Real Time with Bill Maher

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

4.2

45 reviews

Brenda k Davis

January 17, 2021

I thought I was buying the current episodes (season 19) but I'm getting old shows. Can't get in touch w/google to be refunded. Don't care for Google's system to contact them when there are problems. If they're a monopoly, that's still illegal.

Michelle Harris

February 26, 2019

Bill has invitees from varied arenas. He holds no punches. Let's us know we can do something but we have to greet up and get involved about those who are making decisions for Americans that do no benefit Americans. All of us can make a change in how the government makes decisions that effect our lives only. This is supposed to be a government for the people by the people. Remember they work for US. WE PAY THEIR SALARIES FROM OUR TAXES.

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Shelly Simpson

October 31, 2020

Bill, keep telling it like it is. People don't like you for that reason, but yet they continue to watch you. I would guess a majority of those critical of your show are closet atheists and closet Democrats/Liberals. Much respect and admiration for you! Only complaint, please talk about being non religious more. Share your views about religion and it's sheeples. Connect the dots for how religion plays out in politics for peeps new to your show. ✌

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