Real Time With Bill Maher

HBO Renews "Real Time With Bill Maher" -- With Time Change

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media


HBO has renewed "Real Time With Bill Maher" for an eighth season. The political talk show will return Friday, Feb. 19 when it will move from its pr...

Bill Maher Talks Balloon Boy, Interviews Rep. Alan Grayson (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy


On "Real Time" this Friday, Maher began his show with a monologue about the the "balloon boy" saga surrounding the Heene family. Maher made some fun...

Bill Maher On The Year In Ridiculous Republicans (VIDEO)

Posted 10.17.2009 | Comedy


On ""Real Time" Friday night, Bill Maher decided to end his show by mocking all the Republicans who have become prime targets for jokes now that Georg...

Bill Maher Is Still Wrong About Swine Flu Vaccine

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Linda Bergthold

It's quite legitimate to ask about the evidence for the importance of vaccinations. But getting vaccinated or not is not simply a personal decision. It affects your family and everyone you associate with.

"Sell The Vatican Save The World": Sarah Silverman's Campaign To End Hunger (VIDEO)

Posted 10.11.2009 | Comedy


We're pretty sure offering the Pope "pussy" is inappropriate, but doing it in the name of solving world hunger seems a little less crazy. Sarah Silver...

Bill Maher is wrong about the swine flu

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Linda Bergthold

There is a lot of fear-mongering about the dangers or effectiveness of vaccines, particularly swine flu vaccine. But if you look at the sources of this information, they come from less than credible sources.

Bill Maher: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Because It Will Make Rush Limbaugh "Explode" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy


On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher suggested that this weekend was the perfect time for President Obama to announce that he would repeal "don't as...

Bill Maher Slams GOP Climate Change Skeptics: They're "So Stupid They Make Me Question Evolution" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green


On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party, insisting that they must "sto...

Spitzer and Bloomberg -- Not Again

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.27.2009 | New York


Michael B. Laskoff

I don't get too exercised about Spitzer's adultery or prostitution. None of that, however, means that a megalomaniac hypocrite who got caught with his genitals in the cookie jar should run again.

New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Bill Maher | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy


Bill Maher

If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute.

Maher Rips Baucus Bill: "I'm Going To Start Going To Town Halls And Screaming Now" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy


Bill Maher opened his show Friday night with a blistering monologue that took aim at the health care bill Senator Max Baucus released this week. "It...

Bill Maher Challenges Obama: "Stand Up For The 70 Percent Of Americans Who Aren't Crazy" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy


On "Real Time" Friday night, host Bill Maher closed his show with some sharp words for the Obama administration with regards to how they have responde...

What's Wrong With Real Time with Bill Maher?

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media


Marshall Fine

Here's what drives me crazy about Bill Maher and his Real Time show: The guy couldn't do an interesting interview if his life depended on it.

Healthcare Despair

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Dr. Susan Corso

Until everyone has health care none of us really do.

For Team Obama, A Refresher on Jack Johnson and "The Great White Hope"

Dave Zirin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Dave Zirin

In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champion defeated a racist "great white hope." But when the Obama Administration takes a right hook to the face, it just smiles through bloodied teeth.

Bill Moyers On Health Care Reform: "We're All In The Same Boat"

Huffingtion Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Bill Moyers appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night for a long conversation, much of which focused on health care. When asked by Maher wh...

Sahil Kapur

Jeremy Scahill Slams Chuck Todd, Media, Congress Over Blackwater On "Real Time With Bill Maher" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics


Jeremy Scahill sparred with NBC political director Chuck Todd on Friday, forcefully criticizing journalists and lawmakers for treading lightly on Blac...

Bill Maher Explores What A Health Care "Death Panel" Would Look Like (VIDEO)

Posted 09.16.2009 | Comedy


With Republicans warning (falsely) the nation's elderly that health care reform will implement "death panels" to mercilessly determine whether you des...

Arianna Discusses "Pigs At The Trough" On "Real Time With Bill Maher" (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 09.09.2009 | Home


Huff TV

On Friday night, Arianna appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" alongside Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and discussed the re...

Arianna Appears On "Real Time with Bill Maher," Spars With Jack Kingston And Darrell Issa

Huff TV | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics


Huff TV

Arianna appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night alongside Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). During the show's 'Over...

New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country

Bill Maher | Posted 09.07.2009 | Comedy


Bill Maher

New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. And before I go about demonstrating how, let me just say that ignorance has life and death consequences.

New Rule: Bill Maher Must Win an Emmy!

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home


Arianna Huffington

It's time to get it together and honor a man who week in and week out presides over one the best places on television to find edgy, unapologetic, and laugh-til-it-hurts political and social commentary, rooted in deep conviction. I would be saying exactly the same thing if Bill and I hadn't been friends for over 15 years. But I'm sure glad that we have.

Bill Maher: Obama Drank A 40 While Sonia Sotomayor Brought The Guacamole (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


Bill Maher phoned-in for an interview on "Way Too Early with Willie Geist" Friday morning, staying awake until 2:40AM on the West coast to do Geist's...

Bill Maher: US Is Just Like Michael Jackson--"Fragile, Over-Indulgent, In Debt, Over The Hill" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home


On "Real Time" Friday Bill Maher went on a diatribe about how the reason America mourned Michael Jackson so intensely--or as Maher put, lost its "coll...

MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living


Abby L. Ferber

Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.