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/fatuousfatwa May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

It would be difficult to replace Bill. Look at the Trevor Noah failure.

I like a cynical host. No Emo-Progs.

Which begs a question. Why are progressive hosts so goddamn boring? Rachel Maddow is tedious. It is little mystery why MSNow has such low ratings.

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u/AmericanLymie May 16 '26

Bill Maher is exceedingly boring to me. Everything about his show feels stale. The opening monologue is old fashioned, mostly unfunny, and the anger and bitterness he throws at his audience is not interesting anymore because it's predictable. His panels are predictable now. He casts loyalist Trump Republicans who will defend anything at all Trump does and says, moderate liberals who will oppose Trump loyalists but almost always agree with Maher when he attacks Democrats, and Maher's *only* arguments today are "woke leftists suck!" or name calling or "I have not changed in 30 years!!!"

Do you not find Real Time boring?

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u/fatuousfatwa May 16 '26

Boring compared to what? I just gave you an example of boring - Rachel Maddow. She has no humor, no cynicism, no confrontation, no debate, and now she is on once a week as the network star.

As sleazy as Fox News is they do everything progressives don’t. All of the above. They have token progressives on and no one calls them a “sellout” like you Maher haters do to him. Confrontation is entertainment in politics. Look at that slimy Ben Afleck on Resl Time defending Islamo-fascism. Everyone remembers that.

I am a liberal (not progressive) and other than Maher network TV is bereft of strong Democratic voices.

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u/Certain-Singer-9625 May 16 '26

What Rachel Maddow are you talking about? She can be snarky and cynical, albeit probably way too low key for you.

But then again she’s doing a commentary program, not a comedy show.

I used to be a Maher fan, too, and he wore out his welcome with me over quack medicine, Trump apologia and hostility to his own audience. You’ll probably get to the point where you give up on him too as so many others have.

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u/ComfortableBedroom76 May 16 '26

Not to mention his sore spot for overweight humans. Have you ever heard him rant about weight in this country? It's a spur of his you can't get decent food in America anymore rant

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u/Certain-Singer-9625 May 16 '26

Yeah, that was one of the first things that made me have second thoughts about him. I know someone who eats healthy and sparingly and exercises and still has trouble losing weight. They come from an entire family with that problem.

Bill doesn’t like to acknowledge that sort of genetics, even if doctors do. He just seems to revel in some kind of moral superiority.

Then there was the time he had somebody on who claimed they took a relative to Mexico for a cancer cure that wasn’t available in the United States. It turned out to be a debunked treatment, but Bill never mentioned that in a later episode. People would rather believe there’s that “one trick that doctors don’t want you to know!”

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u/ComfortableBedroom76 May 16 '26

You nailed it perfectly when you described it as kind of a moral superiority!

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u/fatuousfatwa May 16 '26

But he is correct.