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Man, Graham Platner comes up a lot in this one. I'm also not sure if I specifically mention there's no midshow comedy bit in this episode, but there's not. My old friend and comedian Katie Page joined the show this week to talk Real Time season 24, episode 17. It was... quite dull. The one on one interview is infuriating, and one of the panelists is a bad panelist. What a booking job! Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
In their 100th episode, hosts Will Weldon and Diego McCafferty embark on a thorough, often exasperated, critique of a recent Real Time with Bill Maher episode. They delve into Maher's dated monologue jokes, his bizarre interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about aliens and anal probes, and the panel's politically incoherent discussions. The hosts also reflect on the podcast's philosophy, the nature of comedy, and the psychic toll of engaging with content that feels so profoundly disconnected from shared human experience.
I got the new poster done so I can start promoting properly but come and see I Hate Bill Maher LIVE in Los Angeles California on June 27th at 9:30 pm aka the pervert hour. Get tickets here Real Time season 24 has taken a break this week, so in its place I have decided to take my guests Monika Scott (new!) and Emily Faye (returning!) from the Medium Literate Podcast down a horrible, horrible stroll through memory lane. I'm not going to give it away here (even though you can probably guess) and oh...
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There's another live I Hate Bill Maher happening on June 27th at the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles! Get Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-hate-bill-maher-live-tickets-1989800116713 Look, I know it's pretty rich coming from me given what this whole show is, but I resent having current events analyzed by some fucking pop history podcaster who has a show called "History's Greatest Fails". Like, be fucking serious!!! This week, Jeremy Appel returns to experience new Maher, and he insults ...
Listen, you know John Fetterman's going to be bad. You can on some level prepare for that. But can you ever be prepared for how annoying Dan Crenshaw is? I wager if you asked returning guest Charles Star, he'd say no... Listen to No Homework Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
I'll be honest: not my best Judgement Free Question Zone. Comedian Molly Ruben-Long this week joins the show this week to establish herself as probably my most high guest so far, and also what it was like being a New Atheist (TM!!!!) and slowly realizing, oh, these guys are assholes. Then we get into a pretty miserable Real Time episode that ends with Bill Maher proudly and angrily being an incredibly stupid asshole. Also, if I sound a little low energy at first I wanted to make sure I didn't sp...
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Writer and podcaster Katelyn Burns joins me this week to get insanely annoyed with Rahm Emanuel. I'd say she and I both agree that we can't wait until we're a few months into the 2028 primaries so that this guy will have definitely, 100% been forced out of the conversation of who is truly viable to run for president. Like, give me a break with this shit, he's such an absolute loser. Oh, also I didn't put in the Worm of the Week music because I lost track of where it was in the episode. Listen to...
Well, the episode is once again out on Thursday, not Wednesday. Because Will, Will never changes. Ella Dawson returns to the pod with her brain all filled up with Fallout New Vegas shit to talk about Real Time, season 24, episode 10. The episode features a panelist so loathed that another previous IHBM guest remarked "I don't think I can listen to this" (It's Douglas Murray). Well, whatever man, welcome to my fucking world! The panel is the first one all season where one panelist actually proper...
Real Time is off this week, so I am, too! But I guess actually not really, because I still did some house keeping and played some voicemails at the start of this. Looking back on it, I definitely would not describe it as "focused and to the point" but what are you gonna do, y'know? And after that? Oh baby, it's a compilation of clips from I Especially Hate Bill Maher's "Bella Thorne Month" series of episodes. You get to hear from Stefan Heck & John Cullen, Lisa Curry, Emily Faye, and Allen S...
Will I ever starr getting these things out on time again? Who can say, plus I'm a father now: no one can ask anything of me ever again. Writer and podcaster Joe Kassabian joins the show to talk about a Real Time episode that's heavy on Iran war talk, so of course the guests are 1. A former CIA agent, 2. A CNN legal correspondent, and 3. The loudest, dumbest man in sports media. I drove my parents to the airport at 3am and recorded this upon arriving home at like 4:30, and two hours prior to driv...
This is probably the most mixed up I've ever been with the order of the clips, but what are you gonna do. Anyway, Writer and comedian Jeremy Kaplowitz is my guest this week, and he gets to view the current show through the lens of someone who once watched Real Time because that was sort of what you did as a liberal in college 14 or so years ago! How was Real Time? Well, if you enjoy watching one panel member be systematically humiliated and ignored, mmmm this is the episode for you! Listen to Qu...
This week's guest was jack of all trades Josh Boerman. There's so much garbage in this episode of Real Time that we talked about it for two hours and forty five minutes and I am currently thinking about all the shit we didn't get to, and yet somehow the whole show was insanely dull. What a mess, man, I can't believe this thing was on television. I don't even know what to say here. Check out all the stuff Josh does , including Worst of All Possible Worlds Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Host...
Oopsie, I did a long one! Comedian/Film connoisseur Lucé Tomlin-Brenner joins the podcast this week, and wow wow wow if you're Bill Maher I bet you loved this fuckin' episode of Real Time. It's all about him, baby! We honestly don't talk about the war with Iran stuff because there just isn't a ton to say about it other than "what a fucking disaster (does Bill Maher disagree? Perhaps...) but we get really hung up on joke logic and also his interview technique. And I come up with the one good pun ...
Real Time is taking a little break this week, and since I am recovering from some family coming to visit I figured I would do the same by settling into the warm bath water of an old school Real Time episode. But how soothing is it REALLY? Answer: not so much. Andrew Sullivan is here! Also Ben Affleck, who will one day go on to become a Real Time legend. Plus, Bill Maher is lower energy than I remembered, and also treats a guest on the show about as badly as a talk show host could while not being...
Here are some clips from the first few Patreon episodes of 2026, including: The Psychology Zone feat Eoin Higgins (Andrew Sullivan on Club Random) Reverse Oppression Academy feat Chris James (Bert Kreischer on Club Random) This & That 2.0 (Junk Drawer Episode) Netflix Presents: A Ricky Gervais Comedy Special: Rich Cunt feat John Hastings To hear full episodes, subscribe to the Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
I HOPE YOU LIKE HEARING THE PHRASE "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME"!!!! Anyway, Rax King joined me this week to reacquaint herself with Bill Maher after over a decade away from occasionally watching him. Does she think he's gotten better with time? I mean I'm not even going to pretend like she does; she's immediately struck by how diminished she is. But he's not the only thing that's diminished: so is this fucking two person panel, as evidenced by the fact that this week the panel has, I cannot stre...
Wow, this show sucks! This episode's coming to you late because guest Taylor Lorenz, who was previously booked to do the show next month, saw who the interview guest was and said "I hate this man and must talk about it" (paraphrasing.) And we did! She is the rare guest who truly has as little familiarity with Bill Maher as possible, and also late night just in general, so it was FASCINATING to watch someone discover it via the worst possible example of it. We talk about the interview for a while...
UPDATE: I forgot to put in an audio clip towards the end of the episode, that's been corrected. The new season continues to trudge on, and this week writer Parker Molloy joins the show for a third straight week of Bill Maher conducted Epstein files talk! She's a great guest, but listen; some weeks writing this description is harder than others, because it's just like, yeah, this guy sucks ass and this show is bad. I think we do a pretty good job of making fun of it, but if you've listened to the...
God FUCKIN damn it, bro. I got nervous there would be an issue with Streamyard so I did a backup recording and it fucked the gain on my mic up so bad. It's making me insane, I gotta know better than to not check my levels, Jesus Christ. Anyway, games journalist and podcaster Maddy Myers was on the who this week, and she asked the question "Hey, why are you doing an entire season of new episodes?" I don't know, man. It's pretty funny how much worse he's gotten at his job, but hearing him do such ...
That's right, God of Emperor of Turn Mountain Will Weldon is back in the hosting chair (it's my wife's desk chair, which she will probably want back once she's back at work) to talk about the season 24 premiere of Real Time with Bill Maher. My guest this week? Writer, Comedian, and... pottist? Potterist? Pottery maker? Eliza Skinner. Eliza is immediately displeased with me for having her watch a modern episode, and then we are immediately confronted with the sub-punchlines of a monologue that mo...
Unable to find a guest, fill-in host John Hastings flies solo and just rips one out for 51 straight minutes. He really brings out the specific resentments that only Canadians who lived in England for a while have, and then he combines that with the rage and shame that former Canadian young conservatives have. Then he has a go at the Kennedys. Honestly, I think the only person or people that come up who he doesn't have a grudge against is Willie Nelson. I listened to all of these at 1.5 speed bef...
I continue to say "Hello baby" because I'm on paternity leave and babies need to be greeted, so writer and past guest Ella Dawson stepped in to cover my pathetic ass, and she brought fellow writer TJ Alexander with her! I could give a brief overview of the things they had to watch, but really I'll just warn people that PJ O'Rourke was on the panel and he's extremely fucking annoying. Check out TJ's newest book, A Lady for All Seasons, here Well well well, it would seem Ella ALSO has a book Hoste...
PATERNITY LEAVE HAS BEGUN! Special guest host Vera Drew ("The People's Joker") welcomes Nate Faustyn and David Allen from the Loose Lips podcast to talk Real Time season 9, episode 6. Vera wanted this specific episode for a reason she reveals once they get to it, and it's very funny to me, but before they all get there they have to sit through an ass kissing interview with Matt Taibbi, some bizarre prop comedy, and a SPECTACULARLY failed riff. PLUS a great example of why the producers of this sh...
I am breaking pat leave to bring you some Bill Maher news from the previous few weeks. This was the first part of an episode that also covered Bill Maher's interview on The Free Press' "Two Drinks with...". If you'd like to hear the rest of it (as well as the print interview that was published a few days before the video interview came out, which tricked me into subscribing to the Free Press (WHILE I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH MY NEWBORN CHILD) so that I could read it, subscribe to the Patreon her...
I ended up exposing myself to a lot of harmful Maher content over the year 2025, here is some of the stuff that has poisoned my brain the most. See you in 2026. Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon 00:00: Intro 01:47: Creep Shit 19:56: Failed Humor Attempts 26:51: Baffling Moments 36:52: Embarrassing Moments 48:30: Guest Moments 1:07:02: Petty Bitching Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Due to big time life stuff, I am unlocking this formerly Patreon exclusive episode which is about a piece of media that I think is kind of a foundational thing for I Hate Bill Maher: Bill Maher on "2 Angry Men", defending his dinner at the White House, and his subsequent monologue about it on the following episode of Real Time. He took the reaction to said monologue so poorly that he's still talking about it EVERY SINGLE WEEK, to this very day! However, this is him at his most freshly wounded, a...
