Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, February 6, 2026

[Rhiannon12866]

Real Time with Bill Maher continues its 24th season Friday, February 6th (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/7:00-8:00 p.m. PT), with a replay at 12:03 a.m., exclusively on HBO.

This week features a one-on-one interview with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer and songwriter John Mellencamp, whose 19-date tour Dancing Words – The Greatest Hits begins this summer..

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Chris Christie, former Republican governor of New Jersey and ABC News contributor; and Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, and current economic advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

[samplegirl]

1. I can't even turn him on

any longer.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Fuck Bill Maher

[CTyankee]

3. Hubby likes to watch Maher so I sometimes watch when he has a guest I want to see.

Why get upset? He's just another big mouth. So what, if he has a guest you'd like to hear from. I figure I might learn something I didn't know. I like to get info from a lot of sources.

and SURPRISE! I don't know everything...

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[Jbraybarten]

5. fuck maher

[Abolishinist]

6. We'll be watching!

I'm interested in watching John Mellencamp. He's one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land.

Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 39 years, and as of 2024 the organization has raised nearly $80 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.

Along with Mellencamp, this year's festival includes Neil Young (my absolute all-time fave!), Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Margo Price and more.

Chris Christie and Chrystia Freeland should be good as well.

And of course, the opening and New Rules are always fun.

Thanks for posting!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Thanks so much for the background on John Mellencamp, I had no idea!

And I do remember learning about Farm Aid ages ago when there was a network special on TV - they sent me a photo of Willie Nelson, of course.

Sounds like a particularly interesting show, I'm looking forward to hearing from Chrystia Freeland as well!

[question everything]

7. Interesting group. Thanks for posting, again.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Thanks!

And I sure agree, a pretty varied group - but also pretty interesting. And they'll sure have a lot to talk about tonight!

[Beaverhausen]

10. Is Maher named in the Epstein files?

I wouldn't be surprised if he is.

[UTUSN]

11. I'd be surprised, not for any of his "moral" reasons but because he's a weird duck.

For example, he's seemed very uncomfortable with the few Black/minority women he's hosted while supposedly liking girlfriends, besides other minorities - viz, Leslie JONES and Margaret CHO, him very uncomfortable with them.

*** Check out them and other fully realized guest women - Jane FONDA and, yes, Kris JENNER - who magnificently smoothly didn't take his b.s.

[SocialDemocrat61]

12. Please, it's not like he has a history of associating with sexual predators