HBO Tonight: Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Funny or Die
The Ricky Gervais Show Season 2, Real Time with Bill Maher and Funny or Die Presents premiere tonight on HBO.
HBO is jam-packing your Friday night with three must-see season premieres. The Ricky Gervais Show will begin its 2nd season as Ricky Gervais continues to bring on the laughter in this animated series. Real Time With Bill Maher will also premiere tonight and so will the hit sketch-comedy show Funny or Die Presents.
Ricky Gervais returns to his animated series alongside Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. The Ricky Gervais Show will surely kick off your Friday night with plenty of laughs as the fearsome threesome discusses Australia, In-Laws and camping. Make sure you tune in tonight when The Ricky Gervais Show Season 2 premieres at 9|8c on HBO.
I am sure everyone still recalls the episode of Real Time With Bill Maher in which Zach Galifianakis smoked a doobie on air, in support of Proposition 19. Well the hit news show which is hosted by comedian Bill Maher is back, tonight! Guests on tonight’s season premiere will be Elizabeth Warren (Assistant to President Obama), James Carville (Democratic Strategist), Mike Murphy (Republican Strategist), Chrystia Freeland (Global Editor-at-large) and Martin Short (actor/comedian). Be sure to tune in as I am sure plenty of politics will be discusses on the Real Time With Bill Maher season premiere tonight at 10|9c on HBO.
Last but not least is Funny or Die Presents. Executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy have coverted the very popular website FunnyOrDie.com into a hit TV show. Tonight will mark the Funny or Die Presents Season 2 premiere and I assure you we are in for one hell of a ride. Numerous big wigs in the entertainment industry will guest star as we enjoy hilarious sketches, music videos and much more. Make sure you tune in tonight for the Funny Or Die Presents season premiere at 12|11c on HBO.
Tennessee Tea Parties demand textbooks contain no mean things about Founding Fathers
If they get their way, history books won't say anything about "intruding on the Indians or having slaves"
George Washington is the figure standing on the dais. The central figures of the portrait are Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Painting by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952).
For a bunch of people who worship the Founders and like to play dress-up American Revolutionary War, Tea Partyers sure hate knowing anything remotely reality-based about the Founding Fathers. Tennessee Tea Party groups have introduced a proposal to take what few minorities there are in American history textbooks out of American history textbooks, along with any negative portrayals of the wealthy white men who led this young nation in its infancy.
At a press conference, two dozen activists presented their proposals -- I'm sorry, their "demands" -- for the new state legislative session. Among them are sweeping changes to school materials that they probably have not actually read.
Take it away, awful person:
The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership."
Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group's lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."
OK, but ... I mean ... those guys did a lot of "intruding" and slave-owning, is the thing.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, they're just openly rolling back school desegregation. (Which is, I guess, more honest than quietly rolling back school desegregation, like everywhere else in the country.)
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