April 18, 2008 - Comedian Syd Stickel, on Bill Maher's
apology over comments Maher made on his HBO television show Real Time with
Bill Maher
regarding the Catholic Church and child abuse, which were thought
by some to be offensive:
"Maher is being a wimp to apologize - and this is no joke. So what if a
few people cancel their HBO subscriptions? For every person who cancels,
there are probably ten people who subscribe to HBO just to get Maher.
Maher should tell HBO 'Screw you - cancel me, then, and I'll just carry
all my viewers over to Showtime.' Besides, all those people who cancelled
are going to come back anyway, just as soon as they realize how much they miss
re-runs of Pornucopia: Sex in The Valley. The world needs Maher to
keep pointing out that the only difference between a religion and a cult is the
number of members."