# Real Time with Bill Maher season 17

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

## Episodes

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