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, 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, Bill Maher, Michael Eric Dyson, Alex Wagner, Jon Meacham, Jenna Ellis, Caitlin Flanagan, Max Brooks, Al Franken, David Sanger, John Heilemann, Lis Smith, Ben Sheehan, Matthew McConaughey, Heidi Heitkamp, Anthony Scaramucci, Fareed Zakaria, John Leguizamo, Noah Rothman, John Avlon, Rep. Adam Schiff, John O. Brennan, Keli Goff, Bret Stephens, Bernie Sanders, Jim Belushi, Coleman Hughes, Bakari Sellers, John Kasich, Oliver Stone, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Thomas Frank

Episodes

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

May 22, 2020: Thomas Friedman, Dr. Cate Shanahan, Michael Moore

15. May 22, 2020: Thomas Friedman, Dr. Cate Shanahan, Michael Moore

Guests: New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman; physician and author, Dr. Cat...

May 29, 2020

16. May 29, 2020

Guests: celebrity chef Tom Colicchio; comedian Jay Leno. Plus, a virtual panel w...

June 5, 2020

17. June 5, 2020

Guests: Michael Render, Frank Figliuzzi, Michael Steele, Rosa Brooks.

June 12, 2020

18. June 12, 2020

Guests: Radley Balko, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, Larry Wilmore, Matt Welch.

June 19, 2020

19. June 19, 2020

Guests: Susan Rice and George Will; plus, this edition features a virtual panel ...

June 26, 2020

20. June 26, 2020

Guests: John Bolton and Kara Swisher; plus, a virtual panel with Wes Moore and J...

July 31, 2020

21. July 31, 2020

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

August 7, 2020

22. August 7, 2020

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

August 14, 2020

23. August 14, 2020

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

August 21, 2020

24. August 21, 2020

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

August 28, 2020

25. August 28, 2020

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

September 11, 2020

26. September 11, 2020

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

September 18, 2020

27. September 18, 2020

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

September 25, 2020

28. September 25, 2020

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

October 9, 2020

29. October 9, 2020

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

October 16, 2020

30. October 16, 2020

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

October 23, 2020

31. October 23, 2020

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

October 30, 2020

32. October 30, 2020

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

November 6, 2020

33. November 6, 2020

Guests: Tristan Harris, Malcolm Nance, Rosa Brooks.

November 13, 2020

34. November 13, 2020

Guests: Jenna Ellis, Caitlin Flanagan, Max Brooks.

November 20, 2020

35. November 20, 2020

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

January 15, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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