Bill Maher has fired his longtime representatives Creative Artists Agency (CAA), who have represented him for more than two decades, after he was removed from the guest list for a pre-Oscars party hosted by CAA’s CEO last weekend.
The censure and subsequent dismissal from the agency was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and comes after Maher felt slighted after not receiving an invite to Bryan Lourd’s exclusive Oscars party, held at his LA mansion.
The party was a who’s who of Hollywood A-listers and fellow CAA clients, including Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston. which only further incense Maher, after being out in the cold.
CAA has not officially commented on the divorce, but another representative of Maher at the Wasserman (Brillstein Entertainment Partners) Agency told DailyMail.com that there was no truth in the news that he was leaving CAA.
‘It’s not true at all. He is still with CAA and has not made a decision regarding his representation at this time,” they said on Saturday evening.
Bill Maher has parted ways with CAA, his representative for more than two decades, after not receiving an invitation to CEO Bryan Lourd’s private Oscar party
The party was a who’s who of Hollywood A-listers and fellow CAA clients, held at the LA mansion of CAA CEO Bryan Lourd
Matt Bomer and Simon Halls at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party with their restauranteur friends Bruce Bozzi and his husband Bryan Lourd
Jennifer Aniston is seen at an Oscars watch party with Bruce Bozzi and writer Derek Blasberg
From left to right: Bruce Bozzi, Salma Hayek, Kevin Huvane, Fracois-Henri Pinault and Bryan Lourd attend the CAA pre-Oscar party at Sunset Tower in Los Angeles, where Maher was a no-show
The event Maher missed took place at Lourd’s home and also coincided with the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Night Before bash,
JJ Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger, Alan Bergman, Dana Walden, Brian Robbins, Jason Blum, Brian Grazer, Donna Langley and Pam Abdy were all in attendance.
Maher’s apparent criticism of Lourd’s bash came after he also failed to show up at a more ‘official’ CAA-hosted event at the Sunset Tower Hotel the night before.
Maher was nowhere to be seen, which only fueled rumors that all was not well between the HBO talk show host and CAA.
Instead, he appeared at rival agency William Morris Endeavor WME’s Oscar party at the Hearst Estate in Beverly Hills.
The agency represents Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Jodie Foster, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, America Ferrera, Justin Triet and Yorgos Lanthimos, among others.
Actress Julia Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, were spotted leaving a glamorous pre-Oscar party in Beverly Hills
JJ Abrams, Maha Dakhil and Katie McGrath appeared at last year’s CAA Pre-Oscar Party
Margot Robbie attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills after the Oscar ceremony
From left to right: Author Diana Nyad, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, actor Jon Hamm and his wife Anna Osceola attend the CAA pre-Oscar party at Sunset Tower
Kelly Ripa and Andy Cohen are seen at the CAA pre-Oscar party at Sunset Tower
From left to right, Jeffrey Wright, Vin Diesel and Cord Jefferson attend the CAA’s pre-Oscar party
Maher was represented at CAA by Steven Lafferty, who also serves as the agency’s head of television.
The agency recently received a two-year extension for Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” which would begin its 24th season in 2026.
His show has been on the air since 2003 and is one of the network’s longest-running original series.
