Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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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.

Starring: Bill Maher, Quentin Tarantino, Max Brooks, Dan Carlin, Nikki Glaser, Paul Begala, Jane Coaston, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Rachel Bitecofer, Rob Reiner, Rep. Ritchie Torres, John Kasich, Chris Matthews, Bob Costas, Nicholas Kristof, James Carville, John McWhorter, Rick Wilson, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Ben Sheehan, Thomas Frank, Nancy MacLean, Fran Lebowitz, S.E. Cupp, April Ryan, Sharon Osbourne, Ian Bremmer, Rosa Brooks, Sen. Alex Padilla, Heather McGhee, Reihan Salam, Christopher Krebs, Caitlin Flanagan, Bret Stephens, David Shor, Nick Gillespie, Heidi Heitkamp, Annabelle Gurwitch, Scott Galloway, Larry Wilmore, Joe Scarborough, Frank Bruni, Charlamagne Tha God, Megyn Kelly, Ezra Klein, Sen. Jon Tester, Adam Kinzinger, Markos Moulitsas, Steve Schmidt, Jimmy Kimmel, Charlotte Alter, Matt Welch, Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein, Van Jones, James Pogue, Frank Figliuzzi, Peter Hamby, Kmele Foster, Kellyanne Conway, Katie Couric, Matt Jones, Michael Eric Dyson, Alex Wagner, Jon Meacham, Jenna Ellis, Al Franken, David Sanger, John Heilemann, Lis Smith, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Scaramucci, Fareed Zakaria, John Leguizamo, Noah Rothman, John Avlon, Rep. Adam Schiff, John O. Brennan, Keli Goff, Bernie Sanders, Jim Belushi, Coleman Hughes, Bakari Sellers, Oliver Stone, Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Episodes

Bill Maher returns for the 18th hit season of his award-winning HBO comedy/talk series.

July 31, 2020: Kerry Washington, Jim Carrey, Bari Weiss

536. July 31, 2020: Kerry Washington, Jim Carrey, Bari Weiss

Guests: Kerry Washington, Jim Carrey, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Bari Weiss.

August 7, 2020: Lawrence Wilkerson, Chris Evans, Paul Begala

537. August 7, 2020: Lawrence Wilkerson, Chris Evans, Paul Begala

Guests: Lawrence Wilkerson,Chris Evans, Paul Begala, Meghan Daum.

August 14, 2020: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Colin Cowherd, Pete Buttigieg

538. August 14, 2020: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Colin Cowherd, Pete Buttigieg

Guests: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Colin Cowherd, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang.

August 21, 2020: John Kasich, Oliver Stone, Rev. Dr. William Barber II

539. August 21, 2020: John Kasich, Oliver Stone, Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Guests: Former Ohio Governor John Kasich, Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Oliver Ston...

August 28, 2020: Trey Gowdy, Wynton Marsalis, Nina Burleigh

540. August 28, 2020: Trey Gowdy, Wynton Marsalis, Nina Burleigh

Guests: Trey Gowdy, Wynton Marsalis, Nina Burleigh, Rick Wilson.

September 11, 2020: Peter Strzok, Ewan McGregor, Peter Hamby

541. September 11, 2020: Peter Strzok, Ewan McGregor, Peter Hamby

Guests: Peter Strzok, Ewan McGregor, Peter Hamby, Jessica Yellin.

September 18, 2020: Michael Cohen, Jane Fonda, Tim Miller

542. September 18, 2020: Michael Cohen, Jane Fonda, Tim Miller

Guests: Podcast Host Michael Cohen; actress and activist Jane Fonda; The Bulwark...

September 25, 2020: Bernie Sanders, Jim Belushi, Coleman Hughes

543. September 25, 2020: Bernie Sanders, Jim Belushi, Coleman Hughes

Guests: Senator Bernie Sanders, Jim Belushi, Coleman Hughes, Bakari Sellers.

October 9, 2020: Adam Schiff, John O. Brennan, Keli Goff

544. October 9, 2020: Adam Schiff, John O. Brennan, Keli Goff

Guests: Rep. Adam Schiff, John O. Brennan, Keli Goff, Bret Stephens.

October 16, 2020: Fareed Zakaria, John Leguizamo, Noah Rothman

545. October 16, 2020: Fareed Zakaria, John Leguizamo, Noah Rothman

Guests: Fareed Zakaria, John Leguizamo, Noah Rothman, John Avlon.

October 23, 2020: Ben Sheehan, Matthew McConaughey, Heidi Heitkamp

546. October 23, 2020: Ben Sheehan, Matthew McConaughey, Heidi Heitkamp

Guests: Ben Sheehan, Matthew McConaughey, Heidi Heitkamp, Anthony Scaramucci.

October 30, 2020: Al Franken, David Sanger, John Heilemann, Lis Smith

547. October 30, 2020: Al Franken, David Sanger, John Heilemann, Lis Smith

Guests: Al Franken, David Sanger, John Heilemann, Lis Smith.

November 6, 2020: Tristan Harris, Malcolm Nance, Rosa Brooks

548. November 6, 2020: Tristan Harris, Malcolm Nance, Rosa Brooks

Guests: Tristan Harris, Malcolm Nance, Rosa Brooks.

November 13, 2020: Jenna Ellis, Caitlin Flanagan, Max Brooks

549. November 13, 2020: Jenna Ellis, Caitlin Flanagan, Max Brooks

Guests: Jenna Ellis, Caitlin Flanagan, Max Brooks.

November 20, 2020: Michael Eric Dyson, Alex Wagner, Jon Meacham

550. November 20, 2020: Michael Eric Dyson, Alex Wagner, Jon Meacham

Guests: Michael Eric Dyson, Alex Wagner, Jon Meacham.

January 15, 2021: Kellyanne Conway, Katie Couric, Matt Jones

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!

January 22, 2021: Frank Figliuzzi, Peter Hamby, Kmele Foster

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.

January 29, 2021: Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein, Van Jones

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.

February 5, 2021: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlotte Alter, Matt Welch

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.

February 12, 2021: Adam Kinzinger, Markos Moulitsas, Steve Schmidt

Guests: Rep. Adam Kinzinger – Republican Congressman who represents Illinois' 16th Congressional District and Founder of the Country First PAC; Markos Moulitsas – Founder and Publisher of The Daily Kos and co-host of The Brief podcast; Steve Schmidt – MSNBC Political Analyst and Founder of the political action committee, The Lincoln Project.

February 26, 2021: Megyn Kelly, Ezra Klein, Sen. Jon Tester

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.

March 5, 2021: Joe Scarborough, Frank Bruni, Charlamagne Tha God

Guests: Joe Scarborough – Co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe and author of Saving Freedom; Truman, The Cold War and the Fight for Western Civilization; Frank Bruni – Columnist for The New York Times; Charlamagne Tha God – Co-Host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club on iHeart Radio and author of Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me.

March 12, 2021: Annabelle Gurwitch, Scott Galloway, Larry Wilmore

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.

March 19, 2021: David Shor, Nick Gillespie, Heidi Heitkamp

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.

March 26, 2021: Christopher Krebs, Caitlin Flanagan, Bret Stephens

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.

April 9, 2021: Sen. Alex Padilla, Heather McGhee, Reihan Salam

Guests: Senator Alex Padilla – Former Secretary of State of California who now serves as a Democratic Senator from California; Heather McGhee – Author of the New York Times bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together; Reihan Salam – President of The Manhattan Institute and Contributing Writer at The Atlantic.

April 16, 2021: Sharon Osbourne, Ian Bremmer, Rosa Brooks

Guests: Sharon Osbourne – Television personality and former host of CBS' The Talk; Ian Bremmer – President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media who hosts GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer on PBS; Rosa Brooks – Law Professor at Georgetown University and author of the new book Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.

April 23, 2021: Fran Lebowitz, S.E. Cupp, April Ryan

Guests: Fran Lebowitz – Former Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair who stars in the 7-part Netflix series Pretend It's a City; S.E. Cupp – Nationally Syndicated Columnist and CNN Contributor who hosts CNN's SE Cupp: Unfiltered; April Ryan – Author of At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White and DC Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for TheGrio.com.

April 30, 2021: Ben Sheehan, Thomas Frank, Nancy MacLean

Guests: 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.

May 7, 2021: John McWhorter, Rick Wilson, Rep. Elissa Slotkin

Guests: 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.

May 28, 2021: Bob Costas, Nicholas Kristof, James Carville

Guests: Bob Costas – 29-time Emmy-winning broadcaster who hosts Back on the Record With Bob Costas coming to HBO this summer; Nicholas Kristof – Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The New York Times and co-author of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope; James Carville – Democratic strategist and co-host of the weekly podcast Politics War Room with James Carville and Al Hunt.

June 4, 2021: Rep. Ritchie Torres, John Kasich, Chris Matthews

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.

June 11, 2021: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rachel Bitecofer, Rob Reiner

Guests: 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.

June 18, 2021: Nikki Glaser, Paul Begala, Jane Coaston

Guests: 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.

June 25, 2021: Quentin Tarantino, Max Brooks, Dan Carlin

Guests: 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.

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