Overtime: Iran Deal, Trump Insults, GOP Tax Plan
/Bill and his guests – former Rep. Barney Frank, Martin Short, Rick Wilson, Catherine Rampell, and Bob Costas – answer viewer questions after the show.
New Rule: The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
/In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher says President Trump feels more comfortable around cosmopolitan Democrats than his own rural base.
Bob Costas: Football on the Brain
/Sportscasting legend Bob Costas joins Bill to discuss the future of football and the controversy over player protests of the national anthem.
Monologue: Dotard Trump
/Sparks flew this week between Fat Man and Little Boy (aka Donald Trump and Kim Jong Il); meanwhile, Republicans let their conscience guide them on health care.
Guest List: September 22, 2017
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The Interview:
Fmr. Rep. Barney Frank (D) served 16 terms as the U.S. Representative from Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District. He retired in 2013.
Twitter: @BarneyFrank
The Panel:
Martin Short is an actor and comedian currently touring with Steve Martin for their ongoing show, “An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.”
Catherine Rampell is a columnist for The Washington Post, where she recently wrote about free speech on college campuses.
Twitter: @crampell
Rick Wilson is a Republican strategist and contributor to the Daily Beast. He is currently at work on a feature documentary called, “Everything Trump Touches Dies,” about the first year of the Trump presidency.
Twitter: @TheRickWilson
Mid-Show Interview:
Bob Costas is a sportscaster for NBC and MLB networks. He was the prime-time host of twelve Olympic Games between 1992 and 2016.
Submit a question for this week’s guests using #RTOvertime and watch them answer LIVE after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel.
Submit Your Overtime Questions for September 22, 2017
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Rep. Barney Frank, Martin Short, Catherine Rampell, Rick Wilson and Bob Costas - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time Youtube Channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Trump Supporters: You Know You’re Being Conned, Right?
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One of the haunting things about Russia under Stalin was it was the dawn of Photoshop, and the Kremlin was constantly retouching official photographs to make people disappear. In the original picture Stalin has his arm around your shoulder, but then he kills you, and when it’s reissued he’s cuddling up to a dull patch of Leningrad sky.
Read MoreOvertime: J Edgar Hoover, Chelsea Manning, PC Colleges
/Bill and his guests – Bret Stephens, Fran Lebowitz, Salman Rushdie, and Tim Gunn – answer viewer questions after the show.
New Rule: Liberal States' Rights
/Bill takes a stand against the "outside agitators" who wants to interfere with California's progressive agenda.
25 Thing You Don't Know About Melania Trump
/Bill shares a few fun facts about First Lady Melania Trump.
Bret Stephens: Out of the Echo Chamber
/Pulitzer Prize-winning colulmnist Bret Stephens joins Bill to discuss the growing divide between liberals and conservatives.
Monologue: Amnesty Don
/Bill dishes on Donald Trump's dealings with Democrats in his Real Time monologue.
Guest List: September 15, 2017
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The Interview:
Bret Stephens is a columnist for The New York Times, and a contributor to MSNBC. His latest column is, “Campus Rape, a Survivor’s Story.”
Twitter: @BretStephensNYT
The Panel:
Salman Rushdie is an award-winning author of over a dozen novels. His latest is “The Golden House.”
Twitter: @SalmanRushdie
Fran Lebowitz is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her favorite color is none of your business and she hasn’t slept since 1962.
Mid-Show Interview:
Tim Gunn is the host and producer of Lifetime’s “Project Runway,” airing Thursdays at 9 p.m.
Twitter: @TimGunn
Submit a question for this week’s guests using #RTOvertime and watch them answer LIVE after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel.
Foxconn Comes to Washington
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Donald Trump is very, very excited about a new factory Taiwan’s Foxconn is building in Wisconsin. (In Paul Ryan’s district! What a coincidence!)
Read MoreSubmit Your Overtime Questions for September 15, 2017
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Bret Stephens, Fran Lebowitz, Salman Rushdie and Tim Gunn - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time Youtube Channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Labor Pains
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Last month, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi overwhelmingly voted not to join the United Auto Workers union. Bernie Sanders was fighting the good fight; he went down to Mississippi to march, he wrote op-eds, he talked up the vote on TV. But the union lost once again and, with UAW members now only building 54 percent of the cars and trucks manufactured in the U.S. (it was 85 percent in 1999), if things don’t change soon the union’s going to disappear altogether.
Read MoreNew Rule: Fee F**king
/Bill Maher examines the "Fuck-Up Economy," where companies - and political parties - profit from people's mistakes.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: We Rise
/Climate activist and author Xiuhtezcatl Martinez joins Bill to discuss his new book, "We
The "Gettable" Ken Bone
/Bill sits down with sweater-loving everyman Ken Bone to figure out how Democrats can win over voters like him.
Monologue: Trump in the Wind
/Bill Maher assesses Trump's hurricane response and his action on DACA in his Real Time monologue.
