Bill Maher closed out the 500th episode of his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher with a bruising appraisal of the Democratic Party’s feckless options for 2020 and a point-by-point explanation of why there is one (and only one) “sure-thing winner” for the opposition party: Oprah Winfrey. “I am telling you, at this…

Daddy issues were front and center on tonight’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as HBO’s Friday night franchise celebrated Father’s Day weekend by mocking the nation’s presidential papa as the antithesis of patriarchal integrity and parental responsibility. “Republicans really see Trump as a father figure,” Maher…

The namesake host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has some rules for the Democratic Party to memorize as they ramp up for a 2020 rematch with President Donald J. Trump. “I want all Democrats to memorize these two words: Message Discipline,” Maher said with the tones of a weary teacher addressing a remedial class…

Fran Lebowitz said she regrets that “everyone misinterpreted” her comment onb Bill Maher’s Real Time Friday night, when she suggested the U.S. turn President Donald Trump “over to the Saudis, his buddies – the same Saudis who got rid of that reporter.” “Maybe they could do the same for him,” she told Maher, who had…

The Hero Nation Index is a Monday round-up of news from the genre sector (sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, horror, and animation). Game For More? Author George R.R. Martin says HBO’s first Game of Thrones “successor show” (aka spin-off) will begin filming this year while two others are…

Could the constitutional crisis gripping Washington represent an attack on Democracy? It certainly seemed plausible tonight watching HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, a show hosted by a human air-raid siren of the same name. Maher’s monologue  went early and often to the Washington showdown over the Mueller report and…

It’s mid-April so a lot of people are thinking about big returns — for some that return involves the IRS, for others it’s another pilgrimage to the low desert to see the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Income Tax Day is Monday, Coachella’s opening weekend is already underway and both timely topics were front…

Bill Maher came out strongly in favor of Veep Joe Biden's decision to make jokes on Friday about his past uncomfortable-making hugging and hair-kissing of women. The presumed Dem candidate “is still at large,” Maher joked at the top of his HBO late night show, Real Time. "Women are still being urged to walk at night…

Well, there certainly was no shortage of national news for the host to dig into Friday on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher tonight. Writers likely had to scramble to update the monologue after word surfaced that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had wrapped his probe of Russian meddling the 2016 U.S. election and…

Bill Maher used his final “New Rules” segment on Real Time on Friday to continue hitting at a theme that he, a Democrat himself, has been hitting at for years: that Democrats should “grow a pair,” because they “look weak, running from a fight when they should be in there throwing punches.” The comments came about in…

Bill Maher has a New Rule you won't see on his HBO late-night show. The Real Time star weighs in on "hipster douches" who wear Canada Goose parkas, in a new PSA for PETA Shot before Maher’s HBO show taped last Friday, he did not mince words: "New rule: No more douches. I mean the hipster douches who piss away $1,000…

UPDATED with video. Bill Maher closed a fairly by-the-book episode of HBO’s Real Time with an inspired anti-P.C. monologue linking leftist criticism of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates with attacks on this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees for various sociopolitical reasons. “This time, let’s not eat our own,&#8221…