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Awards Chatter

Bill Maher - 'Real Time with Bill Maher'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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HBO's provocative talk show host discusses his rise through the comedy ranks, Donald Trump ("he's LOL every day"), Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ("never say anything that challenges their own audience") and his 1-for-35 track record at the Emmys ("I wear it as a badge of honor at this point"). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and on this episode my guest is a stand-up comedian

0:48.0

and television host Bill Maher, who from 1993 to 2002 was the host of

0:52.4

Politically Incorrect, which aired on Comedy Central and then

0:55.2

ABC, and who since 2003 has hosted real-time with Bill Maher on HBO.

1:00.9

Over the course of our conversation in Mars Office, which is in a bungalow on the

1:04.1

CBS television city lot in Los Angeles, Marr who turned 60 this year talks about a

1:10.0

wide range of topics, his comedic and political evolution, what it was like when

1:14.5

politically incorrect was canceled in the wake of comments that he made during the

1:17.5

week after 9-11, how he rebounded with his deal at HBO where he's worked much

1:21.9

more happily and freely, what his biggest problems HBO where he's worked much more happily and freely,

1:23.2

what his biggest problems are with today's society, from religion, which was the subject of his 2008 documentary

1:28.6

Religiousists, to Donald Trump who once sued him, to the Bernieier Bust crowd who he hopes to encourage to avoid

1:35.0

making the same mistake that he now feels he made when he supported Ralph Nader rather

1:39.4

than Al Gore in 2000.

1:41.5

He also offers some candid thoughts about his late night competitors, the people

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