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watching you now Dan on Maher... some of those guys look like they want to eat you for lunch.... not DL.. but the guy in the cowboy hat????

Still, a big fat "Oh Snap" is deserved for your timing.

why didn't you liveblog this??? who the hell is that guy in the cowboy hat??? and who the hell is that John Fund guy???

the footage of you in South Carolina was rich.

you're such a cutie pie, Dan!

It was a pleasant surprise to find you on Real Time when I tuned in tonight. Nice presentation.

You rocked on the show.
The facial expressions were the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B3OOVjL13s

The same poster has many clips of the show, including one with the mouth/jesus comment (It's too bad you were off screen for that one :-)

fantastic

is that panel all they can get because of the strike?

Dan was the best, and could talk.

when people were swearing my MOM would say - And you eat with that mouth? - the phrase has been around a LONG time in its versions

And for sure those nice Christians will be nice as they hang you - nice is their stock and trade.

The Guy in the cowboy hate is Trace Atkins, country western singer. don't know why he is on the show, but hey they have to appeal to the wide audience that watches the show!! lol

Fabulous, Dan. Can't wait to watch the clips. But am I wrong for wanting you to say something harsher to the blonde Huck supporter? She IS attacking you personally even though she says she isn't. Jesus Christ!

Outstanding on Maher's show last night.
You're my new hero.

Yep, as usual, Dan's the best bang for your entertainment buck. Speaking of which: Hey Dan, when can we expect to see "Savage Love - The Movie?"

Log-rolling in our time...

Nice work Dan.

DL Hughly was right. Gay Marriage and Conferderate flag is code for we will protect you from niggers and fags.

i think bill maher enjoys trace adkins' gruff charm. i thought he looked like he couldn't agree with the bush or huckabee bashing or he'd get dixie chicked.

funny how he & DL agreed over golf. nouveau riche knows no race.

Mr. Atkins seemed to seethe a mixture of extreme fear coated in rage the entire time. Was that what you saw up close, Dan?

The Fund guy from the WSJ: A "problem" for the liberal/progressive side is that we don't have an army of loud automatons to repeat moronic rightwing slogans over everybody else on these shows. Stewart and Olbermann seemed to stop having them on, except when they're really prepared to take them down.

Too much thinking and/or politeness on our side.

Of course he prays with that mouth, and if the need arose he'd beat the hell out of all fags with those hands that hold the Bible.

That was really well done. Dan, you were the most intelligent, funny, and polished of the lot. What's required on these shows is a gift for the sound bite, and you've got it. Hughley was good, too, but the other two guys came across as unprepared and, just, thick.

So glad you don't just stick to the sex advice. Great stuff.

Dan,

You have no problem crossing picket lines and helping to crush a labor movement all so you could get a little face time with Bill Maher? That is REALLY fucked up.

You should be supporting the writer not intentionally undermining their efforts.

You are nothing but a scab.

And personally, finding ways to make fun of people like you did just isn't funny. Snarky isn't funny, ambushing people isn't funny, and you are not funny.

You disgust me more and more.

Oh, and whats it been, like 3 weeks since you have seen your boy? I am sure that all that time gone is worth it now that you have recieved a little notoriety on the tube with Bill.

"By the time they get to me they'll be out of rocks"

You are such a GEM!

dan, you're too skinny!!!!

Hehehehe......

"Only Bulls 'cause cow fucking cow is wrong."

HAHAHAHA!!!!

You are a gem, Dan.

Oh, ecce.

Dan, I bet your little one-eyed poodle misses you too. You never did tell us what his name is. (He's probably afraid to tell us; knowing Dan, he probably named it Dickhead.)

Liberal fag!

@27 - The one-eyed brain-damaged deaf poodle is named Stinker, by DJ, I think.

Is it on youtube yet? I have no cable.

Oops. Never mind. Just found it.

How can you undermine organized labor by being a low down fucking scab and still call yourself a liberal?

Oh, ugh, I am mortified that I have a question along the same lines as such a muckraking troll. Please read mine with a civil tone and with the sincerity in which I ask it:

Dan, I am curious about you crossing the picket line to do Bill's show. He's been pretty vocal about his feelings toward the WGA and I am wondering if you agree with his statements?

Maher has declared there is "no exit strategy" in place for the strike. I see his point. But, as a person that makes his living off the written word, I wonder how you justify your participation?

I'm not trying to be a dick here, Dan. I'm genuinely curious. I've got mixed feelings about the strike's effect and would love to hear your opinions.

The strike is an interesting topic,but Dan, you fucking KILLED on the show. Really top-notch work.

You were BY FAR the quickest witted person on the show -- although DL Hughley and Bill were keeping close behind -- but I was delighted with your comments!

Did "Real Time" ever use writers? I'm thinking it was always unscripted...

How about sporting events? Is it OK to go to tennis matches? Or the superbowl?

Elections are covered by news organizations and broadcasted. Are we scabs if we vote? Or talk to a reporter?

How about watching the news?

Like most issues, the strike thing isn't black or white.

BTW, I do see The Daily Show and Real Time as 'real' news shows. Thank goodness they have hosts and guests who can talk without a script. (And Dan was definitely the best!)

The answer Ayden is that they both use writers for quite a bit of the show that you THINK is unscripted.

Oh, and we are speaking of writers who are part of the writers union. I do not believe reporters who cover the "news" are "writers" by that definition.

>> The answer Ayden is that they both use writers for quite a bit of the show that you THINK is unscripted.

I know that's true of The Daily Show. (Jon Stewart admits it - and it's often obvious.) But I didn't realize it applied to "Real Time," too. I always thought Bill Maher wrote his own material.

Thanks for clarifying for me, ecce. (Although the classification of writers still confuses me.)

And I still don't think Dan is a scab... I see him as reporting NEWS - from a perspective not covered by anyone else. (At least that's the way I WANT to see it ;-))

Dan,

Have you ever been approached about your own show? If not, I predict it will happen soon.

Fantastic job.

So, is Ecce homo paid to blog here? Normally I just chuckle at his sardonic comments, and I know I have read Dan tell him he loves ecce... That crap is just really old. If you are going to be so caustic, at least find some new material.

Joy,

Eat the corn out of my shit...

Love,

Ecce

Dan was good, but that's faint praise given how awful the rest of the show was. I physically winced during the monologue and the panel, it was that bad.

I second the concerns others have voiced here about someone of your talent appearing on Real Time in the midst of the writer's strike.

Ecce,
I love corn, but I wouldn't want to deprive your mama of her favorite meal.
But call me for the next dinner party. I'll bring you a nice warm bowl of milk.
Love,
Joy

http://blip.tv/file/520347

This is genius

I thought your comment about
"We don't go over there and tell you what to do with your FLAGS, so don't come over here and tell us what to do with our FAGS.
was a classic! Way to go!

Dan speaks extemporaneously, he has nothing to do with Hollywood's screenwriter's strike. He saved the day. Without Dan, (and those silly interviews) the show would have sorely missed 'new rules'.
Forgive my sounding like a jewish mother, but Dan, you need to put on some weight. Youve got us all worried.

Sorry, I put my computer away on Friday night and didn't open it until this morning -- I wanted to focus on the family after being on the road for a week and a half (Vegas, Portland, South Carolina, LA). So I missed the call outs about the strike. Basically I agree with (big shocker) Andrew Sullivan, who wrote this after going on Colbert:

I should add that I totally support the Writers' Guild of America in their attempt to get paid for crucial Internet residuals. The show didn't use any written material, and I never do in public speaking. I was asked to go on a national TV show to talk about the election, and promote my recent Atlantic cover-story. And I hope the WGA wins their battle.

To that I would add...

Colbert, Stewart, and Maher aren't merely entertainment programs. They are, for a great many people, news programs, the places they get info about politics, candidates, and elections. There is a writers' strike on. There is an election on too. We can't sit out the conversation about the election -- and that's all I did on Maher. Converse. Nothing was scripted, I wrote nothing down. I viewed it the same way I viewed going on CNN or MSNBC.

I didn't, and wouldn't, start writing scripts for, say, Lost. I think the WGA should have made an exception for programs like Colbert and Maher's, and it was a tactical error not to. They are, I think, too important and the stakes are too high as we move to a vote on the next PUSA to have Colbert, Stewart, and Maher off the air/cable/Internets.

Finally, I didn't cross a picket line -- there wasn't a picket line at the studio. And I was relieved because I would have felt terrible about crossing a picket line for the first time in my life... in the back seat of a limo.