Sean Spicer, Bill Maher Square Off on ‘Real Time’

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Former press secretary for President Trump a guest on HBO show

White House press secretary Sean Spicer at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
(Image credit: Gage Skidmore)

Sean Spicer is a guest on Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO Friday, Oct. 29. Spicer was the press secretary for President Trump and authored the book Radical Nation: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America. 

Real Time also streams on HBO Max. 

The episode’s in-studio panel discussion includes Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer at The Atlantic, and Sen. Chris Coons.  

Before working in the White House, Spicer was director of communications for the Republican National Committee, then was its chief strategist.

Spicer hosts Spicer & Co. weekdays on Newsmax. The show launched early in 2020.

It is the 19th season for Real Time With Bill Maher. The series has been renewed through 2024. 

The executive producers of Real Time are Bill Maher, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen and Billy Martin. Paul Casey directs.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.