Bill Maher

Maher: DC Crime Crackdown Is About Erasing Democrat Electoral Wins
One week after mocking DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for getting assaulted during an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., HBO’s Bill Maher claimed to discover the real reason for President Trump’s use of the National Guard in the city: to prevent Democrats from taking office should they win the next election. This time, however, Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo was…

Bill Maher Blasts Dems He Voted For Who Are 'Afraid' to Do His Show
On Friday night's Real Time, HBO host Bill Maher called out Democrats like former Vice President Kamala Harris and Bill and Hillary Clinton for refusing to appear on his show despite the fact that he voted for them. Meanwhile, many Republicans have shown up and "they take their beating like a man."

Maher Finds DOGE Staffer 'Big Balls' Getting Assaulted Hilarious
HBO’s Bill Maher can seem like the most reasonable of the bunch of the liberal late night comedians because he is willing to ridicule the excesses of the left, but in mocking DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine on Friday’s Real Time for being assaulted, he crossed a line that even the others have dared not cross.

Bill Maher: The View Is Not ‘the Best Advertisement for Women’
The hits kept coming for ABC News’ The View during their 2025 summer hiatus. In the Monday release of his Club Random podcast, comedian Bill Maher was sitting down with actress Drew Barrymore discussing life, the industry pressure, and online cancel culture when Maher brought up how problematic The View was for women and for discussing politics. The criticism came at…

'Not a Nothing Burger': Maher Tries To Cling to Mueller Report
HBO’s Bill Maher returned to Real Time after more than a month off on Friday and, against the backdrop of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claiming that assessments that Vladimir Putin preferred Donald Trump to win in 2016 were false and politicized, tried desperately to cling to the Mueller Probe, insisting there was something there.

Joke’s On Me? HBO Comedian Bill Maher Admits Defeat on Trump Tariffs
Talk about being the butt of the joke. HBO comedian Bill Maher actually conceded that his typical smart aleck prediction that President Donald Trump's tariffs would wreck the economy by this point was way off the mark.

John Leguizamo Stuns Bill Maher with Unhinged Claim
Bill Maher admits he didn’t do his homework in one area before interviewing John Leguizamo.

Ruhle Laments Policy Changes After Boulder Firebombing Attack
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to discuss the Trump Administration, Harvard, and the recent firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. While Maher and The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg tried to take a nuanced approach to the issue, as well as with Trump’s fight with Harvard, Ruhle was more rigid as she insisted we should not “…

Tapper Avoids Blame As Maher Asks 'Who Do We Blame' For Biden Coverup
CNN host and Original Sin co-author Jake Tapper took his book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday for a surreal discussion with Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton about former President Joe Biden’s mental decline and who was to blame for the coverup.

FLASHBACK: How an Adoring Media Aided Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign
While a similarly extreme far-right candidate would have faced withering criticism from the press, the establishment media celebrated Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders for his “passion” and the “seriousness” of his radical ideas.

'Like When The Pandas Are F******': Maher Uses Pope To Trash Religion
Every once in a while, HBO’s Bill Maher feels the need to remind people that he is still an intensely anti-religious individual. Friday’s episode of Real Time was one of those occasions, as Maher used the election of a new pope to launch into multiple anti-religious ramblings in order to portray religious people as unintelligent and violent, but it was Maher who relied on…

Douglas Murray Calmly Dismantles Maher's Transgender 'Sensible Center'
New York Post columnist Douglas Murray joined HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to promote his new book about Israel, but later, during the Overtime segment, Maher couldn’t help but also ask about his native Britain’s supreme court ruling that the definition of a woman is based off of biology and not self-identification. From there, Murray would go on to calmly dismantle Maher…

Maher Battles WashPost's Rogin On His Meeting With Trump
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher recapped his recent meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday’s show where he emphasized the importance of talking to people even if you disagree with them. He also claimed that Trump, in private, is quite personable as contrasted with the more combative public persona that people either love or hate. However, Washington Post foreign policy…

Bill Maher Favors Defunding PBS and NPR: 'They Have To Be Private'
On the "Overtime" segment of his HBO show, Bill Maher was asked about the House DOGE hearing on PBS and NPR bias. He said "My namesake, Katherine Maher, was head of NPR, and she said 'we're completely unbiased.' Give me a break, lady! I mean, they're crazy far-left." He favors defunding PBS and NPR.