Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, September 27, 2024
Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 22nd season Friday, September 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:07 a.m., exclusively on HBO.
This week features a one-on-one interview with Fran Lebowitz, author and social commentator who is on tour for An Evening With Fran Lebowitz.
This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher, and bestselling author of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the STONE AGE to AI; and Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
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Last time he asked her a question but then started a tirade about something.
An interesting selection of guests, should be a good show.
Looking forward to another Friday night with Bill Maher!
Fran Lebowitz is always irreverent and entertaining and the panel was unusually intellectual, I agree, but that was better than Bill having to argue with them to vote against TFG. But the best, I thought, was his final point in New Rules. This country is far from perfect, but it's pretty damn good compared to most of the rest of the world - and if we want improvements, we'd better GOTV! 
Glad that you had great pizza to go with the show!
Not sure if Bill couldn't keep up with the panel guests or he just let them have their say, but either way it worked out, LOL. And I also agree with you regarding social media. As Bill said in his New Rules segment, people can be fooled into advocating against their own best interests if there's no fact checking.
And then I read about the abuses right here on DU - first there was Cambridge Analytica and then the whistleblower who worked there so I certainly never regretted not joining.
And in the past few years - since the 2016 election - the falsehoods have gotten more serious and scary. Back before the 2016 election I finally quit watching the news, I couldn't stand hearing one more boast or insult from the offensive blowhard, figured I'd turn it on again after the election was over - and we know how that went.
And in the years since it's become worse than anything we ever imagined, those who not only believe the lies, but are willing to participate in violence. And no matter how ludicrous the lies, the deluded still believe them. It's like the frog in the gradually boiling water analogy - they've gotten so they will believe anything. And I'm sure hoping that the result of November's election will be the start of bringing sanity back to this country - but even so, it's going to take a good long while. 
