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Real Time with Bill Maher Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2007 - 2007
Episode 1
Episode #5.1
Fri, Feb 16, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, fmr Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, TV host Craig Ferguson.
Episode 2
Episode #5.2
Fri, Feb 23, 200760 mins
Significant highlights of marine operations during 1965. Marine segments of film show operations in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam. Battle action and civic action are shown in the Vietnam scenes.
Episode 3
Episode #5.3
Fri, Mar 2, 200760 mins
Guests: Author/commentator John Ridley, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Rep. Barney Frank.
Episode 4
Episode #5.4
Fri, Mar 9, 200760 mins
Guests: Author David Kuo, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank, comedienne Roseanne Barr, author Deepak Chopra.
Episode 5
Episode #5.5
Fri, Mar 16, 200760 mins
Guests: Actor Jason Alexander, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, journalist Dan Rather; via satellite, comedian Chris Rock and fmr Gov.
Episode 6
Episode #5.6
Fri, Mar 23, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr Bush speechwriter David Frum, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin, musician John Legend.
Episode 7
Episode #5.7
Fri, Mar 30, 200760 mins
Guests: Radio host Michael Smerconish, comedian D. L. Hughley, Court TV's Catherine Crier.
Episode 8
Episode #5.8
Fri, Apr 13, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr Sen Bill Bradley, comedian Dana Carvey, Fmr White House Press Sec'y Scott McClellan.
Episode 9
Episode #5.9
Fri, Apr 20, 200760 mins
Guests: Author John O'Sullivan, commentator Amy Holmes, Gov. Brian Schweitzer (Mont.
Episode 10
Episode #5.10
Fri, Apr 27, 200760 mins
Guests: Actor Richard Belzer, NPR correspondent Jamie Tarabay, commentator Lisa Schiffren, Rep.
Episode 11
Episode #5.11
Fri, May 4, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr Rep Harold Ford, Jr., actor/activist Sean Penn, comedian Garry Shandling.
Episode 12
Episode #5.12
Fri, May 11, 200760 mins
Guests: Columnist Arianna Huffington, comic Paula Poundstone, pollster Frank Luntz.
Episode 13
Episode #5.13
Fri, May 18, 200760 mins
Guests: Actor Bradley Whitford, Rep Loretta Sanchez (Calif.), columnist John Fund, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.
Episode 14
Episode #5.14
Fri, May 25, 200760 mins
Guests: Humorist P. J. O'Rourke, actor Ben Affleck, Rep Ron Paul (Texas); via satellite, filmmaker Michael Moor.
Episode 15
Episode #5.15
Fri, Aug 24, 200760 mins
Guests: Actor Tim Robbins, journalist Michel Martin, writer Stephen Hayes; via satellite, Fmr Gov Mike Huckabee.
Episode 16
Episode #5.16
Fri, Aug 31, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr Sen Mike Gravel (Alaska), diplomat Barbara Bodine, musician John Mellencamp.
Episode 17
Episode #5.17
Fri, Sep 7, 200760 mins
Bill's first satellite interview is Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and former chief of staff to Colin Powell. The panel consists of academic Cornel West and Brooklyn hip hop artist Mos Def. Later in the program Bill does another satellite interview with famed political activist Ralph Nader.
Episode 18
Episode #5.18
Fri, Sep 14, 200760 mins
Bill interviews the Republican Senator from Nebraska Chuck Hagel via satellite. The iconic journalist Carl Bernstein joins the panel this week, along with the Democratic Congresswoman from Illinois Jan Schakowsky and comedian Drew Carey. Bill also welcomes author Robert Draper for a satellite interview to discuss his new book about the Bush presidency.
Episode 19
Episode #5.19
Fri, Sep 21, 200760 mins
Bill's first guest, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit Michael Scheuer, is welcomed via satellite. Musician Rob Thomas, actress/comic Janeane Garofalo, and author Salman Rushdie make up the panel this week. Bill then raises the topic of global warming with his second satellite interview, Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg, whose new book addresses the issue.
Episode 20
Episode #5.20
Fri, Sep 28, 200760 mins
First up on the satellite to talk about his new documentary on WWII is filmmaker Ken Burns. Bill invites House Democratic Caucus Chair Rahm Emanuel, author and Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson, and author/journalist Pete Hamill to the panel this week. Later on the satellite, Bill talks to CNBC's "Closing Bell" anchor Maria Bartiromo.
Episode 21
Episode #5.21
Fri, Oct 12, 200760 mins
To debate the politics of the week, Bill welcomes to the panel New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, MSNBC anchor Tucker Carlson, and co host of The View Joy Behar. Bill also does satellite interviews with former President of Mexico Vicente Fox and journalist Naomi Klein.
Episode 22
Episode #5.22
Fri, Oct 19, 200760 mins
Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards sits down with Bill this week. Bill is then joined by LA Times columnist Joel Stein, Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Hardball host Chris Matthews. Later Bill talks with chess master Garry Kasparov on the satellite about the geopolitics of Russia and the US.
Episode 23
Episode #5.23
Fri, Oct 26, 200760 mins
Guests: Commentator Andrew Sullivan, tennis pro Martina Navratilova, Gen Wesley Clark.
Episode 24
Episode #5.24
Fri, Nov 2, 200760 mins
Guests: Fmr CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband, fmr Amb Joe Wilson; political blogger Markos Moulitsas; NPR host Alison Stewart.