Real Time with Bill Maher season 17

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

Real Time with Bill Maher
Season 17
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Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	January 18 (2019-01-18) – November 15, 2019 (2019-11-15)
Season chronology
List of episodes

Episodes

See also: List of Real Time with Bill Maher episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Guests	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
481	1	John Kasich, Erick Erickson, Barney Frank, Catherine Rampell, Marshawn Lynch	January 18, 2019 (2019-01-18)	1.78[1]
482	2	Ann Coulter, Dan Savage, Michael McFaul, Heather McGhee, Joshua Green	January 25, 2019 (2019-01-25)	1.73[2]
483	3	Bill de Blasio, Jon Meacham, Will Hurd, Jennifer Rubin, Peter Hamby	February 1, 2019 (2019-02-01)	1.67[3]
484	4	Eric Idle, Chris Christie, Jack Kingston, Malcolm Nance, Natasha Bertrand	February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)	1.61[4]
485	5	John Legend, Rahm Emanuel, Paul Begala, David Frum, Maya Wiley	February 15, 2019 (2019-02-15)	1.66[5]
486	6	Adam Schiff, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Claire McCaskill, Donna Brazile, Rick Wilson	February 22, 2019 (2019-02-22)	1.53[6]
487	7	Matt Schlapp, Michael Steele, Jonathan Alter, Mary Katharine Ham, Noah Rothman	March 8, 2019 (2019-03-08)	1.56[7]
488	8	Andrew McCabe, Andrew Gillum, John Heilemann, Jon Tester, Jessica Yellin	March 15, 2019 (2019-03-15)	1.63[8]
489	9	Eric Swalwell, Larry Charles, Evelyn Farkas, Irshad Manji, Kristen Soltis Anderson	March 22, 2019 (2019-03-22)	1.51[9]
490	10	Pete Buttigieg, Preet Bharara, Elissa Slotkin, S. E. Cupp, Andrew Sullivan	March 29, 2019 (2019-03-29)	1.52[10]
491	11	Salman Rushdie, Chelsea Handler, Julian Castro, Danielle Pletka, Gideon Rose	April 5, 2019 (2019-04-05)	1.45[11]
492	12	Dave Barry, Cornell Belcher, Wendy Sherman, Matt Welch, Seth Abramson	April 12, 2019 (2019-04-12)	N/A
493	13	Bob Costas, Adam Schiff, Grover Norquist, John Avlon, Zerlina Maxwell	April 26, 2019 (2019-04-26)	1.51[12]
494	14	Jay Inslee, Moby, Kara Swisher, Bret Stephens, Bakari Sellers	May 3, 2019 (2019-05-03)	1.53[13]
495	15	Michael Lewis, Tim Ryan, Van Jones, Nayyera Haq, Matt Lewis	May 10, 2019 (2019-05-10)	1.46[14]
496	16	Fran Lebowitz, Jonathan Metzl, James Kirchick, George Packer, Neera Tanden	May 17, 2019 (2019-05-17)	1.40[15]
497	17	William Weld, Jonathan Swan, Lawrence Wilkerson, Kirsten Powers, John Waters	May 31, 2019 (2019-05-31)	1.35[16]
498	18	Andrew Yang, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Blow, Katie Porter, Clint Watts	June 7, 2019 (2019-06-07)	1.35[17]
499	19	George Will, Martin Short, Eliot Spitzer, Bari Weiss, Charlie Sykes	June 14, 2019 (2019-06-14)	1.42[18]
500	20	Dan Savage, Thom Hartmann, Allan Lichtman, Debra W. Soh, Liz Mair	June 21, 2019 (2019-06-21)	1.33[19]
501	21	Seth MacFarlane, Tulsi Gabbard, Joy Reid, Adam Gopnik, Max Brooks	June 28, 2019 (2019-06-28)	1.55[20]
502	22	Hakeem Jeffries, Josh Barro, Jennifer Granholm, Buck Sexton, Marianne Williamson	August 2, 2019 (2019-08-02)	1.24[21]
503	23	Richard Engel, Terry McAuliffe, Anthony Scaramucci, Tom Nichols, Catherine Rampell	August 9, 2019 (2019-08-09)	1.45[22]
504	24	Sheldon Whitehouse, Killer Mike, Carl Hulse, Rick Wilson, Betsy Woodruff	August 16, 2019 (2019-08-16)	1.43[23]
505	25	Katie Porter, Heidi Heitkamp, Kevin D. Williamson, Michael Smerconish, Eric Klinenberg	August 23, 2019 (2019-08-23)	1.46[24]
506	26	Christina Hoff Sommers, Maria Teresa Kumar, Joe Walsh, John Delaney, Matt Welch	September 6, 2019 (2019-09-06)	1.51[25]
507	27	Michael Moore, Bari Weiss, Krystal Ball, Michael Steele, Fernand Amandi	September 13, 2019 (2019-09-13)	1.41[26]
508	28	Samantha Power, Andrew Sullivan, Heather McGhee, Timothy Naftali, Sarah Haider	September 20, 2019 (2019-09-20)	1.44[27]
509	29	Salman Rushdie, Gina McCarthy, Barney Frank, Noah Rothman, Linette Lopez	September 27, 2019 (2019-09-27)	1.56[28]
510	30	Howard Stern, Amy Klobuchar, Ben Domenech, Shawna Thomas, John Heilemann	October 11, 2019 (2019-10-11)	1.44[29]
This episode deviated from the usual format in which the second guest joins Maher at the table with the panel of 3 panelists and the panelists join the conversation with the second guest. Instead, Maher had a second one on one interview with Klobuchar.
511	31	Susan Rice, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Danielle Pletka, Sam Stein, Thomas Chatterton Williams	October 18, 2019 (2019-10-18)	1.41[30]
512	32	Chris Cuomo, Zach Galifianakis, Donny Deutsch, Elissa Slotkin, Dan Carlin	October 25, 2019 (2019-10-25)	1.35[31]
513	33	Ronan Farrow, Dennis Prager, Rick Stengel, Dr. Jay Gordon, Christina Bellantoni	November 1, 2019 (2019-11-01)	1.42[32]
514	34	Judy Sheindlin, Judd Apatow, Steve Bullock, Rahm Emanuel, Steve Schmidt	November 8, 2019 (2019-11-08)	1.44[33]
515	35	Sherrod Brown, Donna Brazile, Ian Bremmer, Frank Bruni, Jaime Harrison	November 15, 2019 (2019-11-15)	1.56[34]