
When Fox News host Dana Perino proposed in January that the outspoken and ostensibly left-leaning comic Bill Maher, 66, might make a good Democratic presidential candidate, the veteran stand-up was only too pleased to shoot down the idea.
In the next instalment of Real Time with Bill Maher – the current events chat show he has fronted on HBO since 2003 – Maher offered his rebuttal in a straight-to-camera monologue entitled “How the Left was Lost”.