Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, October 17, 2025

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 23rd season Friday, October 17th (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 11:58 p.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and former governor of California.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Andrew Ross Sorkin, host of CNBC’s Squawk Box and author of 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How it Shattered a Nation; and Mark Cuban, minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.

[Prairie Gates]

1. Fuck Bill Maher

[Buckeyeblue]

4. Mark Cuban has interesting ideas

But Bill Maher is pretty much unwatchable these days.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. I like MC a lot n/t

[UTUSN]

5. K&R even when I dislike the guests.

[musette_sf]

6. I suppose Bill and Arnie will rant about Prop 50

and I am sick of Smarmy Arnie’s anti-Prop 50 TV ads.

[travelingthrulife]

10. Yes, I imagine this is Maher's purpose, to trash Prop 50.

[themaguffin]

17. looks like...

..he said this:

But things have changed. Would you not say, if the Republicans are doing it, how can the, the Democrats unilaterally disarm? He's just, he's wants Indiana now to be a state that's gonna have zero Democrat representatives if Texas is doing it Now, California's prop 50. Gavin Newsom wants us to undo what you did, made it fair and go back to this because we can't unilaterally disarm. What is your argument now, given the new information?

[617Blue]

7. Can you post the topics Alex Jones will be addressing today?

WTF with promoting this gaslighting asshole?

[BannonsLiver]

9. It's just good old fashioned obstinance.

I don’t believe the OP or anyone else with positive comments on this forum are still fans of Bill. It’s become shtick at this point because they don’t want to give those who have criticized Bill (and their continued viewership) the satisfaction of knowing they stopped being Bill fans or are no longer watching his show.

[Sympthsical]

13. Meh, disagree

I know plenty of Democratic voters in good standing who watch and discuss episodes. Sometimes I watch, sometimes not. Sometimes it's interesting, sometimes not. A lot of people like New Rules. I find Maher a little personally insufferable - his podcast is a completely unbearable listen - but I'm glad someone's out there making some of the criticisms he does - and it's always fun to watch the bubble crash out.

It's only in the bubbles I see this obsession, where resident media monitors feel an endless need to scold and shame for disapproved choices.

Reminds me of evangelicals I grew up with in the 80s or 90s trying to browbeat people into consuming only the media they wanted you to.

Ignored those types then. Ignore those types now. The best a bully can manage - and a long-term, much-liked DUer is being bullied with some mean girl tactics at this point - is that people just get quieter in hostile company about the fact that they're watching.

And let's not lie to ourselves. Plenty of his haters are absolutely watching. Howard Stern effect. Same reason so many people on our side seem to watch Fox News all day.

It doesn't matter. I've seen everyone else's media choices. Makes my trash tv choices look like the Criterion Collection. I think I can suffer the evangelizing foot stomping somehow.

[Abolishinist]

18. Couldn't agree more. We need more space for independent thought and less purity policing.

There are some whose idea of freedom is that you can think for yourself, as long as you arrive at the approved conclusions.

Moving on, not being aware of the Criterion Collection I looked it up. An interesting site, I'm considering giving it a try. Thanks for the mention.

We attended several films at our local San Diego Int'l Film Festival over the weekend, all were excellent. We saw Hamnet (for which Jessie Buckley deserves an Oscar), Rental Family, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

Glad to see you haven't totally abandoned DU!

[BannonsLiver]

19. Yes, we all have different standards when it comes to media consumption.

[themaguffin]

8. What does Alex Jones have to do with this? What a weird reply.

[beaglelover]

11. Good line up. Will be watching!

[Abolishinist]

14. We'll be watching!

I've always liked Mark Cuban, he seems to be a really decent human being.

And of course, his Opening and New Rules are always fun.

Thanks for posting!

[themaguffin]

16. It's great that he supported Harris. It would be interesting to see him provide strategic long term support

to Democrats. Maybe he is, but I haven't heard Cuban speak to that.