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‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ Nets Biggest Audience In 8 Years

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 10:14am PDTTags: 2016 Obama's America, HBO, Ratings, Real Time With Bill Maher

Real Time With Bill Maher Dinesh D'SouzaHBO‘s political talk show Real Time With Bill Maher averaged 1.4 million viewers on Friday, marking the biggest audience for the show in almost eight years. The episode fell between the hot-button GOP and Democratic national conventions and featured a tense interview between Maher — an ardent supporter of President Obama who earlier this year donated $1M to his re-election campaign — and filmmaker-author Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza made the anti-Obama documentary 2016 Obama’s America, which finished in the top 10 at the weekend box office this past frame and is now the fifth-highest-grossing political documentary of all time, most recently surpassing Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. A combined 1.9 million watched the episode across two plays Friday night.

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HBO Renews ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ For Two More Seasons

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 9:50am PDTTags: Bill Maher, HBO, Real Time With Bill Maher
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Real Time With Bill Maher RenewedBill Maher‘s HBO series is sticking around not only for the upcoming presidential election but also for the following mid-term one. The pay cable network has signed a new three-year deal with Maher. … Read More »

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Obama Adviser Says Bill Maher’s Attacks On Women Are “Not Excusable,” But Rush Limbaugh’s Are Worse: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 2:22pm PDTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh

Bill Maher’s profane characterizations of women including Sarah Palin are “not excusable in any way,” President Obama’s chief election strategist David Axelrod says a day after word spread that he backed out of of an appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. But he adds in an interview … Read More »

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Obama Adviser David Axelrod Drops Plan To Appear With Bill Maher: Report

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 8:26am PDTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher

Barack Obama Bill MaherThere’s no explanation for why President Obama’s political strategist decided not to join the comedian on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. A campaign spokesman simply confirmed that Axelrod is “not scheduled to go on at this time,” despite promotions saying he would appear, website Politico reports. But we can make a pretty good guess as to what’s going on: Maher has become a lightening rod for critics on the right who argue that there’s a double standard in the recent barrage of attacks on Rush Limbaugh — who has been losing advertisers since he went on-air to call an advocate of employer health plan payments for contraceptives a “slut” and a “prostitute.” (He later apologized for using the words.) Maher put himself into the political fray recently when he donated $1M to PAC Priorities USA, a super PAC that supports the president. Last week Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren attacked Axelrod’s plan to appear with Maher, who has used virulent language to describe Sarah Palin. Van Susteren asked: “Is that the Obama price tag for decency? Give a million and you can be as nasty to women as you want?” Axelrod isn’t alone in his new skittishness about Maher. Read More »

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Bill Maher Makes $1 Million Obama Donation

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 10:51pm PSTTags: Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher

According to his longtime publicist Sarah Fuller, this happened tonight at the end of Bill Maher’s comedy special CrazyStupidPolitics: Live from Silicon Valley which streamed live on Yahoo. Maher brought out a check and pledged a personal donation of $1 million … Read More »

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