Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 11/19/21 - (Season Finale)

[Rhiannon12866]

Monologue: Shake It Off

Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and Taylor Swift's latest breakup song.




Vigilante Injustice

NYC Maylor-Elect Eric Adams and former NJ Gov. Chris Christie join Bill to discuss the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.




Future Headlines

Bill reports all the news that is sure to break during Real Time's winter recess. He'll be back with new episodes starting January 21, 2022!




New Rule: Bill Maher the Messaging Czar

Bill dons his "Coach" hat and attempts to guide the Democrats away from a devastating loss in the upcoming midterm elections.




Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with Fareed Zakaria (4:14), entire panel discussion with Chris Christie and Eric Adams (14:36), and includes the opening part of New Rules (42:19). It won't last long, as usual:

[LoveMyCali]

1. Thanks Rhiannon

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thanks to you, my friend!

It was a good show tonight, even the panel thanks to Eric Adams. But this is the last show of Bill's "season," both he and John Oliver go on hiatus every year at this time. Guess it gives Bill more time for his comedy tour...

Speaking of which, I really wish I could remember more Al Franken jokes. I can only think of two and I'm not telling the Willie Nelson one to anybody...

[LoveMyCali]

3. You remember one more than I do

so I've had no choice but to tell the Willie Nelson joke

[Rhiannon12866]

4. There was one that I thought was really funny and I thought "I need to remember that!"

But then he kept on talking and it completely went out of my head...

[Lemon Lyman]

5. :-)

Set-up of joke starts at the 7:45 mark:

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Awww, thanks so much!

My friend and I saw Al Franken's current comedy show 2 weeks ago tonight - and he's still got it, he was very funny - plus now he's got stories and jokes about his colleagues (Ted Cruz) and time in the Senate - and the sold out audience gave him a standing ovation!

[Lemon Lyman]

7. Sweet!

That's sounds like a lot of fun! I'm glad you had such a good time

[WHITT]

8. OK

The criticism that the Dems are failing to properly "message" in regards to the BBB is really getting tiresome. This is a trap by the MSM.

Imagine the Dems had started "selling" the BBB months ago. When Biden ends up signing the bill, the MSM will be asking, what happened to X and Y that you said would be in the bill? The MSM would portray it as making promises and not keeping them.

You can't start messaging or selling what's in a bill, until AFTER it passes both houses. The exception being the Speaker, who laid out what was in the bill that the House just passed, as she was only referencing the House version.

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Somebody needs to explain to Maher the historic assumption was the Dems would lose the gubernatorial elections in NJ & VA by fairly large margins, but instead the Dems OVERPERFORMED, winning in NJ and only losing VA by two points.

Him saying Carville was a great election strategist is quite true, the key word being WAS. He's now out-of-touch and hopelessly behind-the-curve.

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Franken is very funny, he was also one hell of a Senator as well.

[Auggie]

9. Maher is saying Dems are missing the "big picture" message AND the most important demographic

The panel discussion (BBB) and New Rules (Carville "Woke" ) are different—one is a very specific (selling the infrastructure bill) and the other very general (rebranding the Democratic party).

I agree with Maher 100%: the lack of effective messaging is killing us.

[FreepFryer]

10. "Maher attempts to guide the Democrats"

Maher is a joke and he talks out of his ass for a living. Nothing new, genuine or insightful here.