4/16/2010
Bill Maher does his best Barbara Walters impersonation on a 'Real Time: Special Edition'
Real Time with Bill Maher held a special edition of the political variety show that airs Friday nights on HBO. Instead of an opening monologue and panel, Maher interviewed comedian Chris Rock, Restauranteur Alice Waters and musician Billie Joe Armstrong individually. He did, however, throw in a...
4/4/2010
A "Tea Party" protest
Tea partiers received a shocking shout out from Bill Maher on the March 26 episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher when he thanked – that’s right, thanked – the Tea Party protesters for their role in the health care process.
Now, he thanked them for being so psychotically scary that the...
4/2/2010
Health care rocks the debate
Bill Maher’s one-hour HBO talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher continued its eighth season on March 19, and it was a doozy.
The news of the day – ok, the week, month and year – was the health reform bill making its way to a vote that weekend. During that entire time, the country has been at a...
3/20/2010
An episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get, as an esteemed fictional character with a mental disability once said.
While the guests on the March 5 episode completely dictated the discussion, and for the worse as I recall,...
3/7/2010
Did Chris Rock get a new show?
The monologue was tight, the interview was expert and the panel was… oh, who gives a you-know-what, Chris Rock is here! An impromptu appearance by the raunchy comedian about half-way through HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday interrupted a thoughtful debate on the state of health care...
2/26/2010
The best talk show in prime time returns with a flurry of laughs.
On his return to Friday nights with the eighth year of the HBO series, Real Time with Bill Maher, the outspoken host bore his weary head into the arms of his first guest, Elizabeth Warren, while sobbing, “I don’t have a question; I just want you to hold me.”
2/17/2010
"It's time, right?" Joe asks his ex-wife in this week's episode of Men of a Certain Age on TNT. An incident at his son Albert's school, which the principal suggests is rooted in the "upheaval" at home, gives Joe the push he needs to finally move out of the hotel where he's been living since his...
2/14/2010
The "men" must make tough life decisions on this week's episode
It all starts with a sigh. Owen’s two sons think their daddy is going to get diabetes and that his legs will fall off - they were told as much about people with diabetes at school. While this story builds on the overarching issue of Owen’s overeating and the underlying issues that cause it - this...
2/1/2010
Joe, Owen and Terry find out where love ends and family begins
The love that we give unconditionally is reserved for the few. This week, the guys of TNT’s Men of a Certain Age show just how unconditional their love can be, as the drama series returns to its regular formula with parallel storylines for Joe (Ray Romano), Owen (Andre Braugher) and Terry (Scott...
12/25/2009
Nelson Mandela's first year in office was a good year for the rugby team.
As trepid as the tension between whites and blacks continues to be with slavery and segregation’s dark chapter in American history closed, South Africa’s chapter of apartheid had just been sealed when Nelson Mandela became its first black president in 1994 with the wounds of segregation still...
