Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 1/23/2026 (Season Premiere)

[Rhiannon12866]

I apologize that there are so few "official" videos available, this practice by HBO appears to have started last season. If any are uploaded in the meantime, I'll definitely add them. But I wanted to share what's available before the "bootleg" videos are gone.



Bill Maher Predicts Backlash to Minnesota ICE Raids

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and CNN's Kasie Hunt join Bill to discuss the federal immigration crackdown.





New Rule: Blind Trust

If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, here’s one: get out of your media bubble and find the truth.





Overtime with Bill Maher: Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, Kasie Hunt, Sen. John Kennedy

Bill and his guests – Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, ‪Kasie Hunt‬ and Senator John Kennedy‬ continue their conversation after the show.





Here's a "bootleg" version of the show which includes the entire interview with retired U.S. Army general and senior advisor for VoteVets and the Vet Voice Foundation, Major General Paul Eaton; entire panel discussion with Kasie Hunt, anchor of CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt; and Sen. John Kennedy, Republican senator from Louisiana and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book How to Test Negative For Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will; Bill's "Funny Bit"; and the opening part of New Rules. It won't last long, as usual:

[rampartd]

1. kennedy should stop the legislating' and take up full time stand up

but if he gets the mark twain prize will certainly have to give it to the boss.

my senator. i need to read his book if only for opposition research.

"eskimo cousins " sexual? incestual? anti indigenous??

"eskimo kisses" is a saying, like maybe "rubbing noses" but "kissing cousins"??? maybe he is mixing metaphors

are the greenlanders technically eskimos? aleuts , but i can't swear to know the difference

"unleashed spirits that he could not control" is another weird turn of phrase. maybe backwoods fundamentalist?
kennedy used that one twice.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. He's an Oxford educated scholar and previously ran as a Democrat - what happened to him??