Real Time with Bill Maher

Season 11

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Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher discusses topical events with guests from various backgrounds.

Where to Watch Season 11

35 Episodes

January 18, 2013
E1
January 18, 2013Guests: Comedian Martin Short, former Governor & Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE), journalist Rula Jebreal, reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, and former Rep. Steve LaTourette. Topics: The future of the Republicans, gun control, Israeli elections, revolution in Syria, torture, Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, the media, neither party cares about privacy
January 25, 2013
E2
January 25, 2013GOPAC president David Avella; former Vt. Gov. Howard Dean; political strategist Kristen Soltis; House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi; Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont).
February 1, 2013
E3
February 1, 2013Interview Guests: Alex Gibney, Sam Harris Panelists: Cory Booker, Jackie Kucinich, Eva Longoria Alex Gibney is an American documentary filmmaker. His latest documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" apparently debuts Feb 4, 2013 on HBO. Sam Harris is a philosopher whose latest book is "Free Will". He blogs at samharris.org and has recently written on the gun control issue. Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey and is a high-profile Democrat. Jackie Kucinich is a reporter covering politics for USA Today and is a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC. Eva Longoria is an American television and film actress, best known for her roles on "The Young and the Restless" and "Desperate Housewives".
February 8, 2013
E4
February 8, 2013Interviewee: Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder) Panelists: Lawrence Krauss (theoretical physicist), Martin Bashir and Josh Barro (journalist) Panel Guest: Tina Brown (editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast)
February 15, 2013
E5
February 15, 2013Interviewee: Robert Zimmerman (brother of George Zimmerman) Panelists: Jamie Weinstein (editor), Donna Brazile and Jon Meacham (author) Panel Guest: Joel McHale (actor on "Community") Topics: Is democracy working?
March 1, 2013
E6
March 1, 2013Cybersecurity expert James Lyne; musician Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg); finance expert Monica Mehta; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA); political strategist Steve Schmidt.
March 8, 2013
E7
March 8, 2013Journalist Charlies LeDuff; author Arianna Huffington; health care expert Avik Roy; former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele; actor/comic David Cross.
March 15, 2013
E8
March 15, 2013Education reformer Michelle Rhee, chef Tom Colicchio, economist Jared Bernstein, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), and TV host Rachel Maddow.
March 22, 2013
E9
March 22, 2013Economist Austan Goolsbee; music-business executive Clive Davis; journalist John Feehery; voter registration advocate Maria Teresa Kumar; former Gov. Jim McGreevey (D-NJ).
April 5, 2013
E10
April 5, 2013Interview Guest: Sebastian Junger Panelists: Abby Huntsman, Stephen Moore, Bernie Sanders Panel Guest: Zack Kopplin Sebastian Junger is an award-winning Afghanistan war correspondent and filmmaker. His latest project is a film for HBO titled "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington". Abby Huntsman is a political commentator and host of HuffPost Live. Stephen Moore is an economist, conservative commentator and the author of "Who’s The Fairest of Them All: The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America". Bernie Sanders is the independent senator from Vermont. Zack Kopplin is a science education activist.
April 12, 2013
E11
April 12, 2013Gun control advocate Colin Goddard; sportscaster Bob Costas; political strategist Stephanie Cutter; economist David Stockman; activist Saru Jayaraman.
April 19, 2013
E12
April 19, 2013Interviewee: Brian Levin (director of Center for Study of Hate and Extremism) Panelists: Salman Rushdie ("Midnight's Children" author), Amy Holmes and Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) Panel Guest: Colin Goddard (gun safety advocate)
April 26, 2013
E13
April 26, 2013Guests: Donald Borelli, Jimmy Kimmel, John Avlon, Anna Deavere Smith, Robert Traynham.
May 3, 2013
E14
May 3, 2013Guests: Jeremy Scahill, Lawrence O'Donnell, Pete Hegseth, Mattie Duppler, Marc Maron.
May 10, 2013
E15
May 10, 2013Guests: From "Star Trek: Into Darkness", actor Zachary Quinto; NYT Food & Opinion journalist Mark Bittman; Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald; MSNBC analyst Joy Reid; National Review journalist Charles Cooke.
May 17, 2013
E16
May 17, 2013Guests: Oscar winning director Michael Moore; from "The Hangover Part III", actor/comedian Zach Galifianakis; from "The Cycle", co-host S.E. Cupp; from "Foreign Policy Begins at Home", author Richard Haas; NYT Finance columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
May 31, 2013
E17
May 31, 2013Interviewee: Michael Isikoff (investigative journalist for NBC News) Panelists: James Poulos (producer of "HuffPost Live" and writer for "Vice"), Neera Tanden and Paul Rudnick (screenwriter and humorist)
June 7, 2013
E18
June 7, 2013Guests: Filmmaker & author Tom Shadyac; journalist & author George Packer; GOP strategist Ana Navarro; comedian Dana Gould; author Kevin Williamson.
June 14, 2013
E19
June 14, 2013Guests: Ex U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI); "The Center Holds" author Jonathan Alter; "Gasland Part II" director Josh Fox; "Great Degeneration" author and Harvard professor Niall Ferguson; conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway.
June 21, 2013
E20
June 21, 2013Guests: Ex New York Times Op-Eder & Demos Fellow Bob Herbert; first female Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour; "Cooked" author Michael Pollan; "Queen of the Turtle Derby" author Julia Reed; Bloomberg Businessweek journalist Josh Green.
June 28, 2013
E21
June 28, 2013The Interview: Anthony Leiserowitz is the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which "investigates the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception and behavior." Twitter: @ecotone2 The Panel: Kristen Soltis has been described as "the Republican Party's leading millennial pollster" and serves as the Vice President of DC-based opinion research and political communications firm The Winston Group. Twitter: @KSoltisAnderson Dan Neil is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Wall Street Journal's "Rumble Seat" column, where he reviews everything from the Aston Martin Rapide S to John Deer's latest Gator. Twitter: @Danneilwsj Horace Cooper is a writer and legal commentator who serves at the Co-Chairman of the National Advisory Board for Project 21: "an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment." He is also a partner at Monument Communications. Adrian Grenier will join the panel mid-show. He is an actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur who recently produced 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs,' a film exploring the failure of American's drug war. It opens in New York on June 26th and Los Angeles on June 28th and is currently available on demand. Adrian recently penned an editorial for The Huffington Post, calling for the "return a sense of rationality and proportion to a justice system that has spun wildly out of control."
July 12, 2013
E22
July 12, 2013Guests: "Hope on a Tightrope" author Dr. Cornel West; "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe; GOP strategist Liz Mair; Daily Caller blogger Matt Lewis.
July 19, 2013
E23
July 19, 2013Guests: tba
July 26, 2013
E24
July 26, 2013Interviewee: Sarah Slamen (Texas activist); Panelists: Reza Aslan ("Zealot" author), Robert Ney (ex US Representative R-OH), Eliot Spitzer (ex Governor D-NY); Panel guest: Jim Wallis (Sojourners magazine).
August 2, 2013
E25
August 2, 2013Guests: tba
September 13, 2013
E26
September 13, 2013Interviewee: Dr Edwin Lyman (UCS senior scientist) Panelists: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone journalist), Michael Steele (ex GOP Chairman), Zanny Minton-Beddoes (Economist editor) Panel Guest: Bill Nye ("Bill Nye Science Guy")
September 20, 2013
E27
September 20, 2013Bill's guests are Joy Behar, Billy Crystal, David Frum, Chris Hayes, and Jeremy Seifert.
September 27, 2013
E28
September 27, 2013Guests: Carl Hart, Monica Mehta, Jeff Rechner, Robert Reich, Tim Robbins, and Matt Welch.
October 4, 2013
E29
October 4, 2013Interviewee: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (professor at the University of PA) Panelists: Alan Grayson (U.S. Rep. D-FL), Suzy Khimm (MSNBC news reporter), Matt Kibbe (FreedomWorks president & CEO) Panel Guest: Carl Reiner (TV icon & author of "I Remember Me") Topics: Government shutdown over Obamacare, Carl Reiner's history in showbiz, businesses vs. the GOP, dress for success
October 11, 2013
E30
October 11, 2013Interviewee: Maya Wiley (Center for Social Inclusion president) Panelists: Jim Glassman (ex George W. Bush Institute director), Carol Roth (author of "The Entrepreneurial Equation"), Chris Matthews (MSNBC host & author of "Tip and the Gipper") Panel Guest: Oliver Stone (Oscar-winning filmmaker) Topics: Republicans' strategy backfiring, solving America's debt, America's role in the world, Republicans' debt denial, politicians with extreme religious beliefs
October 25, 2013
E31
October 25, 2013Interviewee: Maajid Nawaz (ex Islamic radical) Panelists: Rev. Al Sharpton (MSNBC host & author of "Rejected Stone"), Michael Moore (filmmaker), Valerie Plame (co-author of "Blowback") Panel Guest: Richard Dawkins (author of "Appetite for Wonder") Topics: Obamacare's dysfunctional website, perceived strengths of each party, NSA spying on other countries, new evolution finding, Pope Francis, is Islam more dangerous than Christianity?, the minimum wage.
November 1, 2013
E32
November 1, 2013Interviewee: Ann Coulter (author) Panelists: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Rep. D-FL), Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist), Rob Reiner (filmmaker) Panel Guest: Rob Lowe (actor, "Killing Kennedy") Topics: Obama's lie about current health care plans, Ted Cruz, Sr., women in politics, Rob Lowe as JFK, US embargo against Cuba, Kessler Syndrome, NSA spying, Republicans should appeal to stoners.
November 8, 2013
E33
November 8, 2013Interviewee: Billy Binney (NSA whistleblower) Panelists: John Heilemann ("Double Down" co-author), Dr Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (University of Texas fellow), David Avella (GOPAC President) Panel Guest: Anthony Weiner.
November 15, 2013
E34
November 15, 2013Guests: Casey Affleck (actor), Ezra Klein (Washington Post journalist), Reihan Salam (National Review Online blogger), Mattie Duppler (Americans for Tax Reform), Radley Balko (Washington Post journalist).
November 22, 2013
E35
November 22, 2013Interviewee: Dan Savage ("Savage Love" columnist) Panelists: Paul Begala (CNN analyst), Katty Kay (BBC America anchor), Bob Ehrlich (Ex-Gov. R-MD) Panel Guest: Wendell Pierce ("Treme", actor) Topics: The 'Nuclear Option', conspiracy theories, ending the War in Afghanistan, contributions of New Orleans culture, bringing food to the inner city, businesses open on Thanksgiving, Trey Radel and drugs, Red states not accepting federal money for Medicaid, JFK vs. Ronald Reagan.