Bill Maher might want to pick up a ticket to the Eras Tour on his way to the polls. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian marveled at Taylor Swift‘s influence after she previously announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris and drove more than 400,000 potential voters to the registration site.
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As Cheryl Hynes continues to face fallout over her husband’s political doings, Bill Maher has a message for her haters. Although he noted on Friday’s episode of HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher that he “couldn’t support” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president, the comedian stood up for the former candidate’s wife from social media
After a month-long hiatus, Bill Maher is catching up with today’s internet slang… in real time. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host attempted to understand the Brat phenomenon and Charli XCX‘s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as he spoke with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins about the 2024 presidential election.
There was no debating it – Bill Maher‘s Real Time was going to talk about Thursday night’s presidential candidates battle and the consequences of Joe Biden’s performance. Maher started the show with a couple jabs, noting that Trump would not have gotten away with his tall tales if only Joe Biden had been present. It
Bill Maher stumped tonight on Real Time for the U.S. release of The Apprentice, the Cannes Competition title starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong as Trump’s onetime firebrand lawyer, Roy Cohn. “It looks great,” said Maher before observing, “This is Trump’s origin story under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.” The Real
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God told Bill Maher on Friday’s Real Time that his appeal is that his audience thinks he’s sincere in his beliefs. Among his beliefs: that Caitlin Clark’s immediate impact on the WNBA is because – in a league where the majority of women are Black and there’s a large number of
It was near the end of his one-on-one interview with Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman that Real Time host Bill Maher asked the question that people have been requesting for weeks – “What’s the deal with the wardrobe?” Fetterman, who was instrumental in getting a stuffy Senate to relax its dress code, came to Maher’s show
Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. To explain the war of words, Maher brought in Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University and author of the book Unequal:
Eric Schlosser knows food. Not in the way Bobby Flay or Giada De Laurentiis does, but in a scholarly manner that knows its affects on the health of anyone who eats. The author of the classic study Fast Food Nation and an EP on several films, Schlosser came to Bill Maher‘s Friday Real Time as
Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and front man for the Who Roger Daltrey has a solo North American tour on June 10. So he stopped by Bill Maher‘s Real Time on Friday to do some reminiscing on his long career and what comes next. After thanking Daltrey “for all the entertainment over
When did Columbia become Kanye State? Bill Maher asked that question at the top of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, setting the tone for a show that focused on the national campus unrest and what’s behind it. Maher attempted to answer that himself in his “New Rules” editorial, saying in a message to protesters blocking
When you have William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, on your show, you get to ask the Star Trek questions you’ve always wanted answered. That’s what Bill Maher managed to do on Friday’s Real Time, as he probed one of pop culture’s most interesting moments — the interracial kiss between Captain Kirk and Lt.
It’s no secret that Real Time host Bill Maher enjoys a toke now and then. He was the cover boy for L.A. Magazine’s recent 420 issue, and brings he habit up frequently on the show. But that mellow side of him disguises the pitbull that has his favorite targets and topics to attack. This week’s
It was a scatter-shot Real Time from Bill Maher on Friday night. During the course of his conversations, the blame game fell on just about everyone, from politicians to tech titans to those staging St. Patrick’s Day parades. The night started with tech reporter Kara Swisher, host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher, co-host
On the one side, you have an atheist and avowed bachelor. On the other, a psychologist who thinks family and faith are the keys to progress from our current problems. Those polar opposites made for some intense sparring on Friday’s Real Time, as Bill Maher faced off aganst a fiesty Dr. Phil McGraw, author of
“I don’t think you’ve can judge that from Barbie not getting nominated,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tonight to Bill Maher when asked by the host if the snub of the blockbuster’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie in the Oscars nominations means America is a patriarchy or not. When Maher tried to link
The topics covered on Bill Maher‘s Real Time on Friday were no laughing matter – inflation, crime, the suppression of free speech, the war in Ukraine, antisemitism on campus. One area of special interest was when the talk turned to crime. Guest Jane Ferguson, an award-winning special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, contributor to The New Yorker,
“Writing,” Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet told Bill Maher on Friday’s Real Time, “is just making shit up.” Mamet has made a successful career of that, creating such plays as Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow, and writing/directing such films as Heist, Wag the Dog and Hannibal, among others. Now, he’s out with
It was the Thanksgiving show for Bill Maher‘s Real Time, typically his last show of the fall season before a hiatus. But because of the Writers Guild strikes, the show will go on into December. That’s reason enough to be thankful. But Maher had an added reason for grace on Friday’s show – he had
Oil and water. Oscar and Felix. Entering tonight’s Real Time, you’d expect Sen. Ted Cruz and Bill Maher to fit into that “don’t mix” category. You’d be wrong, for the most part. Although they sparred at times, the two political opposites found that they were often on the same page. Cruz is out supporting his
“Western civilization is what gave the word every goddamn liberal precept to adore,” Bill Maher thundered during his “New Rules” editorial on Friday’s Real Time. He went on to list religious freedom and other benefits. So, Maher contended, citing a recent statement from President Joe Biden, “The world would be a better place if we
How do you deal with a world where finger-pointing, bureaucracy, mob actions and a lack of initiative stall progress? That was the running theme of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, as a downbeat Bill Maher took on a world that was clearly vexing him greatly. The show started out with an appearance by former Democratic
It’s been a tough week in the world, and that posed a difficult challenge for Bill Maher on his Real Time show on Friday. How do you conduct a show built on political comedy when the subject matter is so grim? But Maher navigated the thorny issues with grace, finding the humor in throwbacks to
Bill Maher was off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Friday’s edition of Real Time on HBO. Maher kept the focus squarely on politics in his opening monologue and in his panel discussion, with particular emphasis on covering the immigration border
“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis tonight of the poll lagging Florida Governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with the Walt Disney Company over the last year. “Well, first of all, they picked a fight with us,” a literally suited and cowboy booted DeSantis defensively replied
Bill Maher is the latest host to postpone his return to work. Maher said that Real Time with Bill Maher will not, as previously planned, return to HBO on September 22. He joins the likes of Drew Barrymore and The Talk in delaying returning to the studio. Over the weekend, a slew of hosts including
Elon Musk and Bill Maher found common ground on Friday’s Real Time on HBO. Both have been damned if they do and damned if they don’t for various controversies. After a long recitation of Musk’s various business activities, Maher said he knows that Musk is okay because he does things with a sense of humor,
Bill Maher had some thoughts about Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Real Time tonight. After going over the settlement and how it delivered Fox execs and Fox News personalities from testifying under oath, Maher concluded, “This way they avoided a trial and the harrowing prospect of having to swear to tell
It was a week full of news, from the looming Donald Trump indictment through the Nashville school shooting. Or as Bill Maher put it on Friday’s Real Time, “March came in like a lion, and went out with Trump on the lam.” Maher was obviously delighted that Trump, one of his favorite targets, had a
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break was a 1941 movie from W.C. Fields. But it could have been the theme to Bill Maher’s Real Time on Friday night. From Donald Trump’s latest foibles, through TikTok’s right to exist in the US, to the growing lost generation of young men, Maher and his guests tried