Bill Maher

From 2003 to?

Yeah, the Bush's War.

I was in the service, but I didn't serve in Iraq.

I, oddly enough, went over there as a USO tour.

In Iraq.

Because you were a comic by then?

Yeah.

I took Horatio Sanz.

I took Paul Scheer and Rob Hubel because I did improv with those guys in New York.

And it was just the four of us.

And what was the show like?

What was in the show?

We slapped together a show.

I kind of did double duty.

So...

I grabbed Paul and Rob because we had done improv for years, and Horatio also had done a lot of improv with us, and I had been on SNL with Horatio, and we got along really well.

So I would do some stand-up in the beginning, then we would do a couple of sketches or bits that we had kind of written up.

Horatio, we would do some stuff with the audience.

So we'd get some of the troops to come up and join us for like a dating game parody where Horatio came out and played Carol, you know, and she was the bachelorette.

And so we'd get three soldiers up there to be the, you know, just playing, we did all these bits, right?