10 Questions for Bill Maher

Do you think your online audience will be very different, and what might you have to do to cater to that crowd? One reason I'm doing this is the fact that the Amazon audience is my audience--it's a big bookstore, after all. As far as catering to online, I've never really catered on TV. I don't know why I should start on the computer.

Who has been your most provocative guest? No one more than the host. I wish more people were provocative. I wouldn't ever say there's censorship in this country. But there's a lot of peer pressure. Because when anybody says anything that's the least bit feather ruffling, everybody just goes nuts. If anybody in this country is forced to undergo a single moment of discomfort, the person who caused it just must go away.

On the topic of discomfort, can you explain one of your early film roles, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? It's about radical feminists who are eating men in the jungle. I was the bumbling guide. I have fond memories of spending two months with my shirt off in the jungle. It was me and two babes. It was kind of fun.