The BEST episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher season 11
Every episode of Real Time with Bill Maher season 11, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher season 11!
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
#1 - June 21, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/21/2013
Interviewee: Haifaa al-Mansour (first female Saudi filmmaker) Panelists: Joshua Green (Bloomberg Businessweek journalist), Julia Reed (author of "But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!") & Bob Herbert (Ex New York Times op-eder & Demos Fellow) Panel Guest: Michael Pollan (author of "Cooked") Topics: Exodus International apologizes and closes its doors, 2013 IRS scandal, immigration, masturbating fetuses, food, Paula Deen, death of Michael Hastings, mainstream atheism
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#2 - February 15, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2013
Interviewee: Robert Zimmerman (brother of George Zimmerman) Panelists: Jamie Weinstein (editor), Donna Brazile (Democratic strategist) & Jon Meacham (author) Panel Guest: Joel McHale (actor on "Community") Topics: Is democracy working?, the Republican Party, Reality television, hypocrisy of the Catholic Church's wealth, gun control, future of the Catholic Church.
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#3 - October 11, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/11/2013
Interviewee: Maya Wiley (Center for Social Inclusion president) Panelists: Jim Glassman (ex George W. Bush Institute director), Carol Roth (author of "The Entrepreneurial Equation"), Chris Matthews (MSNBC host & author of "Tip and the Gipper") Panel Guest: Oliver Stone (Oscar-winning filmmaker) Topics: Republicans' strategy backfiring, solving America's debt, America's role in the world, Republicans' debt denial, politicians with extreme religious beliefs
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#4 - September 13, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/13/2013
Interviewee: Dr. Edwin Lyman (UCS senior scientist) Panelists: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone journalist), Michael Steele (ex GOP Chairman), Zanny Minton-Beddoes (Economist editor) Panel Guest: Bill Nye ("Bill Nye the Science Guy") Topics: America's response to Syria, Republicans consistently distancing themselves from Obama, America's love of guns, politicization of science, is the economy safer now than before the 2007 crash?, US income inequality, college tuition and student loans, US tradition of bombing Muslim countries.
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#5 - June 7, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/7/2013
Interviewee: George Packer (author of "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America") Panelists: Kevin Williamson (author of "The End is Near"), Ana Navarro (GOP strategist) & Dana Gould (comedian) Panel Guest: Tom Shadyac (Filmmaker & author) Topics: 4th Amendment infringements (phone taps & DNA), immigration reform, happiness, Republicans vs. female breadwinners, Susan Rice, Reagan as proto-Republican
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#6 - November 1, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/1/2013
Interviewee: Ann Coulter (author) Panelists: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Rep. D-FL), Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist), Rob Reiner (filmmaker) Panel Guest: Rob Lowe (actor, "Killing Kennedy") Topics: Obama's lie about current health care plans, Ted Cruz, Sr., women in politics, Rob Lowe as JFK, US embargo against Cuba, Kessler Syndrome, NSA spying, Republicans should appeal to stoners.
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#7 - November 8, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/8/2013
Interviewee: Billy Binney (NSA whistleblower) Panelists: John Heilemann ("Double Down" co-author), Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (University of Texas fellow), David Avella (GOPAC President) Panel Guest: Anthony Weiner (Ex-Rep. D-NY) Topics: NSA spying, 2013 elections, Chris Christie as a 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Republican constituents, Tea Party vs. GOP establishment, Anthony Weiner scandal and media coverage of the scandal, Obamacare, Bill de Blasio's victory, commemorating tragedies, self-importance of political authors, hypocrisy of the religious right.
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#8 - April 5, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/5/2013
Interviewee: Sebastian Junger (war correspondent & "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here?" director) Panelists: Abby Huntsman, Stephen Moore, Bernie Sanders Panel Guest: Zack Kopplin (science education activist) Topics: Social Security chained to CPI, the economy and the middle class, the Keystone Pipeline and energy, Mark Sanford, science education and climate change, science funding, marriage equality, Libertarianism.
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#9 - April 26, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/2013
Interviewee: Don Borelli (former FBI special agent & COO of The Soufan Group) Panelists: John Avlon (senoir columnist for Daily Beast), Robert Traynham (dean of Georgtown School of Continuing Studies), Anna Deavere Smith (playwright & actress from "Nurse Jackie") Panel Guest: Jimmy Kimmel (late night talkshow host) Topics: Fallout from the sequester, George W. Bush's presidential library, government regulations, number of terrorism deaths in context, looming war with Syria, U.S. a police state?, does solitary confinement violate the 8th Amendment?, why is redemption easier for Republicans?
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#10 - April 12, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/2013
Interviewee: Peter Byck (Arizona State professor) Panelists: David Stockman (former Ronald Regan budget director), Bob Costas (sports caster) & Stephanie Cutter (former campain manager for O'bama's reelection) Panel Guest: Saru Jayaraman (Restaurant Opportunities Center co-founder) Topics: Gun control, official religion for America?, role of government funding, homosexuality in sports, plight of restaurant workers, how to help the working class, US policy on Cuba, crony capitalism, North Korea and the military-industrial complex.
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#11 - May 3, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/3/2013
Interviewee: Jeremy Scahill (journalist & author of"Dirty Wars") Panelists: Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC host of "The Last Word"), Mattie Duppler (director of group Americans for Tax Reform), & Pete Hegseth (CEO of Concerned Veterans for America) Panel Guest: Marc Maron (host of WTF podcast) Topics: The economy, tax reform, Gitmo, drug reform, moral development of teenagers, will an insurrection to protect the 2nd Amendment ever be necessary?, should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant?
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#12 - September 20, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/20/2013
Interviewee: Billy Crystal Panelists: Chris Hayes (host of MSNBC's "All In"), Joy Behar (comic & ex-host of "The View"), David Frum (CNN contributor) Panel Guest: Jeremy Seifert (director of documentary "GMO OMG") Topics: Tea Party holding debt ceiling hostage, ObamaCare, GMOs & Monsanto, Pope Francis, gun control, widespread online hate, hopeless poor people.
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#13 - May 10, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/10/2013
Interviewee: Mark Bittman (NYT Food & Opinion journalist) Panelists: Glenn Greenwald (Guardian columnist), Joy Reid (MSNBC analyst) & Charles C.W. Cooke (National Review journalist) Panel Guest: Zachary Quinto (actor from "Star Trek: Into Darkness") Topics: Politics of the Cleveland kidnapping case, What is the scandal in Benghazi?, theocracies as dictatorships, gay acceptance, printing 3-D guns, sexual assault in the military, the wealth gap.
#14 - November 15, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/15/2013
Interviewee: Radley Balko ("Warrior Cop" author) Panelists: Ezra Klein (Washington Post columnist), Mattie Duppler (Americans for Tax Reform), Reihan Salam (National Review Online blogger) Panel Guest: Casey Affleck ("Out of the Furnace", actor) Topics: Problems for Obama & Democrats, botched 60 Minutes Benghazi report, troubled US veterans, cuts to food stamps, Typhoon Haiyan tied to climate change, harmful right-wing Supreme Court decisions
#15 - March 8, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/8/2013
Interviewee: Charlies LeDuff (journalist) Panelists: Avik Roy (health care expert), Michael Steele (ex RNC chair) & Arianna Huffington (editor) Panel Guest: David Cross (actor comedian) Topics: the Dow vs. the economy, Obama's dinner with Republicans, media panics over sinkholes, American culture, women in the workplace, why does everything in America have to be political?
#16 - May 31, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/31/2013
Interviewee: Michael Isikoff (investigative journalist for NBC News) Panelists: James Poulos (producer of "HuffPost Live" and writer for "Vice"), Neera Tanden (from the Center for American Progress) & Paul Rudnick (screenwriter and humorist) Panel Guest: Brit Marling (Actress and screenwriter) Topics: Obama and the War on Terror, John McCain and Syria, health care, freeganism, Pope Francis and atheism, Bush's hypocrisy with the Wounded Warriors, marijuana as the new gay marriage.
#17 - May 17, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/17/2013
Interviewee: Richard Haass (author of "Foreign Policy Begins at Home") Panelists: Andrew Ross Sorkin (NYT Finance columnist), S. E. Cupp (co-host of "The Cycle") & Michael Moore (director) Panel Guest: Zach Galifianakis (actor & comedian from "The Hangover Part III") Topics: 2013 IRS scandal, CIA-AP scandal, the recent deficit reduction, food, organization of left vs. right political groups, gun control, Benghazi
#18 - November 22, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/22/2013
Interviewee: Dan Savage ("Savage Love" columnist) Panelists: Paul Begala (CNN analyst), Katty Kay (BBC America anchor), Bob Ehrlich (Ex-Gov. R-MD) Panel Guest: Wendell Pierce ("Treme", actor) Topics: The 'Nuclear Option', conspiracy theories, ending the War in Afghanistan, contributions of New Orleans culture, bringing food to the inner city, businesses open on Thanksgiving, Trey Radel and drugs, Red states not accepting federal money for Medicaid, JFK vs. Ronald Reagan.
#19 - June 14, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/14/2013
Interviewee: Patrick Kennedy (Ex U.S. Rep. D-RI) Panelists: Niall Ferguson ("Great Degeneration" author & Harvard professor), Jonathan Alter ("The Center Holds" author), Kellyanne Conway (conservative pollster) Panel Guest: Josh Fox ("Gasland Part II" director) Topics: America's involvement in Syria, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, fracking, Democrats' problems with white voters, career congressmen.
#20 - September 27, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/27/2013
Interviewee: Tim Robbins (founding Artistic Director of The Actors' Gang) Panelists: Robert Reich (ex U.S. Secretary of Labor), Monica Mehta (financial expert), Matt Welch (editor-in-chief for Reason Magazine) Panel Guest: Carl Hart (Professor & "High Times" author) Topics: Republicans threatening to defund the government, Ted Cruz, drug behavior in America, income inequality, California as a successful anti-Tea Party paradise.
#21 - July 19, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/19/2013
Interviewee: John Hargrove (ex Seaworld trainer) Panelists: Connie Mack IV, Grover Norquist & Rula Jebreal Panel Guest: Dan Savage ("Savage Love" columnist) Topics: Obama's speech about Trayvon Martin, Pope Francis offering indulgences for following him on Twitter, LGBT rights, Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner, Congress voted for 38th time to repeal Obamacare, IRS non-scandal
#22 - March 15, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/2013
Interviewee: Michelle Rhee (education reformer) Panelists: Jared Bernstein (economist), Tom Davis (ex Rep. R-VA) & Rachel Maddow (MSNBC host) Panel Guest: Tom Colicchio (chef) Topics: Budget plans, fallout from the Iraq War, hunger in America, NYC soda ban, Republican empathy, the extremely vocal conservative minority.
#23 - April 19, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/19/2013
Interviewee: Brian Levin (director of Center for Study of Hate & Extremism) Panelists: Salman Rushdie ("Midnight's Children" author), Amy Holmes ("Real News" anchor) & Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) Panel Guest: Colin Goddard (gun safety advocate) Topics: Reactions to the Boston Marathon Bombings, NRA's power over lawmakers, rewriting the Constitution, women's rights.
#24 - February 8, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2013
Interviewee: Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder) Panelists: Lawrence Krauss (theoretical physicist), Martin Bashir (news anchor) & Josh Barro (journalist) Panel Guest: Tina Brown (editor of Newsweek & The Daily Beast) Topics: US drone policy, exhumation of Richard III, supply-side economics, Obama catering to conspiracy theorists, Malala Yousafzai and Muslim women, near death experiences, Super Bowl XLVII blackout and US infrastructure, Chris Christie's health, Donald Trump suing Bill Maher.
#25 - October 25, 2013
Season 11 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/25/2013
Interviewee: Maajid Nawaz (ex Islamic radical) Panelists: Rev. Al Sharpton (MSNBC host & author of "Rejected Stone"), Michael Moore (filmmaker), Valerie Plame (co-author of "Blowback") Panel Guest: Richard Dawkins (author of "Appetite for Wonder") Topics: Obamacare's dysfunctional website, perceived strengths of each party, NSA spying on other countries, new evolution finding, Pope Francis, is Islam more dangerous than Christianity?, the minimum wage.