# Real Time with Bill Maher season 3

This is a list of episodes from the third season of Real Time with Bill Maher.
Note that the Iraq War, President George W. Bush (from 2003 to 2009), and current/upcoming elections are frequent topics on the show and may not be listed under individual episodes.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original release date |
| 44 | 1 | Lesley Stahl, Robin Williams, Tommy Thompson, Joe Biden, Don Cheadle | February 18, 2005 (2005-02-18) |
| On protecting sources, Jeff Gannon, on interrogating prisoners, Iraq elections, Darfur ||||
| 45 | 2 | Jose Canseco, Tim Robbins, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee | February 25, 2005 (2005-02-25) |
| On steroids, on Iran and Iraq, on religious belief, Ward Churchill, President Bush, on Covenant Marriage, Million Dollar Baby ||||
| 46 | 3 | Janet Reno, Bernadine Healy, Dave Foley, Ward Churchill, Michael Faughnan, Whoopi Goldberg | March 4, 2005 (2005-03-04) |
| BTK killer, on the Ten Commandments, torture, on raising children ||||
| 47 | 4 | Barney Frank, Richard Belzer, Andrew Breitbart, Irshad Manji, Camille Paglia | March 11, 2005 (2005-03-11) |
| Gay marriage, women of Iraq, war, teachers sleeping with students, Michael Jackson ||||
| 48 | 5 | Christine Todd Whitman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Jason Alexander, Frank Murkowski, Thomas Frank | March 18, 2005 (2005-03-18) |
| Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, steroids, Republican Party, environment ||||
| 49 | 6 | Bill O'Reilly, Cornel West, Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Jesse Jackson | April 1, 2005 (2005-04-01) |
| Pope, Terri Schiavo case, Republican majority ||||
| 50 | 7 | Mario Cuomo, Ian McShane, Arianna Huffington, Joe Watkins, Richard Perle | April 8, 2005 (2005-04-08) |
| Tom DeLay, Iraq, immigration ||||
| 51 | 8 | Thomas Friedman, David Frum, Natalie Maines, Wesley Clark, Barbara Boxer | April 15, 2005 (2005-04-15) |
| Middle East, Darfur, gays in the military, guns, immigration ||||
| 52 | 9 | Jane Fonda, Joe Scarborough, Maureen Dowd, Alan K. Simpson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | April 22, 2005 (2005-04-22) |
| Religion, Pope, airport security, environment, John R. Bolton ||||
| 53 | 10 | Chuck Schumer, Michael Steele, Farai Chideya, Martin Short, Jeff Gannon | April 29, 2005 (2005-04-29) |
| Voter issues, US budget, on the Presidential press conference ||||
| 54 | 11 | Madeleine Albright, Andrew Sullivan, Kim Campbell, Michael McKean, Bernie Sanders | May 6, 2005 (2005-05-06) |
| Kim Jong-il, Pat Robertson, Pope, censorship, activist judges ||||
| 55 | 12 | Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Liz Marlantes, Gore Vidal, Charles Barkley | May 13, 2005 (2005-05-13) |
| Terror alerts, Voting irregularities, Iraq, Darfur, gay Republicans ||||
| 56 | 13 | Paul Hackett, Asa Hutchinson, Kellyanne Conway, Chris Rock, Phyllis Schlafly | August 19, 2005 (2005-08-19) |
| Cindy Sheehan, Iraq, John Kerry, racial profiling, activist judges ||||
| 57 | 14 | Cindy Sheehan, Mike Huckabee, Dan Savage, Eve Ensler, Kinky Friedman | August 26, 2005 (2005-08-26) |
| Camp Casey, gay marriage, health, Bush's vacation, Subprime mortgage crisis predicted ||||
| 58 | 15 | Anderson Cooper, Stephen Schneider, Michael Eric Dyson, Bradley Whitford, Mary Frances Berry, Fareed Zakaria | September 2, 2005 (2005-09-02) |
| Hurricane Katrina, poverty, Iraq ||||
| 59 | 16 | Walter Maestri, Joe Scarborough, George Carlin, Cynthia Tucker, James K. Glassman, Kurt Vonnegut | September 9, 2005 (2005-09-09) |
| Michael D. Brown, US political system, on race, on the Administration ||||
| 60 | 17 | Chuck Schumer, P. J. O'Rourke, Joy Behar, Willie Brown, Dan Senor | September 16, 2005 (2005-09-16) |
| John Roberts, Bush taking responsibility, poverty, Iraq ||||
| 61 | 18 | Willie Nelson, David Dreier, Christopher Hitchens, Katty Kay, George Galloway, Andrea Mitchell | September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23) |
| Hurricane Rita, Vice President Cheney, Jet Blue emergency landing, foreign oil dependency, Margaret Thatcher, critiquing the U.S. ||||
| 62 | 19 | Ann Coulter, Andrew Sullivan, Ben Affleck, Salman Rushdie, Kayla Williams | October 7, 2005 (2005-10-07) |
| Harriet Miers, religion, torture ||||
| 63 | 20 | Max Cleland, Tina Brown, Larry Miller, Tom Wolfe, Richard Pennington, John Edwards | October 14, 2005 (2005-10-14) |
| President's approval rating, poverty, police beatings, Iraq, Harriet Miers ||||
| 64 | 21 | Arianna Huffington, Tucker Carlson, Michel Martin, Spike Lee, Chris Webber | October 21, 2005 (2005-10-21) |
| Valerie Plame, New York Times, health care, NBA dress code, governments response to Katrina, conspiracy in New Orleans ||||
| 65 | 22 | Richard A. Clarke, Helen Thomas, Billy Connolly, Tony Snow, Nadira Hira | October 28, 2005 (2005-10-28) |
| Press Corps, Scooter Libby ||||
| 66 | 23 | Mary Robinson, Joe Scarborough, John Waters, Tom Daschle, Sanjay Gupta | November 4, 2005 (2005-11-04) |
| Rosa Parks' funeral, national security leak ||||