Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, June 12, 2026

[Rhiannon12866]

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

This week features a one-on-one interview with David Sedaris, contributor to The New Yorker, humorist, and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Land and Its People.

This week's in-studio panel discussion will include Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; and Hagar Chemali, former spokesperson of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (UN), co-founder of the Lebanon-Israel Peace Alliance, and host of the YouTube show Oh My World.

[True Dough]

1. Heard of 2 out of 3

Chemali is new to me. Will tune in. Thanks, Rhiannon! Congrats on 260,000 (and the extra 263 posts).

[ColoringFool]

2. NYT Article On Sedaris's NYC Apartment (s)

Inside Humorist David Sedaris’s Two Upper East Side Apartments - The New York Times https://share.google/XJZYoqC5ZeKRRnU9f

[Lovie777]

3. Nope..............

[peachpit24]

4. Tv

Who watches Bill Meyer and why?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Who is Bill Meyer?

[maxsolomon]

13. I refuse to watch Bill Meyer

He's HORRIBLE

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Oh! That Bill Meyer!🤗

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Thanks for posting!

[Happy Hoosier]

7. It's a disgrace to promote this man on this platform.

He does not align with our values and routinely denigrates Democrats.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Alert on the post! Perhaps a jury will agree with you!

[maxsolomon]

15. He does and he doesn't.

He aligns with some of my values and not others. I denigrate Democrats sometimes, too (but never on DU!). If I watch his show now, I usually end up yelling back at him.

If you don't want to see Maher "promoted", just block Rhiannon12866. Its the only time he really gets discussed, and most of the comments are "Fuck Bill Maher".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. My thoughts exactly!

[themaguffin]

19. A disgrace

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[gulliver]

31. I've been a Dem voter for over 46 years

I say Bill Maher does align with our values. I await anyone with higher seniority and a citation or two to the Dem platform to dispute it.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Fuck Bill Maher

[hookaleft]

11. yeah fuck him!!

[question everything]

9. Sedaris was earlier, bizarre.. Panel should be interesting. If given enough time

Thanks for posting.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Imagine spending actual time watching that.

Probably a bit of Fox News spillover audience.

[question everything]

16. Why are so many obsessed about Maher and about the viewing habits of other DUers?

Don't you have other ideas to think about it? How about reading a book? Walking outside, visiting friends?

[BannonsLiver]

18. There there.

[Abolishinist]

21. It's unfortunate, but my experience is that it's impossible to

have an honest one-on-one conversation with a member of the 'FBM' club.

They take advantage of the DU rules, and alert on anyone who allegedly "attacks" them - i.e., asking them a question. At the same time, they are attacking a group of DU'ers who happen to watch a particular TV show.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Stop me if you've heard this:

MDS

[themaguffin]

28. yeah, clutch those pearls

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[BannonsLiver]

29. I'll leave that to you and MAGA Bill.

[themaguffin]

30. riiiiight

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Bless your heart kid.

Oof.

[Abolishinist]

17. We'll be watching!

I’m really looking forward to David Sedaris. We saw him in person last month at a sold-out event, very entertaining. He said that although he never pushes his books, he's making an exception for his new one because JD apparently has one coming out this week and he wants to outsell him. He was on stage for around 90 minutes, then took questions from the audience, and stayed afterwards for a book signing. He was wearing a skirt, which he believes more men should do!

Ian Bremmerand Hagar Chemali could be interesting as well.

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

Thanks for posting!

[Rhiannon12866]

23. David Sedaris really was entertaining, my favorite guest on tonight's show

And thanks, I did wonder what he was wearing. And I was glad that he joined Overtime, I wish more of the initial guests would do that.

[Abolishinist]

25. I'm looking forward to Overtime, will

check it out tomorrow. So glad to learn he was a part of it!

[question everything]

20. kick

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 6/12/2026

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1322118251

[Abolishinist]

24. Wowzer!

The back and forth with David Sedaris was off the charts good, especially his story about the dog who bit him in Portland!

[Rhiannon12866]

26. As I said, he really was my favorite guest, both interesting and entertaining

I could have listened to his stories for the entire show...

[KT2000]

27. Chemali was there to protect

the billionaires, or her access to them, it seems. She had a lot of nothing to say and I thought she was going to smack Ian Bremmer in the face with her hands flying all over the place.