Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, January 26, 2024

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 22nd season Friday, January 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:05 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Stephen A. Smith, host of ESPN's First Take and The Stephen A. Smith Show podcast, both available on YouTube. His book Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes is now available in paperback.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Rep. Adam Schiff, Democratic Congressman representing California's 30th district who is currently a 2024 candidate for the U.S. Senate; and Seth MacFarlane, actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer whose newest show Ted recently premiered January 11th on Peacock.


Watch Bill and his guests continue their conversation on Overtime, airing Fridays at 11:30pm on CNN’s Laura Coates Live and Saturdays on the Real Time YouTube channel.

[Auggie]

1. Wow -- that's some panel!

Thanks for sharing!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. You're more than welcome, and I agree, politics and humor!

[UTUSN]

3. Seth doesn't take MAHER's crap - took him down over the vax

[Abolishinist]

4. Sounds like a good show!

I'm not at all familiar with Smith. So I looked up his book on Amazon and wow, it has a 4.6 rating with almost 1,800 reviews, 90% of which are either a 4 or 5 out of 5. It seems he has led a most admirable life!

I'll be watching!

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Thanks for the review results! He's the one I wasn't familiar with as well. But the panel guests couldn't be better...

[question everything]

6. Interesing. I don't know the first thing about ESPN but the others will be fun. And... Maher should really

enjoy today's trial results.

Thanks for posting

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Same here, but it was posted earlier that he gets high marks. And I'm clearly a fan of the panel guests

And they will definitely have a lot to talk about today!

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I watched Overtime (which I just added to the Bill Maher videos) and Bill said they got the news just before the show

They did discuss it, but then went on to other viewer questions, but then Adam Schiff dropped a four letter word(!), then Seth did - twice - and when Bill finally mentioned it, he repeated what he'd just said. So Bill reminded them that they were now on CNN where swearing isn't allowed and they could lose their spot there - and he soon shut down what was a pretty animated political discussion.

Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 1/26/24
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132210532

[question everything]

16. We were in a car at 3:30 Central time when the news broke in Nicole show.

Meaning it was 1:30 Pacific Time.

This is more than five hours before the show start “Live.”

Spouse claims that it used to say LIVE on the screen but no longer.

Yet, I remember many years ago when we were on a verge of a government shutdown because of another abortion debate.

And at some point Maher had his ear piece and said: We’re OK. They reached an agreement.

[question everything]

8. I wonder whether the program is pre-recorded. This is the second time - I don't remember the

previous one - that I expected him to comment on fresh events and.. nothing,

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Good point, the news of the day was the E. Jean Carroll record settlement, that led all of the news shows

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Same thing when RBG passed.

It was almost at the end of the show when the producers informed him and she passed around 6PM CST.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. And they are in Pacific Time, but they'd get breaking news at the same time, so it would be just earlier in their day

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. So he ignored the E. Jean Carroll verdict

and is obsessed with trashing the Barbie movie.

The real question is when will Maher move the show to FAUX.

[ificandream]

17. Back when I liked Bill Maher, we went to see a rehearsal of a show while we were in L.A.

As I recall, it took place about 5 p.m. PT, so he should have known about the verdict.

[DET]

9. You Forgot Something...

I’m watching now. I’d never heard of Steven A. Smith before. He has a very distinctive face. I realized that he looks just like a recurring actor on General Hospital. Turns out it’s him (he plays ‘Brick’ on the show)!

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Really?? I did not know that and I watched GH for decades!

The last time I tuned in I was kinda disappointed to see that they'd persisted with the mafia-like stories. When I watched they focused on stories from General Hospital and the international spies. Thanks for the information, I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned!

[ificandream]

18. Fun fact about Bill Maher.

I was in L.A. when, I think, he was still hosting Politically Incorrect. I was at a Beatles convention with some friends in the dealer room where all the rare stuff was and was looking through some records and in walks Bill to where we were. We exchanged pleasantries.

I was a fervent watcher until he started going against vaccines and other things.