HBO gives Bill Maher the freedom to do things he's always wanted to do on a political talk show: Curse. Make sexual references. And go into the audience to physically take on an obnoxious heckler.

Now this is great television. The only thing missing was a high-pitched, "Don't tase me, bro!"

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