Real Time with Bill Maher (season 7)
This is a list of episodes from the seventh season of Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Season 7 | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 31 |
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Original network | HBO |
Original release | February 20 – October 16, 2009 |
Season chronology | |
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date | |
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142 | 1 | Chrystia Freeland, Tina Brown, Maxine Waters, Ron Paul, Brigitte Gabriel | February 20, 2009 | |
The economy, President Obama's first month in office | ||||
143 | 2 | Alan Cumming, P. J. O'Rourke, Gavin Newsom, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Wright | February 27, 2009 | |
Obama's speech, Bobby Jindal, marijuana, home ownership, Iraq, Afghanistan and troops, future of the Rep. party, Vatican and indulgences | ||||
144 | 3 | T. Boone Pickens, Cory Booker, Erin Burnett, Peter Singer | March 6, 2009 | |
The economy, sustainable energy, charity and philanthropy, socialism | ||||
145 | 4 | Sarah Silverman, Michael Eric Dyson, Andrew Breitbart, Steven Pearlstein | March 13, 2009 | |
State of the Republican party, racism in America, the Teachers' Union, stem cell research | ||||
146 | 5 | Madeleine Albright, Keith Olbermann, Kerry Washington, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Ross Sorkin | March 20, 2009 | |
AIG bonuses, the crisis, Teenage pregnancy in America, Glenn Beck, right-wing power | ||||
147 | 6 | Bill Bradley, Christopher Hitchens, Mos Def, Salman Rushdie | March 27, 2009 | |
Banking crisis, legality of cannabis, Nuclear proliferation | ||||
148 | 7 | Joe the Plumber, David Frum, Carol Leifer, Reihan Salam, Sam Donaldson | April 3, 2009 | |
2009 G-20 London summit, tax cut, health care, Carbon tax, Nuclear power | ||||
149 | 8 | Ron Howard, Gore Vidal | April 10, 2009 | |
Maher conducts one-on-one interviews | ||||
150 | 9 | Howard Dean, Dana Gould, Randy Cohen, Bethany McLean, Robert Baer | April 24, 2009 | |
Obama's first 100 days, Torture Memos, economy, gun control, environment and global warming, children's health | ||||
151 | 10 | Barney Frank, Fareed Zakaria, Richard Engel, David Aaron Kessler | May 1, 2009 | |
2009 flu pandemic, state of the Republican Party, terrorism, David Souter's resignation, Arlen Specter's party switch, Israel | ||||
152 | 11 | James Carville, Seth Green, Naomi Klein, Matt Taibbi, Reza Aslan | May 8, 2009 | |
Tax evasion by big companies, torture, Pakistan & Taliban, US military handing out bibles, gay marriage | ||||
153 | 12 | David Simon, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Holmes, Richard Brookhiser, Dan Savage | May 15, 2009 | |
Torture, climate change, gay marriage, War on Drugs | ||||
154 | 13 | Muhammad Yunus, Jon Meacham, Simon Johnson, M.I.A. | May 22, 2009 | |
Global economic crisis, the progress of the Obama administration, Dick Cheney, religion in the United States | ||||
155 | 14 | Hill Harper, John R. Bolton, Heather Wilson, Michael Pollan | May 29, 2009 | |
State of the Republican Party, torture and Guantánamo Bay, North Korea's nuclear weapons threat, nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, and California Supreme Court's decision regarding California's Proposition 8 | ||||
156 | 15 | D. L. Hughley, Richard N. Haass, Paula Froelich, Jeremy Scahill, Matthew Miller | June 5, 2009 | |
Obama's visit to the Middle East, terrorism, abortion debate and the murder of Dr. George Tiller, gay marriage, health care reform in the United States | ||||
157 | 16 | Larry King, Chris Matthews, Frances Townsend, Benjamin Jealous, P. J. O'Rourke | June 12, 2009 | |
2009 digital television transition, Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting, racism, affirmative action, nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, terrorism, car culture in the United States, socialism | ||||
158 | 17 | Paul Begala, Katty Kay, Meghan McCain, Joel Stein, Hooman Majd | June 19, 2009 | |
Iranian presidential election, 2009, health care reform, David Letterman joke controversy, sexuality and infidelity in politics, 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea | ||||
159 | 18 | Cameron Diaz, Oliver Stone, Billy Bob Thornton | June 26, 2009 | |
Maher conducts one-on-one interviews | ||||
160 | 19 | Joe Scarborough, Markos Moulitsas, Anna Deavere Smith, Brian Schweitzer, Jason Alexander | July 17, 2009 | |
Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, racism and the Republican Party, clean coal electricity debate, health care reform in the United States, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, death of Michael Jackson, drug use in the United States, death of Walter Cronkite, 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing | ||||
161 | 20 | Janet Napolitano, Anthony Woods, Susan Eisenhower, John Heilemann, Matt Taibbi | July 24, 2009 | |
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, racism and the Republican Party, Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, health care reform, military–industrial complex | ||||
162 | 21 | Jeff Sharlet, Michael Ware, Rachel Maddow, Niall Ferguson, Joe Queenan | July 31, 2009 | |
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, health care reform, current economic crisis, resignation of Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska | ||||
163 | 22 | Arianna Huffington, Jack Kingston, Darrell Issa, David Scheiner | August 7, 2009 | |
Health care, town hall mobs, Sarah Palin's 'death panel' comments, confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor, prescription drugs, children's health, bailouts, criticism of Bill Clinton's role in freeing American journalists | ||||
164 | 23 | Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Zinni, Ross Douthat, Dana Gould, Brad Pitt | August 14, 2009 | |
'Death panel' claims, healthcare, income inequality, the current state of the Republican party, John O. Brennan 'ending' the war on terror, town hall discussions, mobs comparing Obama with Hitler, climate change | ||||
165 | 24 | Jay Leno, Chuck Todd, Jan Schakowsky, Sam Harris, Jeremy Scahill | August 21, 2009 | |
Health care reform, protesters bringing guns to town halls, controversy over private military contractors like Blackwater, politicization of the terror alert level system in the 2004 presidential election, lack of employers offering vacation and sick leave pays | ||||
166 | 25 | Jay-Z, Bill Moyers | August 28, 2009 | |
Maher conducts one-on-one interviews | ||||
167 | 26 | Anthony Weiner, Kathy Griffin, Paul Rieckhoff, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Richard A. Clarke | September 11, 2009 | |
Healthcare reform, eighth anniversary of 9/11, response to terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, race and criticism of Barack Obama, the media, global warming skepticism | ||||
168 | 27 | David Cross, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jeffrey Toobin, Matthew Continetti, Wendell Potter | September 18, 2009 | |
Health care reform, racism | ||||
169 | 28 | Michael Moore, Eliot Spitzer, Paul Krugman, John Waters | September 25, 2009 | |
Capitalism, the economy, the housing market, gay marriage, marijuana reform, terrorism | ||||
170 | 29 | Thomas Friedman, Lisa P. Jackson, Janeane Garofalo, Marcy Kaptur, Richard Dawkins | October 2, 2009 | |
Criticism of Barack Obama, health care reform, the senate, Iran's nuclear capabilities, religion in America, terrorism, Hollywood defending Roman Polanski | ||||
171 | 30 | Bill Frist, Richard Belzer, Cornel West, Lincoln Chafee, Sarah Silverman | October 9, 2009 | |
Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Iran, peace, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, the economy and the job market, income inequality | ||||
172 | 31 | Alan Grayson, Alec Baldwin, Garry Shandling, Chris Matthews, Martin O'Malley | October 16, 2009 | |
Balloon boy hoax, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, health care reform, H1N1 vaccination concerns, ongoing efforts to repeal Don't ask, don't tell, sexual harassment in the military, Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to buy the St. Louis Rams, steroid use in professional sports |
Home release
This season is available for digital purchase on iTunes[1] and Amazon Video.[2]
References
External links
- Real Time with Bill Maher Free (audio-only) episodes & Overtime podcast direct from HBO
- HBO.com Episode List
- TV.com Episode Guide
- Real Time with Bill Maher – list of episodes at IMDb
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