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NEW YORK While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher was relatively tame at least until the television cameras were turned off.

It was later, during an online-only Overtime segment of Mahers Friday night show, that two of Mahers three panelists hurled expletives at the Breitbart News senior editor.

Mahers booking of Yiannopoulos, author of the upcoming book Dangerous, drew attention earlier this week when journalist Jeremy Scahill backed out of the show because of his hateful diatribes. The conservative gadfly has become a lightning rod; his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was canceled earlier this month when protests erupted.

Maher, a free speech advocate, told Yiannopoulos that he thought he was colossally wrong on most issues, but if I barred everyone from the show who I thought was colossally wrong, I would be talking to myself.

Yiannopoulos called Maher his favorite liberal.

The interview segment featured few harsh exchanges with Maher, and Yiannopoulos was not included in a panel discussion that featured comedian Larry Wilmore, author and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance and former U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican. But online, Yiannopoulos joined the other three to answer questions from viewers.

The starting-off point was when Yiannopoulos defended his criticism of a transgender person and saying, without offering evidence, that transgender people were involved in a disproportionate number of sex crimes. Wilborn objected, saying that for a long time, homosexuality was considered a disorder.

Maybe it is, said Yiannopoulos, who is gay.

Maybe you are, Wilborn said, But most homosexuals are not.

Nance observed that Yiannopoulos seemed confused about who and what he was. When Maher tried to referee, Yiannopoulos said that he always seemed to have awful people on the show, who are so stupid.

Thats when Wilmore exploded, telling Yiannopoulos to go (bleep) yourself.

When the oddity of an openly gay man being seen as a leader of the alt-right movement was pointed out, Yiannopoulos said that the worst people on the far left and far right all hate me.

Retorted Wilmore: I think youre leaving out a lot of people.

Nance added an expletive when the Breitbart editor said he had no problems with the issue of President Donald Trump and ties to Russian, profanely dismissing him because he was not an American. Yiannopoulos is British.

It stopped there. Kingston declined a chance to be the third panelist to swear at Yiannopoulos.

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