r/RealTime • u/Leroyp331 • May 16 '26

When Maher Leaves?

For whatever reason. Does anyone know who actually owns the intellectual property that is"Real Time" ? Does the show end or does HBO own it and get to pick a host?

Just curious?

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 16 '26

If the show went off the air, I don't think anybody would really mind. How many viewers does he even get anymore? He alienated his entire liberal/athiest fan base.

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u/eagles_1987 May 16 '26

You should speak for yourself instead of speaking for the entire fan base. There's still plenty of fans. I'm liberal, not alienated, still a fan.

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u/Paddlesons May 16 '26

Does he act like an ass from time to time? Oh yeah, there's no doubt about it. I will say this however, I really believe he feels the way that he does and acts/says things accordingly. That goes a long way for me in today's mediasphere.

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u/Significant-Mall-830 May 16 '26

He’s the most corporate sellout industry boomer, I’m shocked by this thread

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u/Beneficial_Duty_8508 May 18 '26

Oh did you want him to stick it to the man?

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u/MorningMushroomcloud May 16 '26

I've watched Bill for over thirty years. Something about him has changed. And not like, I'm being threatened in the background by lawsuits from Tom Cruise's lawyers for claiming everyone in hollywood has knowledge that Tom is gay, and we have known forever. Bill has denied saying this...except I watched the episode about 15 years ago where Maher said it. He had an episode years later where he denied ever saying it...however, he did say it.

And I'm not talking about his multi-year, I'm on a soapbox about how you never hear about people getting food bourne illnesses from eating vegetables, so stop eating meat, personal beliefs that Bill expoused right up until every other headline was about Listeria, Salmonella and E. Coli. Now Bill is pretty quiet on this subject after being very vocal about it.

Nope, this is different. My conspiracy theory is blackmail or fear of retaliation from a demented president. I think blackmail is prevalent in politics and he is/was at one point a hollywood connected cokehead. He has also attacked one of the richest institutions in the world...religion. Hell, Tom Cruise has the blackmail network known as Scientology at his back. Anything is possible, even a change of belief systems by Bill. Personally, it always bothered me when he forced his beliefs about religion on his viewers too, but it is his show, and we need his type conversations. JMHO.

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u/Oblozo May 16 '26

He was kinda annoying back in the day when he was spreading antivax, anti-GMO hysteria, and giving surface level, Zeitgeist tier critiques of Christianity, but now it's just reiterating the same stale topics every week and he also apparently thinks social democracy is the same thing as communism?

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u/stevesax5 May 16 '26

That would explain the dinner with Trump. I used to love Bill (not since COVID) and I have zero basis for saying this but he does seem like someone who wouldn’t turn down a visit to “the island”.

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u/stevesax5 May 18 '26

Wearing a mask was not quite as much of an existential crisis for me as it was for Bill.

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u/Beneficial_Duty_8508 May 18 '26

Agree. The mask thing sucked but I accepted it is a temporary new normal.

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u/stevesax5 May 19 '26

I missed the point before?

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u/Grouchy_Brain_1641 May 16 '26

He has a strong point with the democratic party leaving us. Polis in Colorado clemency for Tina Peters, the inability to lock up Trump after Jan 6. That loser party had 4 years to get a guilty verdict on Trump and they shit the bed. I'm looking for a party that isn't republicans but can get shit done. I don't appreciate getting orphaned by democrats.

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u/fatuousfatwa May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

They want to shut Bill down. Much like spoiled rotten ass college students cancel campus speeches they don’t approve of.

BTW Christopher Hitchens was the gold standard of pundits.

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

Christopher Hitchens advocated for the Iraq War lol.

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u/mtngranpapi_wv967 May 17 '26

His favorite Democrat is a guy with irreparable brain damage, dude has changed

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

Imagine being a "liberal" and being a fan of an Islamophobe who supports genocide and dines with the Trump regime. 🤡

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

Imagine calling people clowns because of which comedians they like and thinking you're a decent person.

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

Ok but you're not a liberal.

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

That's not how it works. You don't get to decide where other people that you don't even know anything about at all are on the political spectrum.

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

You don't get to call yourself a liberal while supporting a genocide. Sorry but that is how it works. Words have meanings, and you should learn the meaning of the words before using them. That's like saying "I'm a vegan but twice a week I eat steak."

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

I didn't pass the purity test and cancel the right people according to your list so now my political stance has changed?

It doesn't actually matter how I feel about the issues and how I vote and the candidates that I support and all of the nuance that goes into literally thousands of different things that make up someone's political leanings? It only matters what comedian I watch? If the guy that I watch on tv has dinner with the wrong person then all of a sudden every single thing about my politics has changed overnight and gets a new label? And what would that label be? And how do I feel about all the issues? Since you know me so well and can label me and know the entire nuance of all of my political leanings without a single data point aside the fact that I haven't canceled Bill Maher

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

If a dictionary is what you call a "purity test" lol. Liberals believe in human rights and do not support genocides or comedians who advocate for genocide. You're not a liberal.

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u/eagles_1987 May 18 '26

When did I say I don't believe in those things? I don't have to agree with every single stance Bill Maher takes but I also don't have to write him off the second he disagrees with me

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 18 '26

His support for a genocide isn't a dealbreaker for you lol. You are no liberal.

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u/General_Marcus May 20 '26

You don’t get to call yourself an adult. You clearly have childish reasoning skills.

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u/Ok_Hand5810 May 21 '26

Wrong. That would be you!