Maher: Christie ‘Turned the Bridge Into the ObamaCare Website

January 18th, 2014 8:58 AM
Here’s something you don’t see every day: Bill Maher poking fun at Barack Obama. On his first Real Time show of the year, the HBO host said of the scandal currently embattling Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.), “They basically turned the bridge into the ObamaCare website” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

HBO Renews 'Real Time With Bill Maher' For 13th Season

January 15th, 2014 5:15 PM
It appears that no matter what disgusting things Bill Maher says about conservatives - especially conservative women! - HBO is going to continue to reward him. On Wednesday, the cable network announced that it was renewing Real Time with Bill Maher for a 13th season (press release via TV By The Numbers):

HBO’s ‘The Newsroom’ to End After Third Season

January 14th, 2014 4:25 PM
The Newsroom, HBO’s low-rated series about a fictional television news channel will end after its third season, the premium cable channel announced Monday. Besides struggling to get viewers, the Aaron Sorkin drama was widely criticized as being unrealistic and pompous. The show also was notable for its very liberal political slant and incredible lack of self-awareness about that slant.…

'Girls' Star Lena Dunham: People Who Don't Like Seeing Me Naked Need P

January 10th, 2014 4:06 PM
Lena Dunham, the actress who made herself infamous by comparing voting for Barack Obama to losing one's virginity, has come out with another brilliant statement: People who aren't really interested in seeing her naked need to seek help from a psychiatrist. Replying to a television critic who asked her at a press conference why her character in the HBO series Girls frequently appears naked for…

WashPost TV Critic Rooting For HBO's Lena Dunham 'To Literally Choke O

January 10th, 2014 9:15 AM
At first, Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever traveled with the critical mass on the trashy, ugly-sex-and-nudity show “Girls” on HBO, and its twentysomething creator, Lena Dunham (you know, the one who urged girls to pop their voting cherry with Obama). Just a month ago, Stuever found the show’s second season “left me feeling underserved.” But wow, has he decided he hates the show now. A…

Bozell Column: Sarah Silverman's Insult Act Gets Old

January 4th, 2014 8:14 AM
Sarah Silverman celebrated Christmas in her usual mode: mocking Christians, and religion in general. On Twitter, she wrote “Happy Birthday, Jesus! I'm sorry [you] were murdered by people afraid of new ideas!” Her last HBO special in 2002 was even mockingly titled “Jesus Is Magic.” Her new special was called “We Are Miracles.” Once again in the new show, she made fun of the death of Jesus, as…

Year-End Awards: The Barbra Streisand Award for Celebrity Vapidity

December 30th, 2013 9:16 AM
Since the left-wing nonsense coming out of Hollywood can be just as obnoxious as anything you’d find on MSNBC, the MRC’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2013” once again includes our annual Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity. Past winners of this prestigious prize include: actress Jessica Lange in 2002 (“I despise him [George W. Bush]. I despise his administration and…

Top HBO TV Producer David Simon Embraces Marx Diagnosis: 'My Country I

December 8th, 2013 6:35 PM
David Simon, the toast of Hollywood and the cultural elite for creating the inner-city Baltimore crime drama "The Wire" for HBO, unleashed a left-wing jeremiad on the "Two Americas" at a "Festival of Dangerous Ideas" in Sydney, Australia. He also shocked Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik for admitting people don't really watch his HBO stuff. As his show "Treme" ends on Sunday, he declared…

Catholic League Calls For Bill Maher To Be Fired

November 26th, 2013 5:09 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, HBO's Real Time this past Friday once again featured some truly disgusting attacks on the Pope, priests, and the Catholic Church. This has led the Catholic League to formally request HBO and Time Warner fire host Bill Maher and cancel the show. On Tuesday, after Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg played a clip of Maher and guest Dan Savage from Friday's program to…

Maher: ‘Reagan Was an Amiable Square in a Cowboy Hat Who Had Sex Wit

November 23rd, 2013 2:07 PM
“JFK was far from perfect, but he was a true wit and a sex machine and he knew how to wear a pair of shades. Reagan was an amiable square in a cowboy hat who had sex with a woman he called ‘Mommy.’” So said HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher Friday in a lengthy segment praising John F. Kennedy while trashing Ronald Reagan (video follows with commentary):

Maher: Sarah Palin at 16 Was ‘Probably Pregnant But Still in Third G

November 23rd, 2013 1:25 PM
You would think given all the heat MSNBC’s Martin Bashir is taking for his vile comments about Sarah Palin earlier this month, comedians might want to lay low for a while in attacking the former Alaska governor. Not HBO’s Bill Maher who on Real Time Friday said, “When Reagan was elected, Sarah Palin was barely 16, probably pregnant, but still in third grade” (video follows with transcript and…

Maher: ‘Wilt Chamberlain Had Sex With More People Than Signed Up For

November 16th, 2013 10:21 AM
Has Barack Obama lost Bill Maher? On HBO’s Real Time Friday, the Obama campaign donor’s opening monologue skewered the disastrous rollout of the President’s signature legislative accomplishment including a joke about Wilt Chamberlain having had sex with more people than enrolled at Healthcare.gov (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Maher: ‘There's Always a Good, Moral, Christian Reason to Tell Every

November 9th, 2013 2:22 PM
If it’s Friday, HBO’s Bill Maher must be attacking conservatives as well as people of faith. On the most recent installment of Real Time, the host did a lengthy segment accusing religious conservatives of being hypocrites saying, “There's always a good, moral, Christian reason to tell everyone you meet to f--k off and die” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Rob Reiner aka Meathead: 'Obama Is Right Around Where Reagan Was' Poli

November 2nd, 2013 4:00 PM
It really is hysterical listening to liberal Hollywoodans talk about politics. Take for example actor/director Rob Reiner - made famous by his role as Meathead in the legendary sitcom All in the Family - claiming on HBO's Real Time Friday ("Overtime" web segment) that Barack Obama politically "is right around where Reagan was" (video follows with transcript and commentary):