Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, March 21, 2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 23rd season Friday, March 21 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:04 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Dana Carvey, comedian, actor, producer, and co-host of the podcast Fly on the Wall with David Spade.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Ezra Klein, host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast and co-author of the new book, Abundance; and Andrew Sullivan, writer of The Weekly Dish newsletter on Substack and host of the podcast The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan.

[question everything]

1. Good panel. Thanks for posting

[flamingdem]

2. Dana!

Def watching tonight

[UTUSN]

3. K&R for, Dana CARVEY? - is MAHER merging Club Random with this?

Well, after the election, MAHER did say he didn't want to spend four more years on KRASNOV. Plus, doesn't want to "hate half the country." Oh, and (paraphrasing, despite the quotation marks: ) "talking to monsters results in finding out they're not monsters." Anything else?

[UTUSN]

22. By the bye, our million $ donor Classical Liberal Bill is going to meet KRASNOV

at the WH courtesy of kid rock

[Abolishinist]

4. Well, isn't that special.

Can't wait to see Dana Carvey, Ezra Klein is good, Andrew Sullivan not too bad. Add the opening and New Rules and it sounds like another fun Friday evening with Bill Maher!

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. Ezra Klein spent most of 24 attacking President Biden

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/ezra-klein-biden-audio-essay.html

[maxsolomon]

8. Don't watch.

It's easy.

[SocialDemocrat61]

9. I won't be

and haven’t for a long time. I don’t watch FAUX News either.

[senseandsensibility]

10. I for one appreciate

the info about Ezra Klein. I won't be watching for that and other reasons, so no need to advise me.

[maxsolomon]

12. I wasn't addressing you

but I'll make a note to exempt you in the future.

[Abolishinist]

18. Thank you. An interesting article by Mr. Klein.

Biden has held together a Democratic Party that could easily have splintered. Think back to the 2020 campaign, when he beat Bernie Sanders, when he beat Elizabeth Warren, when his victory was seen as, was in reality, the moderate wing triumphing over the progressive wing, the establishment over the insurgents.

But instead of making them bend the knee, instead of acting as a victor, Biden acted as a leader. He partnered with Bernie Sanders. He built the unity task forces. He integrated Warren’s and Sanders’s ideas and staff into not just his campaign but also his administration.

I had a conversation recently with Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the House progressive caucus, and I asked her why the Democratic Party hadn’t ruptured the way Republicans did. She pointed me back to that moment. Biden, she said, made this “huge attempt to pull the Democratic Party back together before the 2020 election in a way I’ve really never seen before.” And it worked. Democrats had 50 votes in the Senate. Fifty votes that stretched from Bernie Sanders on the left all the way to Joe Manchin on the right. Biden and Chuck Schumer, they often could not lose even one of those votes, and at crucial moments, they didn’t.

With that almost-impossible-to-hold-together coalition, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats passed a series of bills — the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act — that will make this a decade of infrastructure and invention. A decade of building, of decarbonizing, of researching. They expanded the Affordable Care Act, and it worked — more than 21 million people signed up for the A.C.A. last year, a record. They did what Democrats have promised to do forever and took at least the first steps toward letting Medicare negotiate drug prices.

[SocialDemocrat61]

21. Not the whole article

And here's another relevant article https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-ezra-klein-helped-set-the-stage-for-kamala-harriss-nomination

Here's one about Neville Maher
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-reveals-plans-to-meet-with-trump-at-white-house/

[BannonsLiver]

5. I can't put into words how much I hate Andrew Sullivan.

He was a Bush fluffer in the early 2000s and virulently anti-Obama afterward. Dana's great though.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Fuck Bill Maher

[Yavin4]

11. I second the motion. Fuck Bill Maher. n/t

[Paladin]

14. Ya beat me to it!

Absolutely: Fuck Bill Maher, first last and always, now and forever more.

[Abolishinist]

19. He's on the board of PETA,

an organization we contribute to annually and is in our estate plan. Yah wanna f**k him for that as well?

Absolutely: Fuck Bill Maher, first last and always, now and forever more.

The “Real Time” host has been an outspoken animal rights advocate and defender of PETA for years.

In a video PSA for the group, he admonished “hipster douches” for wearing Canada Goose.

“New rule: No more douches,” he said in the clip. “I mean the hipster douches who piss away $1,000 on a Canada Goose parka and the hipsterazzi who max out their credit cards to look like them.”

Maher continued: “See, what they don’t realize — or may not care about — is that Canada Goose trims its coats with the fur of coyotes who’ve been crushed and mangled in steel traps so painful and indiscriminate that they’ve been outlawed in over 85 countries.”

&

[Paladin]

20. See if you can get Maher to treat Democrats as nicely as he treats coyotes.

Don't worry, my expectations aren't very high.

And I actually think rather highly of PETA, by the way---Maher's connections to it notwithstanding.

[question everything]

17. Make sure you use protection

[Beaverhausen]

27. His fawning interview with Elon Musk was the last straw for me

He basically spent 20 minutes sucking musk’s dick.

[Emile]

13. Can't stand his centrist bs.

[617Blue]

15. Self loathing gay man Andrew Sullivan.

Yes the Republicans will eventually have me murdered but at least they're not Libs!!

[question everything]

16. Kick

[Yorkie Mom]

23. Excellent show tonight.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Thanks! I thought so, too!

And Dana Carvey was funny! Something we've missed this week since the late night guys, except for Jimmy Kimmel, were in repeats!

BTW, I just posted the show, as usual:

Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 3/21/2025
https://democraticunderground.com/132266011

[SocialDemocrat61]

25. Only Colbert was in repeats

Fallon, Meyers and the Daily Show were all new.

[True Dough]

26. Going to give it a watch today

I see these threads still attract as many detractors as they do fans of Maher. I guess they don't get tired of expressing their disdain for him.

Regardless, thanks for posting, Rhiannon!