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Bill Maher sat down with former Fox News and NBC News personality Megyn Kelly for the leadoff interview Friday on HBO’s Real Time, but their discussion didn’t focus on her former employers or her controversial past at all. Instead, they had a frank talk about race, social justice and 21st century “victimhood” in…

Marjorie Taylor Greene was the recurring topic of the latest episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. The comedian, and his guests, CNN political commentator and CEO of REFORM Alliance Van Jones, and James Pogue, journalist and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine tackled the topic of conspiracy theories during…

Bill Maher opened Friday’s Real Time with a round of applause for “a semi-peaceful transition of power.” Maher also applauded the arrival of a new administration and the comic possibilities it presents. In celebration, he spent the first 90 seconds of his monologue on Joe Biden before turning back to Donald Trump…

Kellyanne Conway denounced the storming of the Capitol and said she had insisted to President Trump for months that he'd lost the election, but otherwise found little common ground with Bill Maher over the legacy of the last four years. "How do you look back now … anything go wrong?" the host of HBO's Real Time With…

In tonight’s season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host invoked the case of New York-based sex cult Nxivm in suggesting a way to handle Donald Trump supporters who believe the election was stolen. “The challenge for us is, how do you get people out of a cult?” Maher asked. “Especially when every time you…

Bill Maher's penultimate Real Time before the holidays packed a wallop. Maher began by trying to have a civil conversation with Jenna Ellis, a Senior Legal Advisor for the Trump 2020 campaign. He thanked Ellis for being brave enough to be on the show. He then tried to allow her to state her case. Ellis ran through a…

UPDATED with video: Joe Biden won the election, Bill Maher declared Friday, although you wouldn't know it watching network anchors obsess about tens of votes in counties from four remaining states where the former VP  is ahead and over the top in electoral votes. "The networks are still too chickensh*t to call it,"…

In what was the final Real Time with Bill Maher episode before the 2020 election, the host welcomed Al Franken, former US Senator from Minnesota, and one of the original writers and sometimes player on Saturday Night Live. The meeting of joke-telling veterans wasn’t always comedy gold — far from it — but they engaged…

Bill Maher Friday compared Democrats trying to vote to an obstacle course competition show "where a contestant has to get across a terrain of giant bouncy balls and slippery balance beams and swing on frigging ropes like Tarzan.” "It occurred to me while watching this, watching Ricardo lose his grip on a foam roller…

Bill Maher lit into Amy Coney Barrett and the Catholic Church, saying the prospective Supreme Court justice has been “”groomed since birth” to overturn Roe v. Wade. As the Real Time host began tonight’s show-ending monologue about Barrett, he joked that he had nothing against Catholics “except my entire upbringing.&#8221…

"If we need them to save us from Donald Trump, can they and will they?" Bill Maher bluntly asked John O. Brennan — referring to the U.S. intelligence services — after the ex-CIA chief confessed that Trump is "without question" what that worries him most. “No, Brennan said. Members of the intelligence community are…

Bill Maher will stay on HBO screens until at least 2022 after the premium cable network renewed his weekly talk show. Real Time with Bill Maher has been on the WarnerMedia-owned network since 2003. Maher has just returned to the studio, having spent much of last six months making the show from his backyard. The…