Overtime: David Duchovny, Matt Taibbi, Lis Smith | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) 

the audience has been a team of sycophantic seals since the first episode

Yes! I generally agree with Bill (except sometimes when he acts like a boomer, masks, cali laws etc), but the over the top audience that claps no matter what is a bit much.

It was so bad I even noticed it over the Vocal Fry Olympics going on with the panelists

I think they have people placed in that audience. It’s the same ridiculous scream every week.

For so many reasons…

She is insufferable

Hahaha....so true

brilliant

...until you find out that she loves having her toes sucked

I don't knooow...what it is you're talking about???

whats up with inviting that airhead tho

Yes.

Agreed

This is why they have control groups in studies accounting for placebo

He can afford to talk about the mind/body connection. The poor slobs in the medical industry machinery are not afforded these considerations.

Yeah, she's a throwaway.

@Stillwell Angel 😆🤣 I came here for this exact comment.

My guess was a botox lip flip, botox to the upper lip. I get them myself.

It makes me happy to learn that I'm not the only person she annoyed.

I had to turn off the sound when she spoke

Vocal fry

Close to the teacher on Charlie Brown.....

She is soooo embarrassing

Shes an idiot

Taibbi is a sociopathic right wing fascist. That is the part he plays today because it is very lucrative.

He somehow escaped Bill's radar, as he (Maher) is terrified of having anyone to his left on his show to humiliate him

@@loulfw2513 Taibbii is a right wing fascist. Its the lucrative position to take these days.

@@peterstafford4426 Oh look, infamously unserious bootlicker Peter Stafford is on here too!

@@peterstafford4426 I dont know about rwf but, he does seem to have moved substantially to the right. I remember him recently sort of laughing at the idea that Trump had any kind suspicious relationship with Putin.

Co-signed 🙏🏻

I've read all of his books. They're great. His dad was a great reporter as well

She was a total idiot. Couldn't defend any points always deflecting

Exactly my thoughts

Totally agree re; Matt Taibbi....Liz Smith really should be relegated to an account manager for Chucky Cheese

He strikes me as a snarky, Hollywood liberal. Like Ben Affleck, but without the yelling.

@@peterh8441 Thanks for sharing, Peter.

@@kevinsager5054 Peter H strikes me as a typical, Internet incel. Like all the others, but without any creativity.

@@peterh8441 This deserves an eye-roll

Was married to Tia Leoni.

It’s annoying.

Thank Morton Downey Jr.for that. Oh Wait! You can't!

I met a producer once that said "laugh flacks" are hired for shows and make up to $1,000 an appearance. This, and other shows, almost always have a couple of flacks that can be singled out by their phony, obnoxious outbursts.

Its Friday FFS!

😆😆😆"blue- assed baboons" can't get that picture out of my head

Would have been nice if that awful woman would have deferred to his superior intelligence and let him speak.

@@D-Fens_1632 Miss know it all who was nothing more than a woketevist.

@@canisfamiliaris401 I was so glad when he left Rolling Stone. He was so out of place there.

@@D-Fens_1632 FACTS

I did enjoy his book "Hate Inc." I find that when it comes to journalism, you can tell someone is as close to objective as possible when (1) that person can criticize the entirety of the ideological or political spectrum when necessary, not when convenient. (2) And if you have a hard time putting them into one of those ideological and political boxes, then there's a good chance they don't embody a particular identity politics.

I thought she was drunk….or Nina J’s obnoxious twin.

She sounds drunk.

Shes def on adderall

What choice did she have she’s an elitist fool

Starting when she selected that ridiculous outfit. She acts as if she's on drugs, too.

what kind of petulant little children are on this comment thread? good grief

That's how people on adderall act

Just wish he would be more forceful he has something interesting to say

Is that lady related to the Kardashians what a typical democrat I’m not republican but my lord I can see with people like these representing democrats make you say I can’t vote for this Hillary want to be shit

I just wish Matt Taibbi's voice didn't sound like he is always about to start crying. I love his work.

@@annettemacdonald9192 Agreed, although there is something to be said for the seemingly lost art of politeness in political discussions.

@@annettemacdonald9192 Agree but it's a really challenging format for having any kind of substantive discussion. It's more geared for people just talking over each other with one-liners. Mahar provides the model for this M.O. and thus sets the stage. Taibbi just isn't inclined to aggressively talk over people.

Well, she is a Democratic political hack, after all. So, no surprise there! But my favourite moment during Overtime was David Duchovny's "But." It was perfectly timed to deflate her BS.

Matt’s father was a solid reporter too. I grew up listening to him on local NYC newscasts. I think he retired in 2014, having covered, among other events, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his career, Taibbi also worked at CBS News.

He's one of the few reporters you can trust to be truthful. He should be a household name, if he isn't already.

He's essentially a writer

I like Duchovny, but I would have preferred Matt having the 1:1 segment. Could have shown the pretenders what journalism is supposed to be.

When Tiabbi hit her with “That isn’t saying much” to her comment about Buttigieg polling the highest in the Biden Administration, she should’ve kept quiet from then on.

@@LTVegas-vf6km She reminds me of the worst parts of politics. Gas lighting the public.

He's had him on before.

Have you ever heard of Maher. He was canceled before cancellation was a thing for saying bombing people from thousands of miles away isn’t brave.

@@brianlara6451 I saw your 400 live in Antigua., 👏🏻👏🏻

@@dannyarcher6370 not me. It’s funny how common the name is.

Terrestrial competition if the Gop is saporting Ukraine War then what the he'll up with China concerning there attacks on Nancy Pelosi there is a point of no return considering the only American allowed in Russia today is Donald Trump according to Putin he wants them Rubles lmao

Sounds like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lamb

The Apple didn’t fall far from the tree - Matt’s Dad, Mike was a no-nonsense Journalist.

And Aaron Mate

Matt Taibbi is a God.

...in prozac.

ok, so just let those animals come and kill us and ruin our countries?? its exhausting how we always hve be the tolerant ones when they are bsolutely irrational

100% correct

That's a sweet thought, but not an easy issue to judge. I'm not for war, but I do understand that there are necessary horrors in war. What you seem to be saying is that we should not have carpet bombed Germany during WWII, because so many innocent people were killed. I like that thought... and I also know that there is such a thing as being too idealistic.

Welcome to the Earth. Leaders of a lot of countries here try not to kill too many innocents, but it happens anyways. It happens anyways. It happens anyways. Then, there are leaders that go over the edge, like Hitler for one example. It happens anyways. Shitty people gain power, and a lot of innocents die when others attempt taking them out. It sucks that so many people die when they don’t have to. It happens in our own country. It happens anyways.

@@MYCMESSIAH sorry about the kids, but they would have turned out to be terrorists too

He’s a pretty funny guy. I used to have quite the crush on him. He was so great looking back when he did the X files.

@@fabulousbabe He is pretty funny, naturally, he's a lot older than when he did X-Files but nowadays I find that he's looking more weathered and haggard.

It is REALITY that has become partisan - the GQP lives in an alternate reality - anti-science.

I agree, it's very sad that happened and even a pandemic couldn't bring people together.

Not in the civilised world

It’s all dems fault, the Minute Biden and Harris called it the Trump vaccine and virus during the debates made it political

Maybe, that's her normal speech pattern. Her speech sounded slurred. v

She was treated poorly., I felt bad for her

@@riffs246 I feel badly for us having to listen to her. There’s always the guest who rambles on, and doesn’t answer the question but has to get their agenda across.

@@riffs246 because she was awful. And probably drunk

Yes, he's incredibly happy about EVERYTHING he says!

Good call

It’s so annoying!!!

It really distracts from the show.

He worked for Arsenio beck in 1991’! Heard he was like one of the top three, goto Whoo! Guys, in all of L.A.

Yeah, Bill needs to get rid of all of them. They are a big distraction from the show.

Maher should send that guy to The View. Where they appreciate boisterous interruptions, over logic, all the time.

And Duchovny's with Bill's. They both think she's an idiot.

She’s unbearable. She’s worse in the full show

😆

What vast confounding mysteries does her job title explain to foreign observers?

@@nychellebrewer No mystery at all, just the astonishing stupidity of corporate Democrat politics, influenced by "strategists" like her.

Lol

How can you take any strategist seriously when all they say is to make their base look good. I'm talking both sides.

David was a waste of time and offered nothing

The fact that you can't get beyond "the girl" says a lot.

The "girl." Really?? As much as she did nothing for me, referring to a grown woman as a girl just shows how little women are regarded.

@@annmarieknapp2480 Says volumes about Bill's new audience. Even when Bill pretended to be a liberal, I never liked him and would often just watch for the guests. Now it's his way or the highway.

@@SirGriffin87 David did have a nice Ronald McDonald blast for the republicans- to remind everyone what a circus act the GOP has become. That should be worth a point or 2.

He a NPC

Agreed!

That's how Agent Mulder does it.

I'm all for fresh thoughts, but this nation has got to stop relying on the armchair "hunches" of former TV celebrities, including especially Dipshit Donald. Let's leave the complex problems to the pro's who have devoted their entire adult lives to studying these issues with serious academic discipline.

@@ceterisparibus51 yes

She's abonxious.

She's paid for not being nuanced

Agree 100%

They didn’t wear masks OUTSIDE before Covid cooties, what changed? Oh, right, fearmongering 🤣🤣

Freedom being used as an excuse for selfishness. You do not have the 'Freedumb' of right to infect others...

LOL all the sick children tho

@@sunnyla2835 , Long covid? No mask shaming. You do you & I'll do me. v

I wished Elliot Spitzer was still around in politics. He was actually going to be the next president on the course he was on. And what he did was nothing compared to what some of the Republicans have done in recent years. As a matter a fact, it's nothing compared to what republicans have done. She's a zero in regards, that she had nothing to LOSE. Bill is not the same person, politically he was 15 years ago when I first started watching him, nor at his live shows I used to attend of him when he came to town. He's basically sold out the base of fans who actually made him. They have all left him now.

@@thethirdgeneration1738 as someone who has supported him since the full bush was in style, I have to disagree.

Lis Smith is sometimes difficult.

@@thethirdgeneration1738 Also nothing compared to what democrats have done in recent years as well. Turns out both Republicans and democrats are just humans and do horrible shat. Judging from your Marx thumbnail I think Maher has been just fine where he’s been. Luckily as much of this country moves more to the left, he’s one of the ones to stay somewhat in the same spot he has been.

Hoping she just had a bad night, between her inability to form a cohesive sentence and get to the fkng point,lol. Never seen her before sooo not sure if she is like that all the time.

true. nice to see him get only 3 minutes to speak. smh

The Rolling Stone has been shit since he has been involved.

@@bassman812 He's a freelancer that hasn't been with Rolling Stone for quite a while now. Also, Rolling Stone has been shit for decades, even when he was their only good writer.

@@bassman812 rolling stones has been shit for decades. They even published bullshit stories that were not vetted and they got sued for millions for it.

High

@@Pasta_watcher she was losing her train of thought….that’s done when high.

@@marylhere No. That's an alcohol reaction.

He'd be a great podcast listen, Tabibi as well.

We had No Wars, $2.20 gas and No Inflation under Trump. . Dukovney was drugged up and spewing MSNBC talking points.

Stunning. We can only hope that she stays campaign manager when Gayor Pete runs.

*Mayor

I'm betting she won't be back!

Why did Bill invite her? It's not like she wasn't a known quantity (that quantity being very little...) from any interview or telephone conversation they would have had with her.

Taibbi's ok...but Bill's had much better panel members.

Awful In context as well.

It's the long winded hair whip, eye batting, staring off into the rafters "deer in headlights" trip. What was that Kurt Russell said to Egg Shen, Ah Yes "Get to the god damn point, Egg!"

- Covid wasn’t an issue in the global south because they had access to cheap off label treatments. We know why those very treatments were demonized, along with the doctors advocating for their use in the West. Nor why proper studies on such treatments were not commissioned by those that hold the purse strings on the research. Rather only bogus studies with fixed results published by journals underwritten by the pharma industry and their captured regulatory agencies who benefit from keeping positive results suppressed. As we saw with the phony research conducted on HCQ in the spring of 2020, when both The Lancet and NEJM had to retract their publications. Luckily there were several studies conducted that proved an over 80% effectiveness rate with IVM. You can leave a comment stating you’re a physician and claiming Ivermectin has no benefit for covid, but your opinion does run counter to many frontline doctors that have had lots of success, and since they have been censored and harassed, I tend to believe them and their evidence, because it’s not real science if doctors and scientists around the world are being censored and their research suppressed. You sound more like someone that just obeys the symbols of authority, and follows the indoctrination patterns of your big pharma masters rather than has a curiosity and passion to actually help patients by looking at the data and research from doctors that have treated thousands of covid patients with great success. Hope to god you never prescribed Remdesivir or are pushing an unnecessary experimental gene therapy concoction onto children.

Thank you Doctor! So tired of Bill’s anti medicine nonsense. He’s embarrassing himself!

Thank you, aac72079. I love watching Bill, but tonight I found he was making a hypocrite of himself. Especially the meta-message. Yes Bill made his point (and pointing a finger) about obesity, but in less than a minute he’s arguing about health science recommendations as a violation of his beloved freedom. There was a few of these moments tonight, ironically even with the woman on the panel, where he could have been less reactionary and shown more class, like the male guests tonight. Bottom line, If you’re not “all that” (ie a physician and licensed epidemiologist, on the Coronavirus topic) then a little humility would go far…..

Hear hear

Thank you Doctor!! Maher has be making me crazy with his uninformed opinions re: science. I've been screaming at the TV lol. He has not dared to have an MD on to provide actual facts.

I don't know that its advice, but I do know that doctors and nurses are conservative about giving out anti-biotics because of what Bill said, they don't just pass it out for fun.

Bill is becoming the old grumpy neighbor, complaining all the time.

@@kfhroe8262 You keep saying that same comment...makes no sense.

Agreed, but Bill knows his audience loves the taste of boot. Give the people what they want in between trying to pull their heads out.

@@Astrobucks2 Why? Repetita juvant.

Yeah. Do you think they like salami and bologna?

I'd prefer that terrorist still be alive and the children as well. Anyone who thinks killing dozens of people to get one person, is the problem, not the solution.

Lol same. I keep trying to watch it but shes so irritating and also she just keeps talking a lot

I partially agree. Some of us just don't want our families and children to be part of the experiments or mistakes. Sacrifices will be made in the process but it should be voluntary.

Mistakes are often made but so are lies. To know the difference you must do research.

Yeah, like take this vaccine or lose you job. Trust the science!

Tell that to Tony, Joe and the rest of the Dems.

@@xfactor3000 "Some of us just don't want our families and children to be part of the experiments or mistakes." Scientific progress ends when people stop taking risks. But historically speaking, as just a brute statistical/empirical fact, your odds are always better going with the confluence of accumulated scientific knowledge -- e.g., getting a goddam COVID vaccine vs. leaving this up to chance (or God, or Ivermectin, or whatever other crackpot alternative you might be into).

Exactly right about those clowns in the audience. Why are they yelling like they're at a strip club?. It's so annoying I almost turned the sound off and just watch sub-titles. Maybe I'm over sensitive to sounds but Liz Smith' voice annoys me too!

The audience has been driving me nuts for years! Glad I'm not alone. Woo Hoo is the sound of an empty mind

That's most people in the Democrat party. This is why you vote red this year. Let's not allow our country to be dismantled.

He is a very intelligent guy.

Not sure. My sis, who got blood poisoning, blood clots, and every other Covid symptom known to date, is on her seventh antibiotic, all of which seem to work only for a couple of weeks, until she needs a new one, and she is still waiting to recover after 4+ months !

doesn't mean she should be treated like shit. He invited her to be a guest. At least have some courtesy-some dignity and respect sic. Mick Jagger

@@riffs246 I don't know how you came to that conclusion... she was treated with respect the whole time.

ANY Hollywood figure who doesn't spew left wing garbage is a treasure

lmao...he is woke lib trash

Right ON

True, even here in Canada it’s absolutely nothing like the US.

Bill is becoming the old grumpy neighbor, complaining all the time.

@@kfhroe8262 seriously, and he doesn't think things through anymore, just connects everything to things he already hates.

@@lgolem09l correct!

He's not very smart just opinionated.

Bill generalizes issues too much at times. He overdramatizes too much at times. He should have stuck to his main premises...religions are bogus and economic disparity are the root of problems.

Bill thinks his experience having Covid makes him an expert. He is basically saying, I had Covid and, eh, it wasn't that bad, I'm fine now. He is just dismissing all of the people that died from Covid, that lost loved ones to Covid, those living with Complications caused by Covid and those living with long Covid. His cynicism has overtaken his judgement.

yeah he loses me there every time he goes on tirade over masks.. and then pushes issue.. tough to take..

@@bryanbaumgartner5302 Amazing how he doesn't talk about economic disparity after covid lock down.

She’s snarky.

Look her up, you might understand WHY x she’s so snarky!!

If you thought this was bad watch the Kelly Anne Conway episode

@@deadbob9 I wouldn’t watch kac

She's clueless

she’d take offense and make snarky comments whenever she was proven wrong

I don’t disagree. But at some level, Democrats and Leftists are peddling falsehoods about what it is to be a human being and what our drivers are. The utopia is a fantasy and no amount of strategizing is gonna change that.

Definitely.

why? ..do you suffer from insomnia ?

Alright, that's funny!

Lol that lady is a doorknob

I had to play it back a couple times make sure I herd her correctly,”Better than being a panelist”. Sheesh what the fuck

In other words, you're saying Taibbi didn't have the balls or wherewithal to get his point in and was easily talked over. Sounds meek and mum. If she's a desperate housewife, he's a whipped husband. Couldn't someone with something to say have said it?

She sounds like a 13 year old girl.

That's how most women do it.

@@ctguitarguy8510 Calm down

@@TheFilthLA very calm thanks

That's a great description. Good call, my dude!

The truth is out there

I didn’t know that. I don’t Follow celebrity gossip

A statement WHERE. Sorry, I still consider it gossip even if it’s true

@Samurai 7 you refused to answer WHERE he put out this statement. I consider your statement gossip unless you justify it.

@Samurai 7ok.don’t watch it. What show was it on so I can try to find it

@Samurai 7 okay, thanks when I get the chance

If those in charge of such matters are not corrupted by corporate lobbyists then your point would nearly be valid, but there is also the matter of incompetence. And you may have noticed there is both incompetence and corruption in your government.so do you still want to put your life in their hands without having any say in the matter? If you do. Good luck my friend

@@lynncarter4964 incompetence and corruption exists everywhere, because humans exist everywhere. it's part and parcel of society unfortunately. I never said I wanted no say in the matter; freedom of choice is still a thing and I'm not saying that the gov't should arrest people or throw them into internment camps or w/e, but there should definitely be severe penalties for putting your own personal choice above the wellbeing of society. the fact is that our lives are already and have always been in the hands of the gov't, that's literally why they're there. it is in the government's best interest to preserve the health and wellbeing of whom they govern. do they always act in that best interest? no. do they always do it well or on the first try? again, no. but neither does anyone else. but I trust the gov't to try solely because there is no benefit in letting their citizens drink bleach and take horse medicine to cure a virus. corporate lobbyists would drop like flies just like everyone else.

@@eternyti Dolt!

Nah, pandemics aren’t an excuse to bypass people’s rights. If you want to wear a mask abs get the vaccine, that’s on you. As for me & my family, we’ll deal with Covid in our own way that works for us.

@@afridgetoofar1818 1. you don't actually have rights. they're a made-up imaginary thing. 2. historically, yes, they are (or rather they're a reason not an excuse.) vaccines and mask mandates are not a new thing, they've been used before in past pandemics like the Spanish flu, H1N1, etc. and we didn't have the problem before of people thinking they knew better than the experts and claiming masks and medicine were "infringing their rights". it's not about what what anyone wants, it's about what the most effective way(s) of minimizing the spread and harm of infectious diseases are. if you endanger others by not following those protocols the gov't should punish you the same way they'd punish a reckless / drunk driver. so yeah you have the "right" to act recklessly and selfishly but when "your way of dealing with things" negatively impacts the health of other people you shouldn't get off scot-free, don't care how much better you think you know better than *actual medical professionals*

Actually, watching again, I would say that Duchovny has at least a standard deviation on everyone else there. He runs circles around everyone while being so relaxed.

He came off too smug. And he said catch words to get laughs without any critical analysis of his static perspective. I like David's acting but his views are set in stone. Matt definitely handled David's snarkiness by calling out his quips.

@@BrandonJohnson-bx1ht I was disappointed in Duchovny - I think he came off like a complete ass! He can’t be objective at all.

Why, because he's been brainwashed into subscribing to far-left nonsense like you?

David has an amazing ability to access humor very quickly