HBO Real Time Returns

January 23, 2026

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BILL MAHER COMEDY TOUR

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“I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? “

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“Men are only as loyal as their options.”

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All religion is just an opinion.

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“As you go down the path of life, ask what’s true. Not who else believes it.”

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“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.'”

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“Trump rides the bus with Billy Bush and we throw Al Franken under it.”

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“I’m for the death penalty, I’m pro-abortion, I’m pro-assisted suicide, I’m pro-regular suicide. Anything that’ll get the traffic moving.”

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“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”

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“George Bush, compared to these tea baggers, he looks like a professor.”

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“I don’t want my president to be a TV star. You don’t have to be on television every minute of every day – you’re the president, not a rerun of ‘Law & Order’.”

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“When you tolerate intolerance, you are not really being a liberal.”

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“To really understand how whack religion is, you have to look at the new religions– which for this country is Mormons and Scientologists. Who I think should merge and make Mormontology.”

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“There’s a reason small towns are small. No one wants to live there.”

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“The irony is what we love most about our cars—the feeling of freedom they provide—has made us slaves. Slaves to cheap oil, which has corrupted our politics, threatened our environment and funded our enemies.”

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“Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”

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“Isn’t the problem that almost all Republicans are conservative, but not all Democrats are liberal?”

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“If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.”

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“I believe in the death penalty, but with better DNA testing – my slogan is ‘Let’s Kill The right People'”

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“What do you think would happen if tomorrow Obama showed up with Kanye’s crop circles shaved into his head? Stock market would lose 5,000 pts.”

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“There are good people who do good things, there are bad people who do bad things, but to get a good person to do a bad thing takes religion.”

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