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The Best Episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 2 - January 25, 2013
    7.5/10(30 votes)

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    GOPAC president David Avella; former Vt. Gov. Howard Dean; political strategist Kristen Soltis; House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi; Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont).

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  2. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 6 - March 1, 2013
    7.5/10(31 votes)

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    Cybersecurity expert James Lyne; musician Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg); finance expert Monica Mehta; Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA); political strategist Steve Schmidt.

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  3. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 16 - May 17, 2013
    7.5/10(29 votes)

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    Guests: Oscar winning director Michael Moore; from "The Hangover Part III", actor/comedian Zach Galifianakis; from "The Cycle", co-host S.E. Cupp; from "Foreign Policy Begins at Home", author Richard Haas; NYT Finance columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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  4. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 18 - June 7, 2013
    7.5/10(32 votes)

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    Guests: Filmmaker & author Tom Shadyac; journalist & author George Packer; GOP strategist Ana Navarro; comedian Dana Gould; author Kevin Williamson.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 26 - September 13, 2013
    7.5/10(33 votes)

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    Panellists: Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edwin Lyman, Bill Nye, Michael Steele, Matt Taibbi.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 30 - October 11, 2013
    7.4/10(30 votes)

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  7. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 5 - February 15, 2013
    7.3/10(31 votes)

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    Robert Zimmerman; actor Joel McHale; political strategist Donna Brazile; author Jon Meacham; editor Jamie Weinstein.

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  8. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 10 - April 5, 2013
    7.3/10(27 votes)

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    Interview Guest: Sebastian Junger Panelists: Abby Huntsman, Stephen Moore, Bernie Sanders Panel Guest: Zack Kopplin Sebastian Junger is an award-winning Afghanistan war correspondent and filmmaker. His latest project is a film for HBO titled "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington". Abby Huntsman is a political commentator and host of HuffPost Live. Stephen Moore is an economist, conservative commentator and the author of "Who’s The Fairest of Them All: The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America". Bernie Sanders is the independent senator from Vermont. Zack Kopplin is a science education activist.

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  9. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 21 - June 28, 2013
    7.3/10(28 votes)

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    The Interview: Anthony Leiserowitz is the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which "investigates the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception and behavior." Twitter: @ecotone2 The Panel: Kristen Soltis has been described as "the Republican Party's leading millennial pollster" and serves as the Vice President of DC-based opinion research and political communications firm The Winston Group. Twitter: @KSoltisAnderson Dan Neil is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Wall Street Journal's "Rumble Seat" column, where he reviews everything from the Aston Martin Rapide S to John Deer's latest Gator. Twitter: @Danneilwsj Horace Cooper is a writer and legal commentator who serves at the Co-Chairman of the National Advisory Board for Project 21: "an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment." He is also a partner at Monument Communications. Adrian Grenier will join the panel mid-show. He is an actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur who recently produced 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs,' a film exploring the failure of American's drug war. It opens in New York on June 26th and Los Angeles on June 28th and is currently available on demand. Adrian recently penned an editorial for The Huffington Post, calling for the "return a sense of rationality and proportion to a justice system that has spun wildly out of control."

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  10. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 12 - April 19, 2013
    7.2/10(29 votes)

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    Tonight's guests are director Brian Levin, gun control advocate Colin Goddard, TV anchor Amy Holmes, columnist & author Nicholas Kristof and author Salman Rushdie.

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  11. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 15 - May 10, 2013
    7.2/10(29 votes)

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    Guests: From "Star Trek: Into Darkness", actor Zachary Quinto; NYT Food & Opinion journalist Mark Bittman; Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald; MSNBC analyst Joy Reid; National Review journalist Charles Cooke.

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  12. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 19 - June 14, 2013
    7.2/10(32 votes)

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    Guests: Ex U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI); "The Center Holds" author Jonathan Alter; "Gasland Part II" director Josh Fox; "Great Degeneration" author and Harvard professor Niall Ferguson; conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway.

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  13. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 27 - September 20, 2013
    7.2/10(28 votes)

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    Bill's guests are Joy Behar, Billy Crystal, David Frum, Chris Hayes, and Jeremy Seifert.

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  14. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 33 - November 8, 2013
    7.2/10(31 votes)

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    Interviewee: Billy Binney (NSA whistleblower) Panelists: John Heilemann ("Double Down" co-author), Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (University of Texas fellow), David Avella (GOPAC President) Panel Guest: Anthony Weiner (Ex-Rep. D-NY) Topics: NSA spying, 2013 elections, Chris Christie as a 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Republican constituents, Tea Party vs. GOP establishment, Anthony Weiner scandal and media coverage of the scandal, Obamacare, Bill de Blasio's victory, commemorating tragedies, self-importance of political authors, hypocrisy of the religious right.

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  15. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 1 - January 18, 2013
    7.1/10(36 votes)

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    Guests: Comedian Martin Short, former Governor & Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE), journalist Rula Jebreal, reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, and former Rep. Steve LaTourette. Topics: The future of the Republicans, gun control, Israeli elections, revolution in Syria, torture, Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax, the media, neither party cares about privacy

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  16. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 4 - February 8, 2013
    7.1/10(37 votes)

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    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; editor Tina Brown; journalist Josh Barro; jouralist Martin Bashir; theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss.

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  17. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 7 - March 8, 2013
    7.1/10(30 votes)

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    Journalist Charlies LeDuff; author Arianna Huffington; health care expert Avik Roy; former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele; actor/comic David Cross.

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  18. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 13 - April 26, 2013
    7.1/10(28 votes)

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    Guests: Donald Borelli, Jimmy Kimmel, John Avlon, Anna Deavere Smith, Robert Traynham.

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  19. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 29 - October 4, 2013
    7.1/10(29 votes)

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    No description available

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  20. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 34 - November 15, 2013
    7.1/10(28 votes)

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    Guests: Casey Affleck (actor), Ezra Klein (Washington Post journalist), Reihan Salam (National Review Online blogger), Mattie Duppler (Americans for Tax Reform), Radley Balko (Washington Post journalist).

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  21. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 3 - February 1, 2013
    7.0/10(32 votes)

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    Interview Guests: Alex Gibney, Sam Harris Panelists: Cory Booker, Jackie Kucinich, Eva Longoria Alex Gibney is an American documentary filmmaker. His latest documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" apparently debuts Feb 4, 2013 on HBO. Sam Harris is a philosopher whose latest book is "Free Will". He blogs at samharris.org and has recently written on the gun control issue. Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey and is a high-profile Democrat. Jackie Kucinich is a reporter covering politics for USA Today and is a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC. Eva Longoria is an American television and film actress, best known for her roles on "The Young and the Restless" and "Desperate Housewives".

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  22. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 11 - April 12, 2013
    7.0/10(28 votes)

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    Gun control advocate Colin Goddard; sportscaster Bob Costas; political strategist Stephanie Cutter; economist David Stockman; activist Saru Jayaraman.

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  23. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 24 - July 26, 2013
    7.0/10(29 votes)

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    Guests: tba

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  24. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 35 - November 22, 2013
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    S11:E35

    Guests: Wendell Pierce ("Treme", actor), Bob Ehrlich (Ex-Gov. R-MD), Paul Begala (CNN analyst), Katty Kay (BBC America anchor), ...

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  25. Real Time with Bill Maher Season 11 Episode 8 - March 15, 2013
    6.9/10(29 votes)

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    Education reformer Michelle Rhee, chef Tom Colicchio, economist Jared Bernstein, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), and TV host Rachel Maddow.

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"January 25, 2013" is the best rated episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" season 11. It scored 7.5/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/25/2013. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "March 1, 2013".