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he still hits the road for stand up shows across the country and currently the host of "realtime with bill maher" on hbo which like cnn is owned by warner bros discovery. you'll hear his takes on the next race to the white house, the state of cancel culture and how he has become the great predictor of donald trump. so thanks so much for doing this. >> hey, pleasure. >> so a lot of people might not know that your dad was actually in the news biz -- i mean your mom was a nurse but your dad was in the news business, and i'm wondering how much do you think that might have had an effect on how much you do news oriented comedy. >> tremendously. i think it was a great advantage. first of all he was also funny, and you'll find this a lot with comedians, that comedy gene just gestates through a generation. i grew up in a house that was interested in the news. my parents talked about the news.
welcome to cnn special one-on-one with bill maher. bill maher has been a figure in the world of political comedy for more than 40 years and he doesn't seem to care who's in power or whether his opinions unpopular. he still hits the road for stand up shows across the country and currently the host of "realtime with bill maher" on hbo which like cnn is owned by warner bros discovery. you'll hear his take on the white house wh, the state of cal culture and how he has become the great predictor of donald trump. so thanks so much for doing this. >> hey, pleasure.
♪ welcome to a cnn primetime special one on one with bill mahr. i'm jake tapper in washington. back from a sitdown with a man who isn't afraid to take on, well, anything. bill maher has been a figure in the world of political comedy for more than 40 years. and he doesn't seem to care who is in power or whether his opinions unpopular. he still hits the road for standup shows across the country and currently the host of "realtime with bill maher" on hbo, like cnn is owned by warner brothers discovery. this hour, you'll hear maher's takes on the next race for the white house, state of comedy and cancel culture. first we talked about how he got started in comedy and how he has become the great predictor of donald trump.
that is what your book is essentially about. you just faced off of people who are trying to kill americans. you are coming home to people who you say are also trying to kill americans. tell me who you are talking about. >> i juxtapose my time in ukraine, that is the eastern theater in the defense of global democracy. every once in a while, i hear about what is going on in the states. i take a look at the twitter feed, i take a look over my shoulder at the western wall and their defense of democracy. it is collapsing. it appears to be collapsing. i predicted this on november 6th, 2020. that is when i was on realtime with bill maher. everybody was singing kumbaya, a time to shake hands. i was seeing something completely different. i was seeing an insurgency form. that is a campaign to destabilized the sitting government. 62 days later, the first strike of that insurgency would happen. it was the insurrection here at the capitol. the insurgency is a long term
perspective, and anybody who knows, it is about more than laughs. he is known best for perhaps "the realtime with bill maher." and he continues his comedy and touring cities with good reason. in his first appearance on tv in days after the 9/11 attacks, he asked the question, can we change? that question is hovering over our nation more than ever. it is a pleasure to welcome back to "primetime" and great to see you. >> that is a great intro. >> i didn't write it, but i read it like a champ. >> you did not talk about 9/11 and me being canceled. >> but it was pre-canceled. >> but it is a much more interesting question that you cited, can we change. >> that what you were getting to, and i believe in giving people the benefit of context, and i lived through what you
decades. anyone who has watched him knows it's usually about more than laughs, okay? he is perhaps best known for "realtime with bill maher," 19th season on hbo, which like cnn, as you know is owned by warner media. he continues with comedy shows across the country, with good reason. in the days after the 9/11 attacks, he asked, "can we change." i think that question is hovering over our nation more than ever. it's a pleasure to welcome you back to "prime time." >> great intro. >> thank you very much. i didn't write it but i read it like a champ. >> you did. you didn't say what they usually say about what i said about 9/11, saying that i got canceled. >> that was precanceled. >> right. that was a much more interesting question you cited, can we change? >> that's what you were getting at. i believe giving people the benefit of context. and i lived through what happened with what you talked about after 9/11.
debuting at number two, it's getting a heartfelt response for people desperate for moral leadership. and this evening, i'll be speaking to a sold-out crowd at the national press club and tomorrow i'll be speaking at the national archives. on friday, i'll be out in california for "realtime with bill maher" and we'll be right back. believe it or not you actually like what you do. even love it. and today, you can do things you never could before. you're working in millions of places at once with iot sensors. analyzing social data on the cloud to create new designs. and using blockchain to help prevent fraud. so get back to it and do the best work of your life.
last night i had the opportunity to be a guest on hbo's "realtime with bill maher." take a look. >> paul ryan has made it clear he's going to use trump's right hand to get the things paul ryan wants. paul ryan wants to essentially repeal the 20th century, privatize social security, gut medicare, gut medicaid, gut food stamps, turn everything into a fistful of vouchers, vouchers to go to school when you'll have to pay for because ms. devos wants to privatize it, a voucher to buy health insurance, good luck if it's not enough to pay for a policy that will cover you if you're really sick. always a pleasure. up next, journalist and activist
on-the-record response is at tomorrow's white house press briefing for what had happened here. >> right. and obviously, this is a lot of media naval gazing. we are not supposed to be the story. so, paul, i want to switch gears and get on the record about what's taking place with russia, the interesting words of outgoing chair of the oversight committee, republican darrell issa, one of the president's bigger supporters in congress, is now joining the congress of republicans that want an investigation into alleged ties between donald trump and any of his campaign officials to russia. here's what he had to say on "realtime with bill maher." >> you're right that you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee. you're going to need to use the special prosecutor's statute and office. now, we have to work with them. we don't have to trust them. and we need to investigate their activities, and we need to do it because they are bad people. >> so, that is really attention-grabbing from darrell issa. paul, do you see a scenario