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Real Time with Bill Maher Season 19 Episodes
Season 19 Episode Guide
35 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Kellyanne Conway/Katie Couric/Matt Jones
Fri, Jan 15, 202160 mins
Guests: Kellyanne Conway - former Counselor to President Trump; Katie Couric - journalist and founder of Katie Couric Media; Matt Jones - author and host of Kentucky Sports Radio;
Episode 2
Frank Figliuzzi/Peter Hamby/Kamele Foster
Fri, Jan 22, 202160 mins
Guests: Frank Figliuzzi - Author and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence; Kmele Foster - co-host of "The Fifth Column" and co-founder of Freethink; Peter Hamby - Writer for Vanity Fair and host of "Good Luck America."
Episode 3
Heather Heying/Bret Weinstein/Van Jones/James Pogue
Fri, Jan 29, 202160 mins
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein - Evolutionary biologists and co-hosts of The DarkHorse Podcast; Van Jones - CNN political commentator; James Pogue - journalist and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine;
Episode 4
Jimmy Kimmel/Matt Welch/Charlotte Alter
Fri, Feb 5, 202160 mins
Guests: Jimmy Kimmel - host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!; Charlotte Alter - author and senior correspondent at TIME; Matt Welch - host of "The Reason Roundtable" podcast and "The Fifth Column" podcast.
Episode 5
Adam Kinzinger/Markos Moulitsas/Steve Schmidt
Fri, Feb 12, 202160 mins
Guests: Rep. Adam Kinzinger - Illinois' 16th Congressional District; Markos Moulitsas - Founder of The Daily Kos and co-host of "The Brief" podcast; Steve Schmidt - Founder of The Lincoln Project.
Episode 6
Megyn Kelly/Jon Tester/Ezra Klein
Fri, Feb 26, 202160 mins
Guests: Megyn Kelly - journalist and host of "The Megyn Kelly Show"; Sen. Jon Tester - Democratic Senator from Montana and author; Ezra Klein - New York Times opinion columnist, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast, and author.
Episode 7
Joe Scarborough/Frank Bruni/Charlamagne Tha God
Fri, Mar 5, 202160 mins
Guests: Joe Scarborough - co-host of Morning Joe and author; Frank Bruni - author and columnist for The New York Times; Charlamagne Tha God - co-host of "The Breakfast Club" and author.
Episode 8
Annabelle Gurwitch/Scott Galloway/Larry Wilmore
Fri, Mar 12, 202160 mins
Guests: Annabelle Gurwitch - Author and host of "Tiny Victories."; Scott Galloway - Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern and author; Larry Wilmore - comedian and co-creator of HBO's "Insecure"
Episode 9
Heidi Heitkamp/David Shor/Nick Gillespie
Fri, Mar 19, 202160 mins
Guests: David Shor - Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund; Nick Gillespie - Editor-At-Large at Reason; Heidi Heitkamp - former Democratic Senator from North Dakota and Co-Founder of the One Country Project.
Episode 10
Christopher Krebs/Caitlin Flanagan/Bret Stephens
Fri, Mar 26, 202160 mins
Guests: Christopher Krebs - former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Caitlin Flanagan - staff writer at The Atlantic and author; Bret Stephens - columnist for The New York Times and an MSNBC contributor.
Episode 11
Alex Padilla/Heather McGhee/Reihan Salam
Fri, Apr 9, 202160 mins
Alex Padilla - U.S. Senator from California; Heather McGhee - author and Board Chair of Color of Change; Reihan Salam - President of The Manhattan Institute and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Episode 12
Sharon Osbourne/Ian Bremmer/Rosa Brooks
Fri, Apr 16, 202160 mins
Guests: Sharon Osbourne - TV personality and former co-host of The Talk; Ian Bremmer - President of geopolitical risk firm Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; Rosa Brooks - professor at Georgetown School of Law and author
Episode 13
Fran Lebowitz/S.E. Cupp/April Ryan
Fri, Apr 23, 202160 mins
Guests: Fran Lebowitz - former contributing editor for Vanity Fair; S.E. Cupp - CNN contributor and host of CNN's "S.E. Cupp: Unfiltered."; April Ryan - DC Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for theGrio.com and author.
Episode 14
Ben Sheehan/Nancy MacLean/Thomas Frank
Fri, Apr 30, 202160 mins
Guests Ben Sheehan is the Founder of "O.M.G. W.T.F." and author of "OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work."; Nancy MacLean is an award-winning author and historian whose latest book is "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America."; Thomas Frank is the author of "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism." His previous works include "What's the Matter with Kansas?" and "Listen, Liberal."
Episode 15
John McWhorter/Elissa Slotkin/Rick Wilson
Fri, May 7, 202160 mins
Guests: John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University, contributing editor at The Atlantic, and author of "Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter - Then, Now, and Forever."; Rep. Elissa Slotkin is a Democratic congresswoman who represents Michigan's 8th district. She served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst and has held national security roles under Presidents Bush and Obama ; Rick Wilson is a Republican strategist and no. 1 NYT bestselling author of "Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump - and Democrats from Themselves."
Episode 16
Bob Costas, Nicholas Kristof, James Carville
Fri, May 28, 202160 mins
Guests: Bob Costas is a 29-time Emmy-winning sportscaster whose new show, Back on the Record with Bob Costas premieres later this year on HBO and HBO Max; Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The New York Times and co-author of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope; James Carville is a Democratic strategist and co-host of the weekly podcast, Politics War Room with James Carville and Al Hunt.
Episode 17
Ritchie Torres, John Kasich, Chris Matthews
Fri, Jun 4, 202160 mins
Guests: Rep. Ritchie Torres is a Democratic Congressman representing New York's 15th district. At 25 years old, Rep. Torres became NYC's youngest elected official and the first Afro-Latino, LGBTQ Member of Congress; Gov. John Kasich served two terms as the 69th Governor of Ohio and is now a senior political commentator for CNN; Chris Matthews is a TV anchor who hosted MSNBC's Hardball for 20 years. His new book is This Country: My Life in Politics and History.
Episode 18
Neil deGrasse Tyson / Rob Reiner / Rachel Bitecofer
Fri, Jun 11, 202160 mins
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, host of the Webby-nominated podcast StarTalk, and author of the new book, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going; Rob Reiner is a filmmaker and activist; Rachel Bitecofer is an elections analyst, political scientist and co-founder of Strike PAC.
Episode 19
Nikki Glaser/Paul Begala/Jane Coaston
Fri, Jun 18, 202160 mins
Guests: Nikki Glaser is a comedian, host of The Nikki Glaser Podcast, and host of HBO Max's forthcoming reality series, FBoy Island; Paul Begala is a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator; Jane Coaston hosts The New York Times' podcast, The Argument.
Episode 20
Quentin Tarantino/Max Brooks/Dan Carlin
Fri, Jun 25, 202160 mins
Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker, screenwriter and author whose new novel is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, based on his Oscar-winning film of the same title; Max Brooks is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council and a Nonresident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; Dan Carlin is the host of the podcast Hardcore History and author of the New York Times bestseller, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses.
Episode 21
Eric Adams/Stacey Plaskett/Joshua Green
Fri, Jul 30, 202160 mins
Eric Adams is the Brooklyn Borough President who's also the Democratic nominee for New York City Mayor and author of Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses.; Rep. Stacey Plaskett is a Democratic congresswoman from the United States Virgin Islands; Joshua Green is a senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek and author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the National Uprising.
Episode 22
Donna de Varona/Malcolm Nance/Ben Shapiro
Fri, Aug 6, 202160 mins
Guests: Donna de Varona is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming and founding member of Women's Sports Policy Working Group; Malcolm Nance is a career U.S. Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer, MSNBC contributor and bestselling author whose latest book is The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It.; Ben Shapiro is host of the daily podcast The Ben Shapiro Show and bestselling author of The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent.
Episode 23
Martin Short/Steve Martin/Donna Brazile/Michael Moynihan
Fri, Aug 13, 202160 mins
Martin Short and Steve Martin are actors, comedians and co-stars of the new series, Only Murders in the Building, premiering August 31st on Hulu. Their comedy tour, The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment, continues with upcoming stops in Reno, Paso Robles, Saratoga and Stamford; Donna Brazile is a columnist for USA Today, contributor to ABC News, and author of Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. Brazile served as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2012 and 2016-2017; Michael Moynihan is a National Correspondent for Vice News Tonight and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast.
Episode 24
Andrew Sullivan/Jackie Calmes/Max Rose
Fri, Aug 20, 202160 mins
Guests: Andrew Sullivan is the blogger of The Weekly Dish on Substack, whose new book is Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989 - 2021; Jackie Calmes is the Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of the new book, Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court; Max Rose is the former Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for COVID-19 and represented New York's 11th district in Congress from 2019-2021. He is a veteran of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Combat Infantry Badge.
Episode 25
Craig Whitlock/Katty Kay/Ralph Reed
Fri, Aug 27, 202160 mins
Guests: Craig Whitlock is a Washington Post investigative journalist and author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War; Katty Kay is the Washington Editor of Ozy Media and co-host of the When Katty Met Carlos podcast; Ralph Reed is the Founder and Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the author of For God and Country: The Christian Case for Trump.
Episode 26
Barbara Lee/Christina Bellantoni/George F. Will
Fri, Sep 10, 202160 mins
Guests: Rep. Barbara Lee is the Democratic Congresswoman representing California's 13th district; Christina Bellantoni is the Director of the Media Center at USC Annenberg's School for Communication and Journalism and a contributing editor with The 19th News, an independent nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy; George F. Will is a Washington Post columnist and author of the new book, American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020.
Episode 27
Anne Applebaum/Dan Savage/Gillian Tett
Fri, Sep 17, 202160 mins
Guests: Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer-prize winning historian, staff writer at The Atlantic, Senior Fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism; Dan Savage is the advice columnist behind Savage Love, author of Savage Love from A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, and host of the Savage Lovecast podcast; Gillian Tett is the Chair of the editorial board and U.S. Editor-at-Large of The Financial Times and author of Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life.
Episode 28
Tristan Harris/Jennifer Rubin/Richard Ojeda
Fri, Sep 24, 202160 mins
Guests: Tristan Harris is the co-founder of The Center for Humane Technology and co-host of the podcast, Your Undivided Attention; Jennifer Rubin is a Washington Post opinion columnist, MSNBC contributor, and author of the new book, Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump; Richard Ojeda is the national spokesperson for No Dem Left Behind and host of the daily webcast Ojeda Live on Facebook.
Episode 29
Stevie Van Zandt/Matt Taibbi/Katherine Mangu-Ward
Fri, Oct 1, 202160 mins
Guests: Stevie Van Zandt is a musician, actor, and activist whose new book is Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir; Matt Taibbi is the Editor of TK News on Substack and the co-host of the podcast, Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper; Katherine Mangu-Ward is the Editor-in-Chief of Reason and co-host of The Reason Roundtable podcast.
Episode 30
Steven Pinker/Killer Mike/Robert Costa
Fri, Oct 8, 202160 mins
Guests: Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard and author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters; Michael Render (a.k.a. Killer Mike) is an activist and musician who's one half of the group Run The Jewels. Their latest album, RTJ4 DELUXE, is out now across digital platforms; Robert Costa is a national political reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the new book, PERIL with Bob Woodward.
Episode 31
Saru Jayaraman/Andrew Yang/John McWhorter
Fri, Oct 22, 202160 mins
Guests: Saru Jayaraman is the Director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center, President of One Fair Wage, and author of One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America; Andrew Yang is the founder of the Forward Party and author of Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy; John McWhorter is a newsletter opinion writer for The New York Times and author of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.
Episode 32
Sean Spicer/Caitlin Flanagan/Chris Coons
Fri, Oct 29, 202160 mins
Guests: Sean Spicer is the former Press Secretary to President Trump and author of Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's Dangerous Plan for America; Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic; Sen. Chris Coons is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Delaware and the founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Climate Solutions Caucus.
Episode 33
Amy Klobuchar/Glenn Loury/Michael Eric Dyson
Fri, Nov 5, 202160 mins
Guests: Amy Klobuchar - U.S. Senator from Minnesota and author; Glenn Loury - Economics professor at Brown University and host of The Glenn Show; Michael Eric Dyson - Professor at Vanderbilt University and author;
Episode 34
Kevin O'Leary/Adam Schiff/Tavis Smiley
Fri, Nov 12, 202160 mins
Guest list [HBO]: Kevin O'Leary is a venture capitalist, founder of O'Leary Fine Wines, and co-host of ABC's Shark Tank; Rep. Adam Schiff is a Democratic Congressman from California and author of Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could; Tavis Smiley is the mid-morning host of KBLA TALK 1580, every weekday from 9am-noon.
Episode 35
Fareed Zakaria/Chris Christie/Eric Adams
Fri, Nov 19, 202160 mins
Guests [HBO]: Fareed Zakaria is the author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, whose new special, China's Iron Fist, premieres Sunday, November 21st at 9:00pm on CNNand CNN International; Gov. Chris Christie is the former New Jersey Governor and author of the new book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden; Eric Adams is a retired police officer, current Brooklyn Borough President, and Mayor-Elect of New York City.
