I listen to this podcast because it is raw and fun. Bill sets the tone, occasionally about politics or about timely topics. I enjoy it very much.

Bill has interesting guest on the show and it’s possible to painfully get thru each episode. I listen for the guests. Bill is constantly interrupting to try to prove he’s the smartest in the room, yet comes off as a petulant child with his views. Take a lesson from the OG, Johnny. He complemented the guest experience. Didn’t try to talk over the guest

Bill, on Real Time I get the interrupting because you not only moderate but also keep things moving. On your podcast, yes it’s a conversation not an interview but the interrupting is insufferable (at times) after you pose a question & then the topic drifts off course. Drives me nuts!!

Been listening since the start sometimes Bill can be a bit cringe but overall I enjoy listening.

I've long enjoyed Real Time as one of the few media venues where people who disagree engage in something approximating open and honest discussion, seasoned with some pretty shrewd (and funny) political commentary from Maher. This is not that. Rather, this seems to be an expression of Maher's apparent obsession with celebrity. The guests are pretty consistently vapid, uninteresting people or outright scum (looking at you, Matt Gaetz), leading me to skip the majority of episodes. But even when the guests are worth listening to, Maher often gets so high and tipsy that he literally can't track the conversation. He'll make a point or a joke, the guest will respond to it, and Maher reacts like he has no idea what they are talking about or how they even got on the subject. It's frankly a bit embarrassing--and more than a little frustrating--as a listener, made worse still by the cloying neediness of the man as he sweats all over his famous guests, grasping for a word of approval. Maher's habit of mistaking his own level of conviction in a position as an objective gauge of its accuracy or insightfulness is also on full display here. That seems to get tamped down a bit on Real Time, but here you get to seem him have a sort of a reactionary fit any time his various anti-science views come up.

Bill STOP talking. Let someone else speak. He asks guest questions but then he answers for them. Guests are interesting but Bill speaks over them so often it’s unbearable

Can Bill Maher ever shut up and let his guest actually answer a question?

Love BM, but the independent and strong thinker cred took a big hit when he got won over by a dinner and an autographed piece of paper by trump. Objectively speaking, it was very weak.

The recent episode with Drew Barrymore was 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you to you both for such a highly honest, intellectual, witty, totally on-point conversation. I felt like I was sitting there with you both. You are BOTH such “sane” humans in this thing we call life and your energy was both refreshing and contagious. Thanks for coming together. I hope you get to host that dinner party - and Drew - I hope you went and measured his round table right after the episode!🤣🤘

Really enjoyed show with Drew Barrymore, the two of you clicked so well with your conversation, so real and honest.

I used to love Bill Maher. Both his HBO show and Club Random. Whines about everything. In Insufferable.

Was disappointed. He did most of the talking and didn’t give Billy Joel a lot of room/time to tell his story. It was all about Bill M.

I thought I had enough of Billy Joel but Bill knows so much about his music it blew my mind. Thanks for the dissection. It was fascinating to listen to.

Great episode!

Incase people never connect the dots and understand how these people like Bill and all of the others are put in places to control the view of the people. So, he’ll pretend to hate trump to get all of the people on the left to like him, then slowly start agreeing with trump, this is how the system works, and bill is part of that system. Why do you think he has Free Mason brick walls in the background and always making the 666 hand gestures. Plus the million others. This world is a stage, don’t get invested in any of them, they are all playing us, once you let your emotions get tied in, they have won.

Too much Bill and not enough Billy

It’s getting harder to watch/listen to the podcast. Bill does the majority of talking, instead of letting the guest talk. It’s not a conversation.

Bill’s guests are usually more interesting than he is, which is a good thing. What I’m REALLY tired of is his perseveration on 1) his sex life and preoccupation with blowjobs, 2) his pandering to the Right, which he claims is just playing it down the middle (he says he’s your average liberal, but he’s not), 3) his casual bigoted trashing of the trans community (multiple mentions of “men in the women’s locker room), and last but not least his overtly defensive and obnoxious touting of his meeting with Trump. Bill, it’s called SUCKING UP and it’s seriously pathetic.

Bill is the Bill you signed up for, you’ll hear a more in-depth side of who guest are than anywhere else.

I love Bill’s show when his interviews are short (say an hour and a bit of change) and he’s not too stoned.

Bill claims to do some of his best work when he's high. I disagree. He loses the thread and gets giggly. Also - who knew that Tom Green was so socially awkward? That was a painful interview.

You are no longer a wit!!!! I’m so tired of him looking to the side for a reaction!! Too old

why only conservatives guests on this podcast? should me equal, and not just crazy maga guests. I enjoy Mr Bill M interviews but in tired of listening to this trump supporters.

I like ‘long format Bill’!

Bill’s failing relevance means he has to get on all fours for MAGATS now. Gross 🤢. He is also super sleazy with female guests.

Typical smug interview, this time with Penn who can’t even talk. No one will excuse you for bending the knee Maher

Always look forward to this casual interview on Sunday afternoon.

I appreciate having discussions with people of different viewpoints. It's easy to dehumanize, but at the same time, it's their ideas that are dehumanizing (not the people) and some of the ideas being expressed here, like Mamets, are only defended by simple emotion, ad hominem, conspiracy, or one-upsmanship like 'your john raped children. Why are you bringing up that my Carl does?' You can't actually have a real conversation, you have to resign yourself to just waving across the fence in order to coexist in a country, that's so bipolar.

I understand that this podcast is separate from the show, but I am extremely disappointed in the lazy and problematic Freak-end update this last week on Real Time. I’m not sure who allowed that through, but that needs to be walked back. That whole segment set me off. It showed the lack of education that Bill actually has on that particular topic.

Bill , ask a question and then SHUT UP AND LISTEN. My god , he has a guest , and forgets that we are here to hear the guest ,not you Bill

Wow that was an awesome interview with Mamet. That guy is fascinating and please don’t waste time talking politics with him next time.

Trash - don’t waste your time! Bill , go watch some Carlin YouTube videos and get a clue ! Good comedy speaks truth to power and doesn’t punch down on easy targets like Facebook bots that comment on the LA fires ! Oooh, what courage! Bills interview with Matt Gates literally made me throw up in my mouth . Why would you have him on talking about the virtues of being a sugar, daddy? Cringe . You’re so edgy well it was so nice to hear you on pod save talking about your personal chef and all your assistants.

it started off good but now its mostly right wing people being interviewed and getting their talking points out

He interviews nobody other than right wing kooks

I love the episodes between you and Jillian Michaels! Awesome podcast!

She constantly interrupts and made it hard to listen to a podcast I usually enjoy

Wish he’d platform someone other than a lunatic.

Thanks for making it available in podcast form.

Have always like Bill but the podcast form isn’t for him. His worst qualities come out. Everything is about him and how he knows about (x topic) more than anyone.

I could listen to you guys talk for 1000 hours.

Good show

While you often irritate me, I do commend you for your transparency and openness to dialogue. Kudos for bringing Charlie Kirk on.

Used to be cool…. Now will cozy up to any jerk to try & feel like he’s still got it

Speaking of government conspiracy theories on the murder of Lincoln, etc., can someone please tell Terence & Bill that the Federal Reserve wasn’t created until 1913? 😂

Bill is trying to get the left and liberals back to where they need to be to stay relevant. I’ve watched woke ideology ruin liberalism over the last couple decades and it’s got to stop. There is nothing liberal about wokeism. It is an indoctrination echo chamber of half baked ideas confined in a totalitarian framework- agree with us entirely or be cancelled. Very much the tactics of the inquisition and the Stalinist state. The woke playbook reads like an updated version of 1984. Bill is one of the few classic liberals that has the balls to take on this infectious mind set while still throwing punches at the right wing zealots. And he’s right on track in talking to people that he disagrees with and seems to find some common ground with most all of them. This is what the nation needs to move forward before we dissolve into chaos.

Bill, How about putting that Kanye session behind a paywall and donating all the proceeds to the JFNA?

I often agree with Bill Maher, but he’s so smug and obnoxious I can’t stand listening to him. Watch other comedians talk to him. You can see how little respect they have for this blowharx.

Devils advocate cosplay- conservative op

Bill, I still love real time, but the show here fawning over Charlie Kirk? He’s not really that smart, just a religious zealot who drinks the koolaid. There are better conservative guests to give time with. And he certainly doesn’t need to be on real time, unless you bring the anti Charlie Kirk on to give a valid point/counterpoint. Giving too much credit to the maga crowd while ignoring topics that matter.

Douche-nozzle. No integrity.