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 ...
Feb 05, 2026•2 hr 32 min
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...
Jan 28, 2026•1 hr 58 min
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...
Jan 21, 2026•51 min
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...
Jan 14, 2026•1 hr 30 min
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...
Jan 07, 2026•1 hr 46 min
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...
Jan 05, 2026•17 min
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....
Dec 31, 2025•1 hr 18 min
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...
Dec 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
I know that some of the more perverse listeners of the podcast prefer an episode that's like a rip roarin' 180 minutes long or whatever, but I have to admit that a one hour and fifteen minute episode about a fairly innocuous 60 minute television show was like, really good for me at this particular moment. The real downside is that internet sick-o Stefan Heck (streamer/podcaster) really deserved worse than this, but he also seemed authentically traumatized by having to watch Bella Thorne on Club ...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Comedian Jono Zalay joins the podcast just in time to experience something I was absolutely dreading: the hurricane Katrina episodes. That's right, one of the great tragedies and disasters in American history has arrived. While it's maybe not the best thing for the podcast, it's definitely easier on my brain that at least for now Bill Maher is extremely angry about it, and for the right reasons reasons and at the right people, but that doesn't mean there wasn't some weird and/or annoying shit at...
Dec 03, 2025•1 hr 55 min
A terrifying vision of a horrible alternate reality. Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 02, 2025•5 min
This week on I Hate Bill Maher returning guest Francesca Fiorentini and I watched a very specific episode of Real Time for a very specific reason... I might be overselling how special either of those things are. Watch both and future episodes of Francesca's show, The Bitchuation Room, here Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 27, 2025•1 hr 47 min
In an I Hate Bill Maher first, returning guest Caron Clancey (writer/director/ORGANIZER!!!) watches the latest episode of Real Time LIVE! AS IT AIRED (sort of, I paused it like seventy five times.) Bill Maher is weirdly dismissive of the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing, Scott Galloway believes in individual solutions to societal problems, and Josh Barro honestly bothers me a lot less than I thought he would. Donate to Solidarity and Snacks here Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. S...
Nov 20, 2025•2 hr 34 min
It pleases me to see my enemies in such a diminished state. Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2025•2 hr
Jon Gabrus joins the show to talk about two appearances Bill Maher made at the Playboy Mansion. Subscribe to I Hate Bill Maher here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 11, 2025•8 min
Man oh man this guy has completely lost the plot, I swear to GOD dude. Jane Harrison returns to watch the latest episode of Real Time, which I unfortunately felt compelled to talk about because Marjorie Taylor Greene was on it. However, in a truly bizarre twist of fate, she was nowhere near the most unhinged part of the show because we got to hear Bill Maher talk about his deep, deep belief in the existence of aliens, and there ended up being a lot of mechanical noise because we got so worked up...
Nov 06, 2025•2 hr 17 min
Writer and podcaster Jesse Hawken joins me this week to talk about being a decades long Bill Maher hater, and then Bill Maher on this episode of Real Time validates that belief system by doing an all time rude reverential interview with Cindy Sheehan. Plus! a real yelling man heavy panel with V, Dan Savage, and *groans* Mike Huckabee. Listen to Junk Filter Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 29, 2025•2 hr 10 min
Comedian and podcaster Patrick Monahan is my guest this week and his first ever full episode of Real Time reminds him of just how casually cruel the 00's were, and we also witness a startlingly lazy and uninspired panel performance from a generationally important comedian. Listen to What a Time to be Alive Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Leave the show a voicemail at (323) 545-6727 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 22, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Yeah yeah yeah, it's late, I don't know, I got a lot goin' on, GET OFF MY BACK!!!! Look man, myself and my friend comedian Emily Faye (returning guest, if you are a Patreon subscriber) watched another episode of this dumb ass show and it was sort of startlingly unremarkable. Gore Vidal was funny for reasons both intentionally and not, Al Franken got off a good joke at the end there, and Charles Barkley was good enough that we both wished he had been on the panel proper. God, why are there so man...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 53 min
PATREON EPISODE UNLOCKED: Comedian/Big time comedy fan rejoins the podcast to watch his 2022 HBO special #Adulting. In-between our overall complaints, I highlight some specifically terrible jokes, in addition to one joke I actually liked, and Mike gives Bill Maher notes as if he were his stand-up teacher. EDITED 12/1/2024 Added the intro, which I forgot to do upon initial upload Darren Knight eating shit at JfL because he's a fucking hack: https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/darren-knights-performan...
Oct 09, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Journalist Mel Buer joins the show to bear witness to the glory of America's forever culture war! Mel was not especially familiar with Bill Maher coming into this but brother you better believe she'll be thinking about him for a LONG time after! A panel from Hell, Real Time bottom of the barrel bingo, and the obscenely difficult struggle of trying to come to terms with the fact that a guy who sucks this bad at what he does has been rewarded for doing it for almost his entire life. PLUS I don't t...
Oct 02, 2025•1 hr 38 min
I know, it's late, sorry I'm not perfect!!! The first 45 minutes the audio is kind of janky due to my assuming Streamyard wouldn't just suddenly change up my settings for no reason, but here is a very fun episode with writer and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky. As the result of having an extremely long commute early in her career, Mattie may be in the top five guests when it comes to how much Real Time they have ingested prior to being on the show, but that doesn't leave her any less aghast at wha...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 59 min
Look man, if you were one of those people praising Bill Maher for pushing back on Ben Shapiro one single time, I have bad news for you: your ass got played. Watch one of John's 983 comedy specials here Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 19, 2025•2 hr 37 min
Older men loved to introduce millennial women to Real Time with Bill Maher! Women don't dip! Rachel Fisher from the Hollywood Crime Scene podcast joins me to talk about gender TRUTHS and REALITIES! Actually, we primarily talk about Real Time season 3, episode 9. Bill Maher sets a personal record for women over 25 that he's openly attracted to in one episode (two), a panelist has a smug off with the show's host, and a Republican from Wyoming tells Bill Maher not to be so racist against people fro...
Sep 11, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Classic episode of Real Time here, and by that I mean it was so boring my guest and I literally hard a hard time finding things to talk about, outside of the midshow comedy bit and the final two minutes of panel discussion. Who was that guest, you ask? Why, it was comedian Brandie Posey, and also thankfully we were given a brief reprieve from the episode by her eighteen year old dog waking up and doing that very throaty whine that chihuahua mixes do. In a new twist on an old classic, Brandie is ...
Sep 04, 2025•1 hr 36 min
THIS IS A PREVIEW OF THE PATREON EXCLUSIVE EPISODE OF "I ESPECIALLY HATE BILL MAHER" We just ended up recording for too long for me to get this thing out with only like a six hour turnaround, so here is Woody Allen on Club Random, one day late, featuring actual Woody Allen fan (but not defender, don't worry) Andrea More. Obviously, given who the Club Random guest is, I simply must slap a content warning on here for talk of childhood sexual abuse; we also talked how strange it is that Bill Maher ...
Sep 03, 2025•9 min
It may be two days late, but it was all worth it because this week on the podcast I am joined by David Roth (a co-founder of Defector Media, as well as a host of The Distraction) to talk about having always had Bill Maher just sort of around, in the periphery, kind of bothering you at a low level all the time. Then we get into Real Time season 3, episode 7, and both remember a time in culture that was, too say the least, quite bad. Bill Maher continues to beg for Republicans to give him this one...
Aug 29, 2025•2 hr 13 min
I have no idea why I kept banging on my mic arm, but not much I can do about it now! This week the show takes look into the past, but way less of the past than normal, when I am joined by writer/TV PhD haver Laura Langlade to talk about Real Time, season 13, episode 20, and episode whose taping SHE LITERALLY ATTENDED. Before that, we talk about Bill Maher as a way to bond with your politics knower Father, and the moment when you well and truly internalize someone is an absolute creep. Than it's ...
Aug 21, 2025•2 hr 14 min
Real Time returns after a five week hiatus and THIS is what we get?!?! Podcaster and journalist Alex Goldman was my guest this week, and not only was this his first ever full episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, but it was also one of the most uninspired episodes of television I personally have ever seen. We talk about Alex's fairly low level of Maher familiarity, some questions about how he would handle Bill Maher's particular personality quirks, and then get down to a particularly joke light ...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Heads up: this episode is NOT covering the most recent episode of Real Time, that episode will be out next week due to a scheduling error on my part. Instead, you're getting next week's episode this week, which is great because writer Eoin Higgins, the man who had to endure the post-White House Dinner Episode™ is back, and this time he's getting a good look at Classic Maher™. As so often happens, things take a sharp turn STRAIGHT DOWN towards the end of the episode, and neither of us liked it AT...
Aug 08, 2025•1 hr 54 min
