Real Time with Bill Maher is a U.S. television program broadcast on HBO since Friday, February 21, 2003. Real Time with Bill Maher is currently the second most popular show on HBO and 136th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 647,000 people (0.2% rating, up +15% from March 28) as of the daily audience measurement on . Real Time with Bill Maher is also shown on CNN since March 2024. Real Time is hosted by William Maher (69).
Real Time with Bill Maher daily P2+ ratings chart
Real Time with Bill Maher Ratings
Demographic breakdown of the most recent historical ratings of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO as of Friday, April 11, 2025.
Real Time isn't close to the most watched HBO program. Last Week Tonight crushes it. The once great Maher is a pot addled has been who no longer knows who he is.
Maher is exponentially better than that whiney Stewart disciple, as "Last Week" rivals the partisan laziness of Sarah Silverman's worst work; just pointing at one side and scraping for anything that fits the agenda is s**t humor.
Maher calls 'em all out, something the pissant Brit has never done well.
Reading some of these comments is hilarious because Bill really hasn't changed his views or style much at all. I've watched him from when he started, go watch episodes from 2010s he's the same. The fact is a certain segment of viewers has lurched so far left that suddenly Bill doesn't seem like a liberal champion.
He made fun of mostly republicans in earlier years because the Tea Party people where crazy, now democrats have caught up with their own crazies so he makes fun of them too (while still mocking the crazy MAGAS)š¤·š¼
It just cracks me up seeing progressives flip out over a show that doesn't just let them drool on themselves in simplistic agreement 100% of the time as well as seeing Fox News/Republicans try & use Bill to 'take down' the left when it's their craziness he mocks the mostš
None of the decrease is politically motivated, it is just a fact that people are cutting cable. So this will end soon when he is canceled for being highly paid and not bringing customers. Good riddance
I stopped watching Cult Time with Bill Maher long ago. Pretty bad when is for MAGA Republican the Party of Hate, Lie, Fear and Revenge is watching and defending him. I have NO Respect for Maher.
I have cancelled HBO and will never watch another Episode of Bill Maher. His Jew Privilege of weakly vile comments about Muslims and Christians while being an atheist but support the brutal ZIONIST REGIME of Israel is absurd. He can say whatever he wants the second you clap back at him or Ben Shapiro these zionist become unhinged babies. His comparisons to Christians living in Gaza then not is so dishonest but another Zionist ploy. Christians were 15% under muslim rule with equal rights. No churches were destroyed in fact protected for 1000 years. The christians movie to Gaza in 1949-1950 was because Jews murdered 40,000 christians and muslims from mainland Palestine and forced the rest into Gaza and West Bank. Quickly they saw the treatment of Gaza and had the means to leave. Muslims did not. Google jews spitting on christians all over Israel. Ask any christians who is the oppressor. Bill knows this but uses trickery an old ZIONIST PLOY. BOYCOT BILL
They (israel) do have to defend themselves at every turn, so why didn't they, when bobo knew, that an attack was imminent? It's because he wanted it to happen, so that his genocidal, trial and protest stopping pogroms could begin.
Not defending any nationality or religion here but you sound like an unhinged baby full of Vile comments against Jews. All Jews? I mean I know some who are agnostics, non practicing, nonbelievers. You just pretty much killed your point by being the persons you are bashing.
Agree completely. Maher mind I warped. When he started getting mad at his audience when he mis-told a joke, when he started getting mad at his audience when his jokes arenāt funny, is when I couldnāt watch anymore. What kind of person tells a joke, then no one laughs and people donāt react the way he imagined them reacting, so they get mad at the audience for not āgettingā the joke. I thought if you were a decent comedian then you would be able to fashion your material in a way that your intended audience would understand it. If they donāt react how you want them to react, then you have failed as a comedian to take account of your own shortcomings.
I used to love this guy, I never thought he was particularly funny, but I subscribed to his us vs them attitude. But that's just it innit? He's dividing the US into different strata, providing us a dumbed-down dualistic worldview. His opinions aren't informative or understanding, and don't teach us anything new. He aims to pit us against each other, focusing on infighting rather than working towards something good & positive. The ratings are an indication of this, his team just aren't putting out the good stuff anymore.
Good if you want to slag off at other groups of people, but bad if you want to develop a more empathetic worldview.
Q. what is better .... knowledge or imagination? Maher delivers a dose of both. It is much much better than the news shows that simplify present two bald men fighting over a comb.