book The Satanic Verses.
Read More: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked Before Lecture On New York Stage
“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie told the New York Times, revealing that doctors had placed Rushdie on a ventilator in order to breathe. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” Wyle said.
Maher addressed Rushdie’s attack on Friday’s edition of...
- 8/13/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
“This is not funny at all,” Dave Chappelle said in response to George Floyd’s death and the resurgence of #BlackLivesMatter protests in a surprise Netflix special that the streaming service dropped on YouTube early Friday.
“This man kneeled on a man’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that? This kid thought he was gonna die, he knew he was gonna die,” Chappelle said at the top of the special, which was posted to Netflix’s “Netflix Is A Joke” YouTube page. “He called for his dead mother. I’ve only seen that once before in my life. My father on his death bed called for his grandmother. When I watched that tape, I understood this man knew he was gonna die. People watched it, people filmed it. And for some reason, that I still don’t understand, all these f—ing police had their hands in their pockets.
“This man kneeled on a man’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that? This kid thought he was gonna die, he knew he was gonna die,” Chappelle said at the top of the special, which was posted to Netflix’s “Netflix Is A Joke” YouTube page. “He called for his dead mother. I’ve only seen that once before in my life. My father on his death bed called for his grandmother. When I watched that tape, I understood this man knew he was gonna die. People watched it, people filmed it. And for some reason, that I still don’t understand, all these f—ing police had their hands in their pockets.
- 6/12/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
As John Mayer ambles over to his marijuana vaporizer – a small wooden device that emits a UFO-like blue glow in his darkened Pittsburgh hotel room – he shares a passing thought. “I bought myself a Playgirl once,” he says, taking a robust, smokeless hit of weed from a plastic tube.
“I just loved the feeling that there was a porno you really, really weren’t supposed to have,” Mayer adds. He laughs as he sprawls his six-foot-three body onto a couch, his brown eyes unfocused. It’s around midnight, less than...
“I just loved the feeling that there was a porno you really, really weren’t supposed to have,” Mayer adds. He laughs as he sprawls his six-foot-three body onto a couch, his brown eyes unfocused. It’s around midnight, less than...
- 9/21/2006
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
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