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Real Time with Bill Maher

2003
2.8
5 reviews
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Season 19 episodes (35)

1 551
1/24/21
Guests: Kellyanne Conway – Former Senior Counselor to President Trump; Katie Couric – Award-winning journalist and Co-Founder of Katie Couric Media; Matt Jones – Founder and Host of "Kentucky Sports Radio" and the author of Mitch, Please!
2 552
1/31/21
Guests: Frank Figliuzzi – Former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and author of The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence; Peter Hamby – Host of Snapchat's political show Good Luck America and contributing writer for Vanity Fair; Kmele Foster – Co-host of The Fifth Column podcast.
3 553
2/7/21
Guests: Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein – Evolutionary Biologists, co-hosts of The Dark Horse podcast, and co-authors of the forthcoming book A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century; Van Jones – CNN Political Commentator and CEO of REFORM Alliance; James Pogue – Journalist and Contributing Editor at Harper's Magazine.
4 554
2/14/21
Guests: Jimmy Kimmel – Host of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!; Charlotte Alter – Senior Correspondent at TIME and author of The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America; Matt Welch – Host of The Reason Roundtable podcast and Co-Host of The Fifth Column podcast.
5 555
2/21/21
This week an all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher.
6 556
3/7/21
Guests: Megyn Kelly – Journalist and Host of The Megyn Kelly Show podcast; Ezra Klein – New York Times Opinion Columnist and Host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast; Sen. Jon Tester – Democratic Senator from Montana and author of Grounded: A Senator's Lessons on Winning Back Rural America.
7 557
3/14/21
This week an all new episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.
8 558
3/21/21
Guests: Annabelle Gurwitch – New York Times bestselling author and host of the new podcast Tiny Victories; Scott Galloway – Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern and author of Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity; Larry Wilmore – Co-Creator of HBO's Insecure and Executive Producer of the Netflix Docuseries Amend: The Fight For America.
9 559
3/28/21
Guests: David Shor – Head of Data Science with Open Labs and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund; Nick Gillespie – Editor-At-Large at Reason and Host of The Reason Interview podcast; Heidi Heitkamp – Former Democratic Senator from North Dakota and Co-Founder of One Country Project.
10 560
4/4/21
Guests: Christopher Krebs – Former US Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Caitlin Flanagan – Staff Writer at the Atlantic who authored the April cover story Private Schools are Indefensible: The Gulf Between How Rich Kids and Poor Kids Are Educated in America is Obscene; Bret Stephens – Columnist for the New York Times and an MSNBC contributor
11 561
4/18/21
This week an all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher.
12 562
4/25/21
This week an all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher.
13 563
5/2/21
This week an all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher.
14 564
5/9/21
Ben Sheehan – Founder of OMG WTF and author of OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?; Thomas Frank – Author of The People, NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism; Nancy MacLean – Historian at Duke University and the author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
15 565
5/16/21
John McWhorter – Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic and author of Nine Nasty Words, English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever; Rick Wilson – Republican Strategist and #1 NYT bestselling author; Rep. Elissa Slotkin – Democratic Congresswoman who represents Michigan's 8th district.
16 566
5/30/21
This week an all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher.
17 567
6/13/21
Guests: Rep. Ritchie Torres – Democratic Congressman representing New York’s 15th district who at 25 years old, became NYC’s youngest elected official and the first Afro-Latino, LGBTQ Member of Congress; John Kasich – Former Governor of Ohio who is now a senior commentator for CNN; Chris Matthews – Former host of MSNBC’s Hardball.
18 568
6/20/21
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, host of the Webby-Nominated podcast StarTalk, and author of the new book Cosmic Queries; Rachel Bitecofer – Political scientist and co-founder of Strike PAC; Rob Reiner – Filmmaker and activist.
19 569
6/27/21
Nikki Glaser – Comedian, host of The Nikki Glaser Podcast and host of HBO Max's forthcoming reality series FBoy Island; Paul Begala – Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator; Jane Coaston – Host of the New York Times' podcast The Argument.
20 570
7/4/21
Quentin Tarantino – Filmmaker, screenwriter, and author, whose new novel is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood based on his Oscar-winning film of the same title; Max Brooks – Senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; Dan Carlin – Host of the podcast Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.
21 571
8/9/21
Guests: Eric Adams – Brooklyn Borough President who’s the Democratic nominee for NYC Mayor and author of Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses; Joshua Green – Senior National Correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek; Rep. Stacey Plaskett – Democratic Congresswoman representing the United States Virgin Islands.
22 572
8/15/21
Guests: Donna de Varona – Two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming and founding member of Women’s Sports Policy Working Group; Ben Shapiro – Host of the podcast The Ben Shapiro Show and author of The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent; Malcolm Nance - Career U.S. Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer and MSNBC Contributor.
23 573
8/22/21
Guests: Martin Short & Steve Martin – Actors, comedians, and co-stars of the new series Only Murders in the Building; Donna Brazile – Columnist for USA Today and contributor to ABC News; Michael Moynihan – National Correspondent for Vice News Tonight and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast.
24 574
8/29/21
Guests: Andrew Sullivan – Blogger on The Weekly Dish on Substack; Jackie Calmes – Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times; Max Rose – Former Democratic Congressman who represented New York’s 11th district and the former Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for COVID-19.
25 575
9/5/21
Guests: Craig Whitlock – Washington Post Investigative Journalist and author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War; Katty Kay – Washington Editor of Ozy Media; Ralph Reed – Founder and Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
26 576
9/19/21
Guests: Rep. Barbara Lee – Democratic Congresswoman who represents California’s 13th district; Christina Bellantoni – Director of the Media Center at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Contributing Editor of The 19th News; George F. Will – Washington Post Columnist and author of American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020.
27 577
9/26/21
Guests: Anne Applebaum – Staff writer at The Atlantic, Fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and author; Gillian Tett – Chair of the editorial board and U.S. Editor-at-Large of The Financial Times, and author; Dan Savage – Columnist for Savage Love.
28 578
10/3/21
Guests: Tristan Harris – Co-founder of The Center for Humane Technology and co-host of the podcast Your Undivided Attention; Jennifer Rubin – Washington Post opinion columnist, MSNBC contributor, and author of Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy From Donald Trump; Richard Ojeda – National spokesperson for No Dem Left Behind and host of the daily webcast Ojeda Live.
29 579
10/10/21
Steven Van Zandt - musician, actor, and activist whose new book is Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir; Katherine Mangu-Ward - Editor-in-Chief of Reason and co-host of The Reason Roundtable podcast; Matt Taibbi - Editor of TK News on Substack and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper.
30 580
10/17/21
Steven Pinker – Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of the book Rationality: What It Is: Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters; Robert Costa – Reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the new book PERIL; Michael Render (aka Killer Mike) – Activist and musician who’s one half of the group Run The Jewels.
31 581
10/31/21
Saru Jayaraman - Director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center, President of One Fair Wage, and author of the new book One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America; Andrew Yang - Founder of the Forward Party and author of Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy; John McWhorter - Newsletter Opinion Writer for The New York Times and author.
32 582
11/7/21
Sean Spicer – Former Press Secretary to President Trump and author of Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America; Caitlin Flanagan – Staff Writer at The Atlantic; Sen. Chris Coons – Democratic Senator from Delaware and the Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.
33 583
11/14/21
Senator Amy Klobuchar – Senior Senator from Minnesota and author of Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age; Glenn Loury – Professor of Economics at Brown University who hosts The Glenn Show; Michael Eric Dyson – Professor at Vanderbilt University and author of Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America.
34 584
11/21/21
Guests: Kevin O'Leary - Venture Capitalist, Founder of O'Leary Fine Wines, and Co-Host of ABC’s Shark Tank; Tavis Smiley - Mid-morning Host of KBLA TALK 1580, every weekday from 9am-Noon; Rep. Adam Schiff - Democratic Congressman from California and author of the new book Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.
35 585
11/28/21
Guests: Fareed Zakaria – Author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World; Chris Christie – Former New Jersey Governor and author of the book Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden; Eric Adams – Retired police officer, current Brooklyn Borough President, and Mayor-Elect of New York City.

About this show

Bill Maher hosts this live one-hour talk series that features an opening monologue, 'roundtable discussions with Maher and a guest forum, segments with other special guests, and Maher's 'New Rules' segment that exposes society's most absurd habits and institutions.

Ratings and reviews

2.8
5 reviews
Jo
October 26, 2021
The show has gone downhill recently. It used to be good.
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Terry Barker
October 31, 2020
It's a funny show that can make fun of both sides and everything else in this crazy world.
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Fry
April 10, 2020
What garbage.
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