REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Among the guests scheduled for this new distance-appropriate edition of Bill Maher’s backyard talk show, one in particular is perfectly timed, given the week’s news events: Larry Wilmore, the former Daily Show “Senior Black Correspondent” was canceled much too soon in 2016. Larry, have anything to say about the continuing demonstrations, or the push to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, or anything else? Wilmore did an amazing and passionate segment, in 2015 on The Nightly Show (pictured), about the inescapable and inexcusable racism behind the Confederate flag, so expect, among other things, a righteous “I told you so.” Speaking of which: Also this week, Joe Biden made national news, during an interview with current Daily Show host Trevor Noah, when he gave a serious and thoughtful answer to Noah’s hypothetical question: What if President Trump loses the election yet refuses to step down? It’s a question Maher has been asking for a long, long time now, of his viewers as well as his guests – and now, finally, others are taking that question as seriously as Maher has. For those two topics alone, tonight’s Real Time is a must.