Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, August 15, 2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 23rd season Friday, August 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:11 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Walter Kirn, best-selling author and editor-at-large of County Highway; and Molly Jong-Fast, host of the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast and author of How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Fuck Bill Maher

[Moostache]

2. I forgot all about him...

So he still has a show that airs? Hmmm... nope, zero fucks to give to him. Tacit Trumpers can all pound sand alone.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Thanks! Having not had HBO for quite some time I hadn't watched it in years. Now that I have HBO again I've been

watching it. Does that make me a bad person?

[UTUSN]

4. Never bad. - I (sometimes) watch (parts of) it via YouTube the morning after.

More often the Random pod when it crosses my path and the guest fits.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. I catch it on replay! Can't stay up that late to watch live! 😅

[maxsolomon]

8. It does. You're the worst possible person on DU.

Irredeemable.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Ouch! That'll leave a mark!

[IcyPeas]

9. Join the club.

I watch and read what I want to watch and read.

None of which means I agree or disagree with what I watch or read.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Blasphemy!

[IcyPeas]

12. Lol.... wanna know what else I watch?

Shhhhh don't tell anyone.....
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Never mind. I can't say it.... I'm too ashamed

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Whisper it! 🤫

[Paladin]

5. I actually appreciate the weekly DU announcements re Maher's show.

I stopped watching the stupid motherfucker years ago, but it's always worthwhile, knowing that nothing's changed for the better.

[question everything]

7. The only one that I recognize is Molly Jong-Fast, the daughter of Erica Jong of the 70s "Fear of Flying"

Should be interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Same here - and she's always informed.

I meant to look up the other two, look like authors to me - and The Atlantic is a pretty progressive publication.

[question everything]

14. Kick

[BlueTsunami2018]

16. I admit I was a big fan and defender of Maher even when most turned against him here.

But he’s become insufferable and unwatchable.

I can’t stand his bootlicking of the ruling class.