Real Time with Bill Maher (season 8)

This is a list of episodes from the eighth season of Real Time with Bill Maher.

Real Time with Bill Maher
Season 8
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	25
Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	February 19 – November 12, 2010
Season chronology

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Guests	Original air date
173	1	Elizabeth Warren, Wanda Sykes, Seth MacFarlane, Eliot Spitzer, Norah O'Donnell	February 19, 2010
Filibuster, Obama's handling of terrorism, torture, controversy over Family Guy's Down Syndrome episode, race and criticism of Obama, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Kevin Smith's airplane incident, obesity, media coverage of Haiti
174	2	Richard N. Haass, Chrystia Freeland, Reihan Salam, Olivia Wilde, Adam Carolla, Chris Rock	February 26, 2010
Iran, health care, Obama-Republicans summit, Congress majority, guns, defense budget, caged animals
175	3	Sean Penn, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore	March 5, 2010
Earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Hugo Chávez, Economic activism, Health Care, the economy regulation of the financial industry, labor relations, the Oscars, Republican fundraising tactics, mass media
176	4	Michael Bennet, Hill Harper, Gary Johnson, Amy Holmes, John Heilemann	March 12, 2010
Health care reform, national debt of the United States, cannabis legalization, race relations, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, resignation of Eric Massa, Game Change, Keep America Safe, education, Jihad Jane
177	5	Dennis Kucinich, Gavin Newsom, Stephen Moore, Melinda Henneberger, Emile Hirsch	March 19, 2010
Health care, the economy, regulation of banking and insurance industries, the Congo, blood diamonds, "blood minerals" from the Congo (tantalum, tungsten, and tin), Oxfam, access to clean water in developing countries, campaign finance reform
178	6	Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Capehart, Rob Thomas, Randi Weingarten, Jeff Garlin	March 26, 2010
Health care, Catholic sex abuse cases, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Tea Party movement, birthers, the National Debt, Education reform, Jesse James sex scandal, Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act, altering of textbooks by Texas State Board of Education, Intelligent design, Internet flames, celebrity political activism, Political correctness
179	7	Billie Joe Armstrong, Alice Waters, Chris Rock	April 9, 2010
Maher conducts one-on-one interviews
180	8	David Remnick, Simon Johnson, Laura Flanders, Jesse Ventura, Lawrence Bender	April 16, 2010
Tea Party movement, taxation, Goldman Sachs scandal, nuclear weapons, Supreme Court
181	9	Alan Grayson, Susan Eisenhower, Matthew Continetti, Richard A. Clarke, Jack Kevorkian	April 23, 2010
Arizona immigration law, racism in the United States, Army recruitment standards, technology, cyber war, South Park Muhammad controversy, moderate Republicans, Sarah Palin
182	10	Anthony Weiner, Chris Matthews, Laura Tyson, Ross Douthat, John R. Bolton	April 30, 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, oil dependency, high-speed rail technology, Goldman Sachs Senate hearings, Arizona immigration law, Charlie Crist, 2010 midterm elections
183	11	Sarah Silverman, Salman Rushdie, Alexis Glick, David Frum, Alan Brinkley	May 7, 2010
2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, Islam in the United States, immigration, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, climate change denial, big business
184	12	Sebastian Junger, Cory Booker, John Avlon, S. E. Cupp, Darrell Issa	May 14, 2010
Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination, religion, Minerals Management Service and oil drilling regulation, Miranda warning, tasering
185	13	Nouriel Roubini, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michael Eric Dyson, John Fund, Patton Oswalt	May 21, 2010
Libertarianism, Rand Paul, Robert Bork, oil spill containment, Richard Blumenthal, Anwar al-Awlaki
186	14	Philippe Cousteau, Jr., Jonathan Alter, Patrick Ruffini, Cornel West, Scott Turow	May 28, 2010
Oil spill, Obama's reaction to the spill, black/white net worth gap, Supreme Court
187	15	Paul Begala, Andrew Sullivan, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Van Jones, Judd Apatow	June 4, 2010
Oil spill, Gaza flotilla raid, Joe McGinniss, Al Gore, marriage and divorce, climate change denial
188	16	Queen Noor of Jordan, Rachel Maddow, Jon Meacham, Bill Frist, Oliver Stone	June 11, 2010
Oil spill, Republican filibustering, Dan Duncan and inheritance tax, "running government like a business", Nikki Haley, Military budget of the United States, Helen Thomas' Israel comments
189	17	Michael Moore, Robert Reich, Jon Hamm, Martha Raddatz, Mark McKinnon	September 17, 2010
The Tea Party movement, Newt Gingrich describing Obama as having a 'Kenyan world view', Islamophobia in America, Christine O'Donnell's appearance on Politically Incorrect, the Democratic Party's new logo, tax cuts, Afghanistan, Republicans threatening to repeal health care reform, Republicans as the 'party of no', moderate Republicans
190	18	Richard Tillman, Andrew Breitbart, Amy Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan	September 24, 2010
Pat Tillman, Pledge to America, healthcare repeal, Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, Christine O'Donnell, evolution, science, climate change, Obama's Wars
191	19	Bob Woodward, Joe Klein, Cornel West, Arianna Huffington, David Cross	October 1, 2010
Hamid Karzai, 2010 Elections, Carl Paladino, Meg Whitman, the economy, personal responsibility, Bishop Eddie Long, homophobia, social networking services
192	20	Richard Dawkins, Andrew Ross Sorkin, S. E. Cupp, P. J. O'Rourke, Joshua Green	October 8, 2010
Gene Cranick, zero-sum economic theory, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Christine O'Donnell, Rich Iott, climate change, religion
193	21	Al Sharpton, Markos Moulitsas, John Legend, Dana Loesch, Dan Neil	October 15, 2010
Bill O'Reilly, Tea Party movement, 2010 Craziest Candidate Countdown, electric cars, education in the United States, Brett Favre
194	22	George Clooney, Rob Reiner, Jake Tapper, Nicolle Wallace, Levi Johnston	October 22, 2010
Crisis in Sudan, Clarence Thomas & Anita Hill, Campaign financing, Christine O'Donnell's comment about 1st Amendment, Tea Party, 2010 elections, Sarah Palin, 'Don't ask, don't tell'
195	23	Jimmy Carter, Zach Galifianakis, Lawrence O'Donnell, Margaret Hoover, Reihan Salam	October 29, 2010
White House Diary, 2010 midterm elections, violence and the Tea Party, 2010 Craziest Candidate Countdown, Prop 19, separation of church and state
196	24	Bill O'Reilly, Darrell Issa, Fareed Zakaria, Dana Gould, Adrian Fenty	November 5, 2010
2010 midterm election results, Obama's response to election results, Republican plan, balancing the budget and cuts, social justice, education, military budget, prison population, cooperation of Republicans and Democrats
197	25	Mike Huckabee, Michael Moore, Nora Ephron, Jessica Yellin, Joe Sestak	November 12, 2010
Bush, Obama, midterm elections, Iraq, veterans, health care, deficit

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