Bill Maher Net Worth 2026: The $140 Million HBO Fortune

Last updated: November 11, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Bill Maher’s net worth in 2026 is $140 million. That is the figure Celebrity Net Worth carries after its October 28, 2026 update, and it is the number TV Insider, TushStories, ProfileBios and RivonHome all land on too. The money comes from a $10 million-a-year HBO salary for Real Time with Bill Maher, a New York Mets investment he bought for about $20 million and sold at a large profit, six bestselling books, a podcast with more than 700,000 YouTube subscribers, and 13 HBO stand-up specials. Maher turned 70 on January 20, 2026. In the same year he quit stand-up comedy, collected the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and signed on to keep Real Time running through 2028. This article works through the $140 million figure piece by piece — the salary, the Mets deal with its conflicting numbers settled honestly, the house, the books — and says plainly where the internet’s other figures come from and why they are wrong.

Maher has been on television, in one form or another, for 33 years. He hosted Politically Incorrect from 1993 until ABC cancelled it in 2002, then moved to HBO in 2003 and never left. That run makes him one of the longest-serving political talk-show hosts in American television, and the length of the run is the first thing to understand about the fortune. A $10 million annual salary paid for more than two decades, with no long gaps between jobs, adds up. The second thing to understand is that Maher spent carefully. He told his Club Random audience in October 2024 that he “got so rich” partly by not spending like a television star. The third is the Mets deal, the single best investment of his life — and the one most profiles get wrong, because they report the payday as though he still owns the team. He does not. He sold in 2020.

How Much Is Bill Maher Worth in 2026?

Bill Maher is worth an estimated $140 million in 2026. The figure has held steady across the last two years of reporting: Celebrity Net Worth carried it through 2025 and reaffirmed it in its October 28, 2026 update, TV Insider reported it in December 2025, and TushStories and ProfileBios both reported it in the first half of 2026. MediaTalky, the one outlet that gives a band rather than a point figure, puts him at $140–160 million. That band is the honest way to read the number. Nobody outside Maher’s accountant knows the exact figure, and a single point estimate pretends otherwise. What the reporting does agree on is the floor: no credible 2026 source puts him below $140 million, and the $100 million figure still floating around the internet belongs to an older snapshot of the same data.

The shape of the fortune matters as much as the size. This is not a fortune built on one deal. It is a salary fortune with a single great investment on top. The salary is the base: $10 million a year from HBO, paid every year since 2003, with Maher also collecting executive-producer fees on the same show. Twenty-three years at that rate, even after taxes and living costs, is the bulk of the $140 million. The Mets deal is the spike: roughly $20 million in, and somewhere between $60 million and $97 million out, depending on whose valuation maths you trust. The rest is the long tail of a 47-year career — stand-up touring until 2026, 13 HBO specials, six books, a documentary, and a podcast that now runs weekly. Put together, the pieces add up to $140 million without needing to stretch any single one of them.

Why Estimates Range From 0 Million to 0 Million

Search “Bill Maher net worth” and three numbers come back: $100 million, $140 million and $190 million. They are not three different fortunes. They are three different dates, and the oldest one is doing the most damage. GlobeSpaceNews, published in June 2026 and updated June 23, 2026, says Maher’s net worth is $100 million “according to CelebrityNetWorth, as of 2026”. The attribution is the problem. Celebrity Net Worth’s own page now says $140 million, updated October 28, 2026. The $100 million figure was CNW’s older number, captured by GlobeSpaceNews from a stale snapshot and then repeated as though it were current. It is the most common error in celebrity net-worth content: a figure that was right once, copied after it changed, and never checked again. Any page still saying $100 million in November 2026 is out of date.

The $190 million figure comes from the other direction. CA Knowledge, a site last updated in September 2023, claims Maher is worth $190 million and earns a $26 million annual HBO salary, with a $4 million ratings bonus on top. No other outlet reports either number. TV Insider, Celebrity Net Worth, Yahoo and TheThings all report the salary at $10 million, and every 2025–2026 net-worth profile reports $140 million. The $190 million figure has no corroboration anywhere in the reporting record, and the $26 million salary contradicts four separate sources. This article treats both as outliers and does not use them. The iliketodabble profile, published May 2025, lands at $170 million — but its own table calls that a projection, not a reported figure, and it is built by adding $10 million a year to the $140 million base as though net worth grew by the full salary with no taxes or spending. That is not how money works, and the projection is not used here either.

The lesson is simple and it applies to every celebrity fortune on the internet: check the date on the figure, then check whether the source it cites still says the same thing. In Maher’s case the answer is no. The $140 million figure is the current one, the $100 million figure is a fossil, and the $190 million figure was never real. The rest of this article is built on the $140 million anchor, with the $140–160 million band where a range is more honest than a point.

The HBO Salary: Million a Year for Real Time

The single biggest line in Maher’s income is the HBO contract, and it has been the same line for 23 years. Maher earns a reported $10 million a year for hosting Real Time with Bill Maher, according to Yahoo’s reporting carried by TheThings in January 2023 and repeated by TV Insider in December 2025 and Celebrity Net Worth in its October 2026 update. The figure has not moved in any reporting since 2023, which is itself a data point: either the salary is genuinely stable across renewals, or the number is a long-standing estimate that nobody has refreshed. Either way, $10 million is the figure every credible source uses, and this article uses it too.

Per-episode maths puts the salary in perspective. Seasons of Real Time typically run about 35 episodes, per IMDb’s season data cited by TheThings. Divide $10 million by 35 and the result is a little over $285,000 per episode — illustrative maths, not a reported per-episode rate, but a fair way to see what an hour of Friday-night television is worth to HBO. Maher is also an executive producer on the show, alongside Sheila Griffiths, Dean Johnsen, Billy Martin and Marc Gurvitz, which means producer fees sit on top of the hosting salary, though no outlet has reported the size of those fees. He signed a new HBO contract in 2023, reported at the time by iliketodabble, and the January 2026 renewal extended the arrangement further. The exact terms of the 2026 deal have not been reported, and this article does not guess at them.

For comparison inside the late-night field, Maher’s $10 million sits in the middle of the pack. Jimmy Fallon’s net worth profile on this site puts his Tonight Show salary at $18 million a year behind a $70 million fortune, while John Oliver’s $80 million HBO fortune is built on a similar premium-cable deal to Maher’s. The difference is the shape of the career: Fallon and Oliver are still climbing, while Maher has been collecting the same cheque, year after year, since 2003. Twenty-three years at $10 million is $230 million in gross salary before tax — the foundation the rest of the fortune sits on.

Real Time in 2026: Season 24 and the Renewal Through 2028

2026 has been a strong year for Real Time. Season 24 premiered on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 10 p.m. on HBO, streaming on Max. Two weeks earlier, on January 7, 2026, HBO announced the show’s renewal for two more seasons — seasons 25 and 26 — carrying it through 2028. Yardbarker reported the renewal the same day, noting that the previous renewal had come in March 2024, when the show was confirmed for seasons 23 and 24. The January 2026 announcement means Maher, who turned 70 the same month, will still be hosting the show at 72. He has hosted it since February 2003, which makes Real Time one of the longest-running shows hosted by a single person in premium-cable history.

The show’s format has barely changed in 23 years: a monologue, a one-on-one interview, a panel of three guests, the “New Rules” closing segment, and the web-only “Overtime” extension. What has changed is the news cycle it sits in, and 2026 gave it plenty to work with. Maher hosted Vice President J.D. Vance on the show in the week before the Mark Twain Prize ceremony in June 2026, and his August 28, 2026 episode featured Wesleyan University president Michael Roth in a debate about the political monoculture on campuses — a segment TV Insider covered the following week. The show returned from its Labor Day break on Friday, September 11, 2026. Through all of it, the Friday 10 p.m. slot has held, and HBO has kept renewing.

There is one cloud over the show’s home. HBO’s parent, Warner Bros Discovery, was reported in May 2026 to be selling to Paramount Skydance for approximately $111 billion, a deal Internewscast covered while reporting Maher’s on-air criticism of the network’s news coverage. The sale does not change Maher’s contract — his renewal through 2028 was announced by HBO itself — but it is the backdrop to every conversation about the show’s future, and it is worth naming rather than ignoring. For now, the position is simple: Real Time is renewed, Maher is under contract, and the $10 million a year keeps coming through 2028.

The Mets Investment: Million In, a Big Payday Out

The best investment Bill Maher ever made was also the most accidental-looking one. In 2012, the New York Mets’ owners, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, needed cash. The trustee recovering money for victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme had sued them, and a deal to sell a minority stake to hedge-fund manager David Einhorn had fallen through. The Wilpons put 12 minority shares up for sale — 4% stakes at $20 million each. Maher, a lifelong Mets fan who grew up in New Jersey, read about the opportunity in the newspaper in December 2011 and bought in. The Associated Press confirmed the purchase in June 2012, when Maher revealed at Citi Field that he had become a limited partner months earlier. He would not say how much he paid. The reporting since has settled on the standard price: about $20 million for roughly 4% of the team.

Eight years later, the investment paid off in full. In November 2020, billionaire Steve Cohen closed his $2.4 billion deal to buy the Mets — $2.42 billion per Sportico’s valuation, the largest sale in Major League Baseball history. The New York Post reported that the deal roughly tripled the minority investors’ money. Maher confirmed it himself on Real Time in February 2021, telling guest Jimmy Kimmel, whose $50 million late-night fortune was built on a similar long television run: he had got his cheque, he was out, and “it was a great 10 years.” MarketRealist, reporting the story in January 2022, quoted Maher saying he “made out like a f—king bandit” — his words, and a fair summary of tripling $20 million in eight years.

Here is where the reporting splits, and where this article parts company with the way most profiles tell the story. Celebrity Net Worth’s page carries a section headed “New York Mets Investment and $80 Million Payday”, and says a full 4% interest at the rounded valuation produces an estimated $80 million payout. FanGraphs, working from the $2.42 billion Sportico valuation, calculates that a 4% share was worth around $97 million at the sale. The New York Post’s “roughly tripled” points to about $60 million. Those three numbers — $60 million, $80 million, $97 million — are all attempts to value the same exit, and the honest range is the full spread. This article takes Celebrity Net Worth’s $80 million as the mid-range anchor, which implies a profit of roughly $60 million on the $20 million invested. But the number matters less than the correction: Maher sold in 2020. He does not still own a stake in the Mets, and any profile that lists the team as a current asset is wrong. The $80 million is a realised gain, banked five years ago, and it is already inside the $140 million net worth — not sitting on top of it.

Politically Incorrect: The Show That Made Him, and the Cancellation

Before HBO, there was Politically Incorrect. Maher took over the late-night panel show in 1993 on Comedy Central, moved it to ABC in 1997, and hosted 2,266 episodes over nine years. The format — Maher plus four guests arguing about the news — was the template for everything he has done since, and it made him a national figure for the first time. The show’s end came fast. On September 17, 2001, six days after the September 11 attacks, Maher agreed on air with guest Dinesh D’Souza that the terrorists should not be called cowards. Advertisers withdrew. The Sinclair Broadcast Group dropped the show from its ABC-affiliated stations months before the end. ABC declined to renew his contract, and the show was cancelled on June 16, 2002. Six days later, on June 22, 2002, Maher received the Los Angeles Press Club president’s award — a consolation prize for a career that looked, for a moment, as though it might be over.

It was not over. Eight months after the cancellation, in February 2003, HBO launched Real Time with Bill Maher, with Maher as host, co-producer and co-writer. The move from broadcast to premium cable changed the economics of his career twice over: HBO paid more, and it did not answer to advertisers. The cancellation that looked like the end of his television career became the reason his television career lasted 23 more years. The lesson Maher took from it shows up in his work ever since — he has built his brand on saying the thing nobody else on the panel will say, and he has done it on a network where the advertisers cannot pull the plug.

Stand-Up: 13 HBO Specials and the 2026 Retirement

Maher started in stand-up in 1979, and the stage paid him long before television did. His first HBO special aired in 1989, and by the time HBO announced the January 2026 Real Time renewal, the network credited him with thirteen solo comedy specials across more than 30 years. The last of them, Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?, was taped in December 2024 and released on HBO in January 2025. Touring filled the gaps between television seasons for four decades, and it was a real income line: sold-out theatres, year after year, with material that then fed the books and the specials.

That income line is now closed. In May 2024, on Club Random with Jerry Seinfeld, Maher said he would be done with stand-up after the special. In November 2025, on Club Random with Patton Oswalt, he explained why: he was “tired of the travel” after 40 years, and he did not want to be out in the country in the current political atmosphere, telling Oswalt he “could get shot by the left or the right”. Men’s Journal reported the conversation on November 18, 2025. He confirmed the retirement again on April 30, 2026, when Last Night On reported him saying “I’m out” and noting that the December 2024 special had been his last time on the road. He told CNN’s Jake Tapper he was stopping because he had been doing it for 40 years, and that stand-up is like boxing — “you can’t do it a little bit”.

The retirement matters for the net-worth picture in a specific way: most profiles still list touring as a current income stream, and it is not. The $140 million figure does not depend on future tour revenue, because there will not be any. What remains is the catalogue — 13 specials, the last of them 18 months old — and the podcast, which has taken the stage’s place as the room where Maher talks without a script.

Club Random: The Podcast That Replaced the Road

Maher launched Club Random in 2022, and it has grown into the second pillar of his working life. The show is recorded at a bar-like setting in his home, and the premise is the opposite of Real Time: long, loose conversations about everything except politics, though politics has a habit of walking in anyway. Guests have included Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, Quentin Tarantino and Neil deGrasse Tyson. By April 2026 the show’s YouTube channel had passed 700,000 subscribers, according to Last Night On’s reporting on the stand-up retirement. The show also carries sponsors — the Bill Burr episode, for example, promoted the menswear brand Rhone with a discount code — and podcast advertising, YouTube revenue and brand deals are now a standing income line that the touring revenue used to be.

Club Random is also where Maher’s biggest news now breaks. The stand-up retirement was announced there, twice. The October 2024 episode where he explained “how I got so rich” — the one TV Insider quoted in December 2025 — was a Club Random recording. The show’s economics are not public: no outlet has reported its revenue, and this article does not estimate it. What is public is the scale — 700,000-plus subscribers, weekly episodes, guests at the top of comedy and film — and the role it plays. At 70, with the road behind him, the podcast is the room where Maher still works without a teleprompter, and it is the project most likely to keep growing while Real Time runs down its contract through 2028.

Books: Six Bestsellers, From True Story to 2024

Maher has written six bestselling books, and they are the most under-reported part of the fortune. The list runs from a novel, True Story (1994), through the Politically Incorrect collections — Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? (1997) and When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden (2003) — to the two New Rules volumes, New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer (2005) and The New New Rules (2011). The most recent, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2024 and collects his arguments on politics, media and everyday behaviour. The Club Random bio lists all six as bestsellers, and Celebrity Net Worth’s October 2026 update notes the 2024 book as his latest publishing income.

Book money for a television host works differently from book money for a novelist. The advances are larger because the author brings an audience, and the back catalogue keeps selling because the television show keeps the name in front of readers. Maher’s books are, in effect, the written version of the monologue — the same jokes and arguments, in a form that pays royalties for years after publication. No outlet has reported the size of any single advance, and this article does not invent one. The honest statement is narrower: six bestsellers across 30 years, from a major publisher, with the latest published in 2024, is a real income stream, and it is one of the reasons the $140 million figure holds up against the $100 million stale number. A writer with six bestsellers and a weekly television show does not sit still financially.

Maher’s other screen work sits in the same long tail. He wrote, starred in and produced the documentary Religulous (2008), directed by Larry Charles, which examined organised religion through his own sceptical lens. His production company, KidLove Productions, sits behind his television and film projects. His early acting credits — D.C. Cab (1983), Ratboy (1986), House II: The Second Story (1987) — are a footnote now, but they are the reason he could walk into a hosting job in 1993 with a performer’s instincts already in place. None of this is the main money. The main money is the salary, the Mets deal and the books, in that order.

Real Estate: The Million Beverly Hills Estate

Maher’s main property is a Mediterranean estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area of Los Angeles, on Cherokee Lane near Rising Glen Road. He bought it from actor Ben Affleck in 2003 for approximately $20 million, according to Arteriors Home’s reporting on the property. The compound covers about 3.2 acres, with roughly 8,000 square feet of living space, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Reports as of 2026 say he still lives there and has never put the house on the market. HomeImprovementGeek, updating its profile of the house in October 2026, puts the current estimate at $20–30 million and notes that comparable properties in the same canyon corridor now sell for $30–40 million. Arteriors Home puts the 2026 estimate more narrowly at $20–25 million. Either way, the house has held its value across 23 years without appreciating much beyond the purchase price — a solid asset, not a second fortune.

One claim about the house should be discarded. RivonHome’s house profile says Maher bought the mansion in 2004 for $1 million and that it now values around $20 million. The $1 million purchase price contradicts the $20 million Affleck sale reported by two other outlets and by the property’s own history, and no record supports it. This article does not use it. What the reporting does agree on is that Maher owns additional property in California beyond the main estate — RivonHome says he “owns multiple properties” — but no outlet names them, prices them or gives addresses, so this article does not count them in the fortune. The house is worth including because it is a large, verifiable piece of the $140 million. The unnamed extra properties are not.

Early Life: New York City, River Vale, Cornell

William Maher was born in New York City on January 20, 1956, the son of William Aloysius Maher Jr., a network news editor and radio announcer, and Julie Maher, a nurse. He was raised in his Irish-American father’s Catholic faith and did not learn until his early teens that his mother, from a Hungarian Jewish background, was Jewish. The family lived in River Vale, New Jersey, where Maher grew up and graduated from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale in 1974. He went on to Cornell University, where he double-majored in English and history and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978. Encyclopedia.com’s biographical entry records the same path: born in New York, raised in River Vale, Cornell class of 1978.

Maher has said the Cornell years are where the act was formed — an English and history student who spent his time arguing about politics and reading, then graduated into a country where the only job for that skill set was a microphone. He started stand-up in 1979, a year after graduation, and spent the 1980s working clubs and taking small film roles while the act took shape. The early life matters to the net-worth story because it explains the shape of the career: no inherited money, no family connections in entertainment — his father worked in news, not show business — and a degree in the two subjects that now fill his Friday-night show. The fortune was built from the stage up, one gig at a time, over 47 years.

Personal Life: Never Married, No Children

Maher has never married and has no children. TheMost10’s profile, published May 2025, states both facts plainly, and TV Insider’s December 2025 profile repeats them. He has said publicly that he does not want children, and he has kept his romantic life private for most of his career. The arrangement is part of the financial story, whether he would put it that way or not: a 70-year-old with no divorce settlements, no child-support obligations and no family to support has kept far more of his earnings than a television star with a different personal history would have. That is not a judgment. It is arithmetic, and it helps explain how a $10 million salary over 23 years becomes a $140 million net worth instead of a smaller one.

His private life has surfaced in public only twice, both times in court. In 2005, a former girlfriend, Coco Johnsen, sued him; the case was settled. In 2011, another former partner, Anjulie Persaud, filed a suit that was dismissed. Neither case changed the shape of the fortune, and this article records them only because a reader searching for Maher’s personal life will find them — and should find them here, stated plainly, rather than in a gossip profile. The rest of his personal life is his own business, and the public record supports leaving it that way.

2026’s Biggest Honour: The Mark Twain Prize

The biggest single event of Maher’s 2026 was not a television renewal or a pay cheque. It was the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded at the Kennedy Center on June 28, 2026. Maher became the 27th recipient of the prize, which the Kennedy Center gives to comedians who have shaped American discourse in the spirit of Samuel Clemens. The ceremony ran two and a half hours, with tributes from Woody Harrelson, Louis C.K. and Whitney Cummings, a performance by John Mellencamp, and the prize itself presented by Jay Leno, who won it in 2014. The ceremony streamed on Netflix from July 21, 2026, and Maher’s new special, Ridiculous, arrived on Netflix two days after the ceremony, on June 30, 2026. The 2025 recipient was Conan O’Brien, whose $200 million Team Coco fortune is the largest in the late-night field — a useful reminder that Maher’s $140 million, large as it is, is not the biggest pile in his profession.

The prize came with a political subplot that Maher could not have scripted better. When reports first surfaced in March 2026 that he was the chosen recipient, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, called the news “fake news”, and the White House communications director doubled down on social media. President Trump had installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center’s board, and the administration had spent months trying to rename the building. The Kennedy Center held firm, and Maher took the stage in June and joked that the prize was “like an Emmy, except I win” — a reference to his 41 Emmy nominations without a single win, a record he cited himself on the night. DC Theater Arts, covering the ceremony on July 1, 2026, noted that the charged setting suited him: a comedian who has spent 33 years being attacked by both sides, honoured in a building both sides were fighting over.

The prize followed the other big political story of Maher’s recent years: the White House dinner with Donald Trump in March 2025. Maher, a long-time Trump critic, accepted the invitation and afterwards called Trump “gracious and measured”. Trump returned the favour in February 2026 by calling the dinner a “waste of time” on social media. Maher hosted Vice President J.D. Vance on Real Time in the week before the Twain ceremony. None of this is a money story in the direct sense. It is a relevance story, and relevance is what keeps a 70-year-old host’s contract renewed. The Twain Prize, the Netflix special, the Vance interview — together they are the reason HBO renewed the show through 2028 instead of letting it wind down, and the renewal is the reason the $10 million a year keeps flowing.

Bill Maher vs the Late-Night Field

Maher’s $140 million looks different depending on who you put next to it. Inside the late-night field, he sits in the upper middle: richer than the nightly hosts who came up after him, poorer than the two biggest names in the genre. The table below uses this site’s own profiles, each verified live before this article was written.

The table tells the story of two different ways to get rich in late night. Conan O’Brien’s $200 million comes from owning the means of production — Team Coco, the production company, the podcast network, the touring business. Maher’s $140 million comes from the other route: a long, steady salary plus one great investment. Fallon’s $18 million salary is nearly double Maher’s, yet his fortune is half the size, because Maher has been collecting his Real Time cheque since 2003 — eleven years before Fallon took over The Tonight Show in 2014 — and because Fallon never had a Mets deal. The comparison that flatters Maher most is the simplest one: of the seven hosts in the table, he is the only one whose fortune includes a sports-team exit worth tens of millions. The comparison that humbles him is just as simple: Conan built a company, Maher built a career, and the company is worth $60 million more.

What’s Next: Real Time Through 2028

The next two years are already mapped. Real Time is renewed through 2028, which means two more seasons of the $10 million salary, two more seasons of Friday nights, and two more years of the monologue, the panel and the “New Rules” segment. Club Random keeps recording weekly, with the YouTube audience past 700,000 and still growing. The Netflix special Ridiculous, released June 30, 2026, gives him a streaming presence beyond HBO for the first time. The stand-up road is closed, the books are in print, the house is paid for, and the Mets money is banked. For more late-night fortunes in the same field, see the Celebrity Net Worth archive.

The open question is what happens after 2028, when Maher will be 72 and the current renewal runs out. Nothing in the reporting suggests an answer yet, and this article will not invent one. What the record does say is that HBO has renewed him four times across 23 years, that the 2026 renewal came with a season premiere two weeks later, and that the Mark Twain Prize put him back at the centre of the comedy world in the same year he turned 70. If the show ends in 2028, the $140 million stands on its own. If it is renewed again, the fortune keeps growing by $10 million a year. Either way, the number this article reports — $140 million, in a $140–160 million band, anchored on Celebrity Net Worth’s October 28, 2026 update and corroborated by five other outlets — is the figure the reporting supports, and it is the figure a reader can trust.

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Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on 11 November 2026 from live reporting and dated snapshots: Celebrity Net Worth (updated October 28, 2026) for the $140 million anchor, the $10 million salary, the Mets “$80 million payday” framing and the January 2026 renewal through 2028; TV Insider (December 2, 2025) for the $140 million figure, the $10 million salary and the 2020 Mets sale; TushStories (June 14, 2026) and ProfileBios (May 4, 2026) for the $140 million corroboration, the January 20, 1956 birth date, the age of 70 and the six-book list; MediaTalky (November 18, 2025) for the $140–160 million band; GlobeSpaceNews (June 18–23, 2026) for the stale $100 million figure, cited here as the out-of-date page it is; CA Knowledge (2023) and iliketodabble (May 2025) for the $190 million and $170 million outliers, cited here as uncorroborated; TheThings (January 19, 2023) for the Yahoo salary report and the ~$285,000 per-episode maths; Yardbarker (January 7, 2026) for the season 24 premiere date (January 23, 2026) and the renewal for seasons 25–26 through 2028; MarketRealist (January 18, 2022) for the Mets purchase details, the Cohen sale and Maher’s February 2021 Real Time comments; the Associated Press (June 4, 2012) and ESPN for the 2012 purchase; Sportico and FanGraphs (September 2020) for the $2.42 billion valuation and the ~$97 million per-share maths; the New York Post (via MarketRealist) for the “roughly tripled” assessment; Wikipedia, Encyclopedia.com and Filmy Focus for the early life, the Cornell BA (1978), the Politically Incorrect run (1993–2002, 2,266 episodes) and the June 16, 2002 cancellation; Men’s Journal (November 18, 2025) and Last Night On (April 30, 2026) for the stand-up retirement and the 700,000-plus Club Random subscribers; the Club Random show bio for the six bestsellers, the 41 Emmy nominations and the 13 HBO specials; the Kennedy Center, DC Theater Arts (July 1, 2026), AARP (June 29, 2026) and Britannica for the June 28, 2026 Mark Twain Prize, the Netflix streaming date (July 21, 2026) and the Ridiculous special (June 30, 2026); Arteriors Home and HomeImprovementGeek (October 22, 2026) for the Beverly Hills estate purchase (~$20 million, 2003, from Ben Affleck) and the $20–25 million / $20–30 million estimates; TheMost10 (May 24, 2025) for the 5 ft 8 in height and the never-married, no-children facts; and Internewscast (May 10, 2026) for the reported Warner Bros Discovery sale to Paramount Skydance (~$111 billion). Where sources disagreed — above all the $100 million versus $140 million versus $190 million figures and the $60–97 million Mets payout range — the article names the disagreement and dates each figure. Where the public record is silent — the exact terms of the 2026 HBO renewal, Club Random’s revenue, the value of properties beyond the Beverly Hills estate — the article says so. Corrections are welcome via the About page.