Bill Maher On ‘Real Time’s 20th Season, Being “Over Covid” & America’s Upcoming “Real Day Of Reckoning”

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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Maher is back and ready to rumble.“I feel like Covid is still the dominate issue of our lives right now and it should not be anymore,” the Real Time with Bill Maher host says as the HBO series prepares to kick off its 20th season tonight. “And I think the big discussion on our show Friday night when we go on, is that is should we continue with the Covid policies we’ve had in the past?”Set to feature a one-on-one interview with On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century author Timothy Snyder and panelists Rep.

Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Honestly podcast’s Barri Weiss, the Real Time 20th season debut will und undoubtedly see professional contrarian Maher also tackle the legacy and possible future of Donald Trump.

Even with a tendency to lapse into grumpy old white man mode and false equivalencies when it comes to the culture wars, Maher has proven an unsparing Cicero of sorts against the tyranny of Trumpism and the frequent ineptitude of American liberals.In that vein, the multi-Emmy nominated satirist spoke with me about his 2024 fears and the progress, or lack thereof, in the fight against the pandemic.

Looking back over the years, currently longest running late night host on the air Maher also noted the shifts he’s observed in the increasingly ravaged body politic since Real Time premiered in 2003 when George W Bush was in the White House.DEADLINE: Years ago I saw a documentary about the Rolling Stones and they interviewed the late great Charlie Watts outside some airplane hangar or something on a video shoot.