I usually like this show, with the occasional bad guest lineup. I have to say, last nights episode was not good all around. The Libertarian Presidential candidate was kinda interesting. Gaffigan killed the transition. The 3 guests were downright bad all around.

Gary Johnson always looks and sounds stoned.

Maher's monologue and new rules segments are good. He apes Johnny Carson's physical presentation of the monologue; which he freely admits.

Panel segments--Maher talks over anyone with whom he disagrees too much these days. He used to be more encouraing of different points of view. Maher has zero patience for anyone who doesn't conform to his particular brand of hollywood liberaltarian; or who isn't hot and bothered that other people have imaginary best friends. About the only non-libtard he has on regularly these days is the guy from Reason magazine.

The bald gay guy?

Nick Gillespie:

https://reason.com/people/nick-gillespie/articles

Ah, he is not bad.

Nick Gillespie's jacket is probably fuming at all the attention DeRay's vest has been getting these last few years.

This election season has been brutal for Maher. If I didn't know better, I'd think Donald Trump lived under his bed.

I liked this British parliamentarian with the big tits. Have her on more.

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Pic or a name?

Louise Mensch
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... tures.html

Bill needs to retool that fourth panelist spot. It's such a clumsy break in the show and ruins the flow of any discussion going on with the other guests. It's weird how he is looking to his left and engaging in a one on one while three people sit to his right in silence. And when the fourth guest is good, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I always feel like they are underused. You also get bad ones that wear out their welcome in thirty seconds like that little bitch who wore his bathroom solidarity shirt on the show a few weeks back. They linger over the last third of the show like a stale fart.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Agreed. It's either one of his celebrity friends promoting something, or somebody I don't know, and don't care about what they are saying.

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The best use of Tyson was the Climate Change talk with that guy who was the head of GM, and did not believe in it.


But, yes that person plugging their stuff needs to go. I could care less about a fucking comedy act, album you are dropping ect. Come to the show and have something good to say. The WORST was when Willie Nelson came on the show, and looked puzzled as to what was going on.

It's still an entertaining show overall. Would prefer more time with the panel, and fewer one-on-one interviews with random activists. Interested to see the convention segments. Keep it basic. Get on interesting guests and let them argue.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

i think he's good at having a discussion, he's very poor at being funny. that being said, i just find the show not really interesting anymore.

His hack-ass comedy bits grind the show to a halt. "What would be on the menu if Bill CAWWWZBY opened a restaurant so he could drug people's food and rape them? I think it'd go a little something...like this."

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I always enjoy this show. I wish there were more like it. I know you have Oliver and the Daily Show but that's just a smidge too serious. Real Time's tone and pace is perfect.

I love his show, I never miss it. He just needs to clean it up a smidge. When he brings that guest out to promote something towards the end, most of the time it kills the flow.

Yeah Bill really isn't that funny. Norm Macdonald said something amusing about that fact once. Bill's best bit (New Rules) is basically a rip off of Dennis Miller's old show.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

The whole show is a ripoff of Dennis Miller Live: quick-hits monologue, extended monologue (Rant/last New Rule), interview an idiosyncratic guest, second monologue (Big Screen/New Rules), say "fuck" a lot along the way. The panel segment was ported over from Politically Incorrect, of course.

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Didn't Maher used to have live callers in the beginning as well? God, now you got me overanalyzing it. Even the show openings are similar with the images on Miller's toppling dominoes and Maher's spliced video clips.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

If I have my timeline right, HBO cancelled Dennis Miller Live in '02 to make room for Real Time, and one of Dennis's last guests was Bill Maher. You may as well think of the two as one continuous franchise, the HBO Friday Night News-Talk And Fuck-Saying Revue.

There are a couple early seasons of Dennis Miller Live up on HBO Go, but with the Tears For Fears overdubbed out, it's almost not worth it.

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my all time favorite real time with bill maher moment was a "new rules" segment from the early-mid 00s (~nov 2003 i think) where in the midst of some legal/constitutional california was getting a lot of shit about [something] and bill maher decided to dedicate the final rant of a "new rules" segment to sticking up for california. i've never been able to find a youtube-clip/video of it, but i've found a transcript of what he said (only cuz i distinctly remember the line "what grows on the trees in scranton, fucker?!" =) so i present it to all y'all..... enjoy!

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And finally, New Rule: Lay off California! You know, the rest of America has been having quite a laugh at California’s expense lately. But let’s remember this: California has a lot of people.

And the reason it does is lots of other people in other states saying, “Fuck this, I’m outta here!”

And then those people come here to California, and people ask them, “Don’t you miss the winters?” --- No, strangely enough, I don’t. Much the same way I don’t miss slamming a car door on my hands.

Make fun of California, but if it weren’t for California, East Coast rappers would have to shoot musicians from Branson.

If it weren’t for California, there’s be almost no TV, and you’d have to come home at night and actually talk to your family.

You know, the rest of America feels about California the way the rest of the world feels about America. They hate us because we do what we want. They think we’re too blessed and too free, and it makes them nuts in the dreary hovels of Kabul and Tikrit and Lubbock, Texas. They pray to their threadbare gods that we’ll get what we deserve. But it won’t happen because you never know what we’re going to do here next.

We elected Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown.

We’re home to Disney and Hustler, the Partridge Family and the Manson Family.

We can drink a Mudslide and a Sex on the Beach during an actual mudslide while having sex on the beach!

Our farms feed the world, and Calista Flockhart lives here.

We have bears and great white sharks. And even our washed-up actors are allowed to kill one blonde chick.

We invented surfing and cyber-porn and LSD and the boob job. And if we didn’t, we would have.

We have oranges, free oranges, everywhere. What grows on the trees in Scranton, fucker?!

We have a real hockey team named after a hockey team in a movie!

Our Indian casinos could kick your Indian casinos’ ass.

We give our illegal aliens driver’s licenses.

And we have a guy running for governor who digs group sex.

Would anywhere else in America trade places with L.A. or San Francisco in a piss-soaked New York minute? You bet they would. Because I don’t recall anyone ever writing a song called “I Wish They All Could Be Rhode Island Girls”!

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This week's episode with Viggo Mortensen as the 4th guest on the panel was awful. For being a great actor, he could barely speak. Completely derailed the panel discussion.

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I think he is reserved, which is fine but not good for the flow of the show.


Really the guests on this one were terrible. Someone should of been there to argue with SE Cupp. Really underwhelming....

Most fourth panelists are awful.

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I did not watch last nights yet, it is on the DVR for today after work. But Wednesday's was pretty pretty pretty good. The guy who co-authored or should I say wrote Donald Trumps The art of the deal was on.

Too liberal this Friday for my taste. I need more/better conservatives on.

America Ferrara was horrible. It seemed she only liked Hilary because of the gender.
I don't really like the guy sitting on the left, the woman was a SJW and the conservative guy is too passive. Jesus Christ Bill, book better guests!

He was probably the most boring guest ever on the show.

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During her last few visits, Sippy Cup hasn't been as batshit crazy as she used to be.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way