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Fans of HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher, which is now on its 19th season, may have tuned in last night expecting to watch Episode 6. After yet another busy and eventful week in politics, including Cancun Cruz (Sen. Ted Cruz) leaving a powerless and freezing Texas to go on a family vacation, did Maher get to deliver his usual comical political insults?
While thousands of his own Texas state citizens were left without heat and power, Sen. Cruz made a poor decision to fly down to Cancun for a few days before intense public scrutiny forced him to come home and try to damage control on Fox News, claiming he was being a “good father” and flying his daughters down for safety with no intention of staying in Mexico himself.
This occurred all while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who doesn’t even live in Texas) raised over $2M for the statewide crisis and Beto O’Rourke set up a phone bank for seniors to make sure they were ok and did everything he could to pitch in. Late night television, in typical fashion, laced into Sen. Cruz.
There’s also still the pandemic that’s happening and a bolstered vaccine rollout from the Biden administration in addition to the Republican Party trying to figure out where it stands in the aftermath of the Donald Trump impeachment trial. Should viewers have expected Bill Maher to weigh in on these topics and more last night?
Unfortunately, that did not occur. There was no new episode of Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, February 19. Maher joins a list of other late night shows such as The Late Show and Late Night that took the week off for President’s Day.
HBO instead reran last week’s episode featuring an interview with Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger and a panel that included Markos Moulitsas and Steve Schmidt.
Thus far, there have been five new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher in season 19. The popular HBO show should return to the air as scheduled next week.
Michael is a music and television junkie keen on most things that are not a complete and total bore. You can follow him on Twitter — @Tweetskoor
