I Hate Bill Maher

Alt title: "Is anyone else seeing this? Well, don't." Other alt title: "Is anyone else lying about 'supporting trans people' to such an absurd degree?" <-Consider this a TWFirst time guest Kyle Ayers and multi time guest Mike Carrozza (comedians, the lot of them) join the podcast to talk about the 2025 HBO comedy special "Is Anyone Else Seeing This?" which is truly, TRULY atrocious. You can literally hear the energy slowly drain out of the guests as the episode goes on, to where they go from talking over each other almost constantly, to sitting there in near silence seemingly on the verge of tears. I LOVE TO HARM MY FRIENDS VIA MY PODCAST!!!!! Genuinely, this is probably the worst comedy special ever recorded. It has no flow, it is not constructed properly, it is mostly him whining and bitching about his personal grievances with seemingly no ability to see that shit is not funny, nor does any of it really resemble a joke. There is also an unbelievable amount of transphobia, and it's just sprinkled all over the special because, once again, THIS MAN CANNOT PUT TOGETHER A SET! You group the same topics together, with maybe a call back or two later; you don't just jump back and forth between three topics, over and over. Any comic with any experience would have put this set together by saying something like"First my transphobic chunk, then my I hate kids stuff, and then the sex stuff". This comic would also be a bad person. Oh my God, OH MY GOD, this is the most incompetent thing ever!!!!Go see what Kyle is up to, live dates and podcasts and suchGo see what Mike is doing, live dates and podcasts and suchTo hear the previous episode Mike and I did about a Bill Maher HBO special, plus dozens of hours of other crap about this guy, subscribe to the PatreonAlso, shout out to Empty Heaven for doing some of the jingles for the show (none of which appear in this episode, lol, but they do in every other main feed ep.)

I swear to God, I am trapped in some sort of bizarre punishment loop where I am forced to listen to Bill Maher complain about how the media doesn't talk about the important issues, followed by him talking about the exact same stupid shit he's mad at the media for talking about. Am I insane?! Is this not ridiculous behavior?! Anyway, comedian Christie Bahna joined the show this week. She had a real life encounter with someone Bill Maher adjacent. Guess if it was good of bad...Also, the writer referenced in this episode is not the same writer who has been referenced in the past, there's an age difference of probably at least 25 years, from the sounds of it.Check out Christie hereSupport the podcast on Patreon here

I guess I should put a content warning on here since there is so much flippantly expressed approval for statutory rape.Look, while the guest this week, comedy/organizer Nato Green is great, the episode Real Time really is not. Before we get to that, Nato tells me about how one Comedy Central exec making the worst of three possible choices in the mid 90's created the horrific future that we now live in (when it comes to Bill Maher, anyway), and all the ways that Bill Maher does the polar opposite of what Nato thinks political comedy should be. THEN we get to this god forsaken episode, which features a panel with absolutely no chemistry, a uh "bold thinker" that Bill Maher just asks about the Bachelorette, a truly nauseating mid-show comedy bit, and finally some of the most joyless New Rules you've ever seen. Cool, man.Go see Nato while he's on tourSupport I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

A tendon in my wrist is fucked up or this would've been done and posted on time.This week on the pod! Guest Ellory Smith (comedian, writer... FOR TELEVISION) joins me in person so you KNOW my cat took the opportunity to derail the podcast by seeking attention from a new woman that has entered our apartment. ALSO! We discuss not the absurd frequency with which people frequently get our names wrong, but also Real Time season 3, episode 3. It kind of feels like the second chapter in a two parter, because Ward Churchill, who was mentioned during the panel last week, makes an appearance LIVE on the SHOW for an interview that shows why Bill Maher is an absolute master at his job! Then there's a panel where he is, if I recall correctly, on the clear and obvious wrong side of every single thing that they talk about. Welcome to 2005, where hitting your kids is still cool!(?)Ellory goes on tour, she posts about it on her Instagram go see herSupport I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

So, to start, this was recorded before wacky Israel began attempting to start World War III by going psycho mode on Iran. so don't expect any references to said deeply upsetting world events.Before Bill Maher started singing the "ageism is the last allowable form of discrimination in America" tune, he had episodes like this where he takes like nine shots at the now Queen Consort Camilla for being a nasty old sack of shit. He also defends Mary Kay Letourneau... again! He's done it before! What the fuck, man?! Well, at least I got to inflict it on another person, podcaster and music guy Chris Wade. This was his first ever episode of Real Time, so uh I bet he's not thrilled with me for asking him to do this!Check out "And Introducing" here! Or, Chapo Trap House Here (I feel ridiculous plugging a podcast I'm sure anybody who listens to this one is already at least a little familiar with, but rules are rules)Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

THIS IS A PREVIEW OF THE PATREON EXCLUSIVE EPISODE OF "I ESPECIALLY HATE BILL MAHER"You're not going to believe, but a famous comedian well past the peak of their fame has a podcast (I was never famous, do not try to own me with this). Bill Maher went on Howie Mandel's podcast, and despite Howie Mandel's best efforts Bill Maher just talks about the exact same shit he always talks about. What's the point of talking to this guy?! WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS MAN?!?!Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

Is Dennis Miller a sex symbol? Do you reach a certain age and then start becoming a teen again? Are you old if you remember someone's Dad putting cards into a satellite box? None of those questions are pressing, but they do get asked during this episode of I Hate Bill Maher, featuring comedian and writer Meg Mackay! Lately, I feel like the thing that's been breaking brains has been the horrible guests booked on Real Time, but this week we've got some real old fashioned, traditional Maher induced rage. Man, what a piece of shit this guy is and was. Fuck! Anyway, Meg was great, I love to open each season of the show with a foreign national.Fuck man, I knew I saw Meg's show "Don't Even" streaming somewhere, and not just somewhere, but on Tubi TV, baby.Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

Dude, you can just Google "Andrew Sullivan racist" and you'll get a bunch of people talking about it, I don't need to keep doing it.It's the season 2 finale of Real Time with Bill Maher, and a bad time was had by both myself and my guest, Comedian/Podcaster/Screenwriting EXPERT Caitlin Durante.This episode is actually pretty wild: Republicans have won, so you know that means they have to be big crybabies about it. Andrew Sullivan won't shut up, Alan Simpson goes sicko mode, and the previously unknown Noam Chomsky makes an appearance.Listen to the Bechdel Cast hereSupport I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon

Lesbo lesbo lesbo! Can you even think of something funnier than just the IDEA of a lesbian?! Hahaha FUCKIN' HILARIOUS, RIGHT!??!!?Comedian and PODCASTER (I capitalized it because he's got a few of them) Matt Lieb joins the podcast this week, and boy oh boy, this was a real up and down episode. The panel is actually kind of interesting, because while it's three liberals, it's three different kinds of liberals (including one guy who doesn't understand that he's a liberal, because he applies "conservative" way too broadly beyond a strictly political meaning), and they end up having an actual, real argument about electoral politics. Plus, the realization that conversations about the Democrats twenty years ago were they same as they are today hits Matt like a God damned Orbital Railcannon Strike (right right down left right up).Check out Bad Hasbara here, Pod Yourself a Gun here, and the Frotcast hereSupport I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon