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You know it’s a good week on Real Time when the two stories that have consumed the week’s news — the accusations against Andrew Cuomo and the accusations against the Royal Family — take a backseat to weightier topics such as crony capitalism and the hegemony of China. “We're not losing to China,” said Maher on HBO…

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…

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…

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…

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…

After sparking a fight with Donald Trump last week, Bill Maher used his New Rules this week to take on someone even more powerful: Jesus. Riffing off of Ryan Reynolds’ recent apology for getting married at a former slave plantation, the Real Time pointed out that the hero of the New Testament wasn’t always on the…

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…