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President Donald Trump’s executive apparently was interrupted by Real Time today, and POTUS clapped back at its “wacko” host’s “many false statements.” Bill Maher pulled no punches on myriad topics during his live HBO show Friday night — gun violence, a possible looming recession, the national mood and so on — but the…

Like two guys sitting around a campfire trying to frighten their scout troop, Bob Woodward and Bill Maher sat together on stage and scared the bejeezus out of Real Time viewers. Woodward ostensibly came to Maher's HBO late-night show to promote his book, Fear: Trump In the White House – the title of which, he said…

UPDATED with video: “Real sadness as well as anger, I must say, motivated me,” Barbra Streisand told Bill Maher about the act of making her new album, Walls. “I couldn't sleep nights. The photographs in my head – the pictures of the children being ripped out of the arms of their parents,” she explained on HBO’s Real Ti…

UPDATE, with video "I am Q" Bill Maher revealed during his New Rules segment in which he lampooned Trump supporters latest conspiracy theory, QAnon. Maher’s final New Rule for the night: “If Trump supporters don't want us to call them stupid they have to stop coming up with things like Q.” “Just a few months ago…I was…

Academic Michael Eric Dyson is Bill Maher’s top-of-show interview guest for Friday’s Real Time, after Sen. Al Franken bowed out, citing Maher’s use of a racial slur on last Friday’s program. Musician/actor Ice Cube is Maher’s mid-show interview guest; roundtable guests include CNN journalist David Gregory, former Fla…

Bill Maher, who this week took a victory lap after the unraveling of conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, is is under fire for a 1998 episode of his former ABC late-night show, in which he defends a thirtysomething teacher in jail for having had sex with a 12-year-old student with whom she got pregnant. “As I…

In advance of an expected news conference by Breitbart’s under-the-gun senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, the web site’s editor-in-chief took to its radio show this morning to blast his staffer’s remarks in old videos that re-surfaced this week. The radio remarks further fueled speculation Yiannopoulos will be removed…

HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher clocked its biggest premiere crowd ever in its 15th season kickoff, which coincided with Donald Trump’s inauguration. Friday night’s kickoff, hours after Trump was sworn in, snagged 1.9 million viewers at 10 PM which is 71% higher than last January’s premiere. Across the night, Maher’s…

UPDATED WITH WIKILEAKS TWEET BELOW Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, attempted a gotcha moment on the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last night, suggesting that Maher was a secret million-dollar-supporter of Hillary Clinton – a suggestion Maher dismissed with an obscenity. The exchange came after…

Bill Maher and guests Salman Rushdie, Michael Moynihan and Amy Holmes discussed the 2016 Democratic National Convention during Thursday’s special edition of Real Time. The episode was preceded by a repeat due to Hillary Clinton’s speech running long and began about 27 minutes later than scheduled. Maher noted that…

HBO’s topical late-night show Real Time with Bill Maher will air four live, half-hour editions during the GOP and Dem conventions.  The specials will be presented from Los Angeles, where the show is based. The GOP convention specials will premiere at 11 PM on Wednesday and Thursday, July 20 and 21; the Dem confab will…

Bill Maher and panelists Alex Wagner, Will Cain and former Gov. Lincoln Chafee debated the PEN-Charlie Hebdo controversy, and the shooting in Garland, Texas. That “draw Muhammad” cartoon contest in Texas, where the shooting occurred, was sponsored by “‘kind of a loon,’ Maher said, noting it was “obviously was a…