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The show was taped at Hollywood Center Studios . The first episode featured comedian Jerry Seinfeld , Howard Stern sidekick Robin Quivers , GOP strategist Ed Rollins , and comedian Larry Miller . The show won a 2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series, and was nominated for seventeen others, including one for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series every year from 1995 to 2002, and one in 1997 for Maher in the category of Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program. The show also two Cable Ace Awards in 1995 and 1996 for Talk Show Series, and was nominated for a third in 1997. It was also nominated for two Writers Guild Of America awards for best Comedy/Variety series in 2001 and 2002. {Link without Title} The demise of the show came after Maher made the following "politically incorrect" comment about the September 11, 2001 Attacks on the World Trade Center : "We have been the cowards lobbing Cruise Missile s from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher has been quoted as saying the show's cancellation came about because the politically conservative was a frequent guest on the show; she was on her way to a taping of it aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when she was killed. For an entire week afterwards, Maher left one guest chair empty in her honor. {Link without Title} Maher now hosts the hour-long program '' Real Time With Bill Maher '', which follows a similar format, but which, because it airs on HBO , features no censorship of language, or commercial breaks, which alleviated a problem voiced by many that that ''Politically Incorrect'' was too short, and encumbered commercial breaks. Maher has made many jokes referencing back to ''Politically Incorrect'', some of which center on his resentment towards ABC for canceling the show, but that he prefers to be on HBO where he does not have to "whore" himself. EXTERNAL LINKS AND SOURCES
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