Real Time with Bill Maher: Fran Lebowitz - Giuliani and Racism (HBO)

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Bill Maher, Fran Lebowitz and panelists Rob Reiner, Elahe Izadi and Bill Nye discuss the underlying racism of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giulini's comments about President Obama.
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[@jennifer801]

From 5 years ago and this still holds up.

[@ArtGirl82]

If only they knew then what we know now. Although that $1.3 billion Dominion lawsuit goes a long way to making me feel better about the whole Giuliani situation.

[@ihatezgoogle6264]

Yeah if you’re some millionaire writer mensch

[@weantoine]

YES love her alot

[@mauricioh7376]

Astounding how it holds up like the great wall.

[@-HRH]

Fran is a visionary. She was talking about this before it was fashionable 💪

[@fquint6468]

I love the way she speaks with her hands lol, I love her so much!

[@weantoine]

Yup that is the jewish trademark. I outta know:)

[@laceybanter5937]

2021 and I would say Fran was right on. Overt racism

[@1984isnotamanual]

From who?

[@wdh47211]

Love Fran Lebowitz....she's the only sensible one in my world.

[@angangieangela5216]

Fran finds the elephant in the room and insists everyone address it. 💯🥰💯

[@kagewilliams4475]

Fran Lebowitz is the best guest any talkshow has ever had!

[@kentdunne1320]

Oh how I do agree!

[@jamesbarlow6423]

Are you kidding? The talkshow died in 1982! Look at Jack Paar and Tom Snyder.

[@katwashere194]

Fran basically describing what is going on TODAY. She’s a visionary

[@theresabrown8087]

"I'm not explaining me to you. I'm explaining them to you." Fran Lebowitz is a genius.

[@theresabrown8087]

As soon as one starts calling names...they've lost. Oh well. Take good care. :-)

[@HardColdFacts]

Theresa Brown As soon as one starts telling black people facts they are "racist". There, I fixed it for you. Enjoy being represented by Rev Al and being a victim!

[@davidanthonystone5165]

Love you Fran. You should be the mayor of N Y C

[@TheUrszulat]

Lebowitz is a national treasure.

[@ThunderAppeal]

Lebowtiz is a charictature of herself.

[@Lolabelle59]

Yes, she is.

[@josephhertzberg2734]

Truly

[@denvergrady1078]

instablaster

[@shieldsup2076]

Fran has always been on point.

[@mark-davidchandler5895]

I love the way Maher and Lebowitz play off each other. They're like a great old married couple!

[@ThunderAppeal]

Sickening.

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

So true. (I mean a fun old married couple.)

[@annlanders978]

Fran Lebowitz is the smartest person on that show - period.

[@HardColdFacts]

Liberals see a big pair of glasses and think they are smart.

[@thielees]

Little did they know what would happen in November 2016

[@bahhumbug9824]

Or January 2021

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

Time for Fran to come back on Real Time.

[@ZariaLuvs1D]

I was thinking that same thing earlier today

[@78625amginE]

No. No flying for Fran. We need her Covid free

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

@@78625amginE Ah, good point.

[@bahhumbug9824]

Meh, She doesn't need Bill. She's got her own show on Netflix that's being directed by Martin Scorsese.

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

@@bahhumbug9824 Right, but I miss her current comments on the world!

[@wlcoston]

2021 here 🙋🏽‍♀️... this clip is hilarious with what we know now LOLOL

[@newyorkkitty8307]

right! other than her thinking trump wouldn’t be president 🥴 fran’s always been knowin

[@JasonGafar]

Fran Lebowitz comes across as such a down-to-earth person. Hugely intelligent and easy going at the same time. Love to her.

[@JdTV79]

Watching this in May of 2021, and it feels like watching "Giuliani: The origin story" like if it was "The Joker", the story of an apparently normal guy who ends up becoming a dangerous psychopath.

[@QueerlyBeloved386]

I'd love to hear what Fran has to say about Giuliani now.

[@TitoTimTravels]

"I told you so" ha ha 😎

[@anthonycannon811]

@@TitoTimTravels in all likelihood 😂

[@RaniOsnat]

How correct was she about the racist agenda? Very...

[@truthseeker7001]

@candy svp I hope that was sarcasm ... if not then your perspective on race in modern culture is non-sensical, anti-empirical, showing a severe lack of knowledge in social history, being irrational on how politics is informed by overt and covert racism with partisan bias, and most crucially and dumbfoundingly of all what racism actually is by simple dictionary definition. If your comment was a parody of your typical Trump voting coward who hides their reprehensible views behind a keyboard then bravo! Excellent satire.

[@truthseeker7001]

@candy svp That I can believe. Keep on being sweet, Candy. x

[@truthseeker7001]

@candy svp Oh, did you intend that racism got worse when Trumpers and their forerunners starting labelling Obama as Kenyan not American with Birtherism because of his race? If so I apologise, Candy, and you are right I misread your humour as being legitimate. I guess I was on my guard as the sheer number of racists on KZbin these days is ridiculous and disgusting. The whole lot of Birthers are straight up morons and what I said in my misunderstanding (and again I sincerely apologise, Candy) you could apply to them. Had I got it wrong and you were mocking them for calling Obama Kenyan and not American?

[@TitoTimTravels]

@candy sus Yes. That was when it became acceptable mainstream behavior. Racism has always been around (it is enshrined in our constitution), but for decades they lived under their rocks. Any time they talk about the 'good old days', they mean the 1950s - when women and minorities knew their place. That is what the christian taliban wants to go back to.

[@amnasplaylists]

Why is there a jar of mayonnaise on the table?

[@johnhancock8556]

because of the meathead

[@MFYouTube683]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@audreydakin8130]

Funny, Giuliani is still on the news for saying outrageous things. Fran’s thinking is always ahead of the curve.

[@84Elenai]

As usual with true artists. Fran is unique :)

[@evelynwilliams6242]

I love Reiner's "Meathead" laugh! He's wonderful!

[@tracylf5409]

The panel: Wrong/Kinda Right? Fran: Spot.On. How could she withstand listening to this drivel?!?!?

[@USVIsteve]

Giuliani is becoming more like palin every time he opens his mouth. kind of sad actually

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

Oh, he turned out much worse than the innocuous (by comparison) Sarah Palin.

[@ArtGirl82]

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH That $1.3 billion lawsuit from Dominion will hopefully go a long way in shutting him up for good lol

[@doody244]

Lucille Ball and Barbara Billingsly were famous TV moms of that " perfect era". They both said it was NOT real life. It was suppose to be a fun escape from the harshness of reality. People remember the way it wasn't.

[@schrire39]

Hello from the future. You were right about Giuliani.

[@numerikproductions]

Thank you Fran!!

[@infinightsky]

What a sharp woman!

[@theexplorer7139]

"To them...l" Ah lol I love fran lebowitz. She's hilarious when she's so serious.

[@anthonycannon811]

Yeah I cracked up after that.

[@definingmoments7]

The fact that anyone is making comments like this is troubling. The fact that people in power are making comments like this is very troubling.

[@NotTheRealRogerMurdock]

Current Bill Maher would HATE this Bill Maher.

[@laramartin4824]

This video needs to hit the circuits again, it explains to those who are surprised by the "demise" of Guiliani, that he has in fact always been who he is today. Taking America back to the "Great Again" times in Trump´s racist agenda fit right into his own MO.

[@mllerref]

If only they knew how far Giuliani was about to go off the rails once Trump got ahold of him. This conversation seems quaint after all the racist crazy we've just been exposed to...

[@TheMixedHitzChannel]

How in the hell can you say that NYC has gotten worse? In the 80s the city was like modern day Detroit..

[@royalzak2670]

At least it was cheap back then.

[@1337asader]

that was an idiot ranting that

[@royalzak2670]

***** Too many hipsters and the rents are crazy. Lets be honest though, white folks have ruined the city; they're everywhere, busking on the subway, pretending to be poor and hip, hanging around in ridiculously expensive cafe's as they mouth off to the waitress who didn't put enough soy in their coffee. Its so sad....

[@robinsss]

***** but it's safer than the in the 70's i'd rather have a suburban city that's safe than an urban one that's unsafe

[@power823]

***** only true new yorkers can understand that. you can't buy cool.

[@invicta1313]

Of course these people are stuck in the 50s. That was one of the best times in living memory to be a white, Christian, heterosexual male of average intelligence. Anyone else...not so much.

[@thomasgriffiths8046]

Fran Leibowitz is the best.

[@The1ONEGOD]

are you serious? he is a leftard dick

[@edwardbernayse6665]

can't stand that phony bitch. i'd love to debate her over bernie sanders and his policies and question her about her ties to the clintons. she's just throwing a tantrum because she didn't get her golden age the way she expected when hillary lost the election and now just wants show cowardice and a lack of character and blame bernie instead of blame the fact that the DNC handpicked hillary who nobody liked except her because of her ties to the clintons. bill maher should drill her on that. i know i would've if i was on that panel. that bitch would really walk away from the show hating me after i got done with her and i'd be glad.

[@stuartlee6622]

Thomas Griffiths And you are a lesbian

[@JerzyFeliksKlein]

he also has an infomercial have you seen this? who does? Giuliani, he has an infomercial for what? I don't watch the whole thing, I just see he has an infomercial I flip This is how much she adds to the discussion - absolutely nothing. Give yourself a big warm tap on the back for flipping the channel when you see a Giulliani's infomercial and for not voting for him or Bloomberg. Good on ya.

[@AroundSun]

you mean the worse

[@DasZuckerhaus]

how is this 6 (!) year old conversation so contemporary ?

[@chrismorgan7234]

Was Fran Lebowitz in "The Incredibles"?

[@aliciamehl6179]

They based that character on Fran.

[@euanuglowisdead]

No that character was based on Edith Head

[@ABel-oi5kv]

No ....She was in Austin Powers as : Frau Farbissina🙂

[@LaMerryMary]

Linda Hunt for me, more than Fran.

[@philippapay4352]

Not unlike Fran, when I lived in L.A. for a period of time I went from hating L.A. and hating being stuck somewhere that I hated to loving my hating of it then I moved to San Francisco. Kismet.

[@Rockerlady]

Why did you hate it? What city did you come from and why were you here?

[@philippapay4352]

@@Rockerlady I had to live there due to work obligations and it was really a huge culture shock to live in a place, urban or rural, where I could not walk from where I lived to work and then to church and then to dinner and then to a movie and then home again. I was used to a more European type of what one might call a "walking city." I always laughed because we worked a few blocks from the Brown Derby and people insisted upon driving there for drinks after work. I did eventually discover its many delights, then moved.

[@anachristina9543]

We need more people like her in the world

[@katnic8030]

Fascinating going back to this in 2021. Giuliani saying something racist was getting applause lines.... let’s hope our ongoing Giuliani nightmare can finally end.

[@josephhertzberg2734]

My, my. How far we have fallen since this time...

[@abbymitchell1660]

Hold on... Bill Nye the Science Guy!!

[@CRAZY4BEINGCRAZY]

FYI Americans are not colonists. There immigrants. You only say colonist to make yourselves seem different from the world but then hypocritically call others immigrants.

[@TitoTimTravels]

We were part of various European colonies - how can we be anything but colonists? (I say 'we' but am only 2nd generation American myself). 😎

[@DebraClinton]

Bill asks "What gets the applause lines?" with Republicans. One of the biggest applause lines in the 2010 Republican primaries was when Ron Paul was asked "What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?" (Wolf Blitzer asked). And when several people yelled, "Let him die!" the audience erupted in applause. THAT's what kind of person votes for Republicans.

[@Wildfan-sg3fh]

In all fairness, the scenario was that the young man was healthy and made a good living. He could afford health insurance, but he simply didn't think he needed it. Which is a silly reason to not buy insurance. I don't imagine that I'm gonna have a car accident any time soon. But it's still good to have it. Ron Paul was smeared by his knee jerk opposition on that one.

[@jomocheatham]

Ouch!

[@joeblack2950]

It's old age and senile hits Giuliani like a freight train.

[@sandrahunter5904]

😲 OMG. I believe Fran.

[@ridge7524]

Fran is correct

[@SweetSpot909]

his shows are always interesting. Love his show.

[@SatiricalSpartan]

Without context (I havent watched the whole show yet) ,I am very curious about the jar of mayo.

[@ChristlicherKrieger3]

Seeing Bill Nye is like spotting Santa Claus.

[@artofmusic303]

I don't understand why Maher in this segment is trying to find some kind of logical explanation for GOP rhetoric. There is no logic; it's all just button-pushing. They toss words around because focus groups have shown them to have emotional content. That's all they have any more.

[@asianlevelpersuasion3761]

Go Fran!

[@JJMHigner]

You know, discussions seemed alot more calm before Trump came long, even at this time. Just saying.

[@ceridwen04]

About colonialism I don't know what Giuliani meant by that but I just wanted to put in that you should stop considering yourselves as "the colonies". A part from the fact that you were never colonies like the indians or africans were (at least you were not considered sub-human by the British) but since then you've become colonialists in more ways than one: toward native americans but also towards other countries. The meaning of modern colonization does not involve necessarily the control of the territory. Western countries, US ahead, have butted in other countries government and political affair to gain their own interests, see the Panama channel, but also rights to local materials; we decided what they should cultivate to satisfy our markets; with low pay for them and destoying often their cultures. And we didn't stop at supporting accomodating dictatorships to do that. Colonialism is not completely dead.

[@1984isnotamanual]

Yet when we want to remove one of those dictators we supported, one of the worst one of them, Saddam Hussein, you are against it right? And should the US not have any interest in a Panama Canal they helped build? Also how did we “destroy” Panamanian culture? It seems they get a lot of money from that canal no?

[@WorldConquerer2295]

Fran Lebowitz here seems like a contrarian for the sake of being one. Crime in NY is the lowest now since 1963. I can't understand how it's possibly worse now.

[@HardColdFacts]

Because she implied it was getting too white. She hates white people.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

HardColdFacts yeah that's what she was saying pffftttt.

[@sebastianhanks2146]

HardColdFacts Ya know, she could just be wrong. Do you know what that word means, little one? It's when someone thinks, says or does something... and it is not factual or appropriate. Now that you have the basic idea of what 'wrong' means, let's go ahead and talk about what exactly she hates about white people. Pretty sure whichever mass of people is getting wrongfully shot is going to get the liberal attention. We tend to do our best to help people who are struggling rather than the rich or the influential. Fact is that far too many men, women, and children are being shot by the police. And most of them are black. And way too many of them are unarmed/handcuffed/posing no actual threat. So again, say she hates white people. She may not be correct (never been to NY, idgaf what the crime is like) but you little boy are just makin' shit up.

[@HardColdFacts]

Black people commit by far the most crime but liberals hate to admit it because they want to portray them as victims. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[@qhsperson]

Zapp Rogerstein Plenty of well-off and even monied people commit crimes--it's just that the more money you have, the more likely you are to get away with your crime. I.e., Wall Street.

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

We need not forget. Pre-trump, it was viewed as unusual for a Republican to make an outrageous statement, that wasn’t at least, immediately walked back.

[@musetutor9778]

NYC should do what Barcelona did last few years- made it more if a pedestrian city. Makes it safer and community driven. This was best panel ever. 5 years passed and Bill's show has gotten to be a platform for conspiracy theorists...

[@itchyscratchy1870]

Giuliani is filling the void since Michelle Bachman is gone...

[@MFYouTube683]

Oh my God. Our worst export ever, Switzerland 🇨🇭 apologises. What a piece of work, Palin sounds like an articulate scholar next to her.

[@SandyRiverBlue]

My theory is that either he had a stroke that affected his prefrontal cortex at some point in the late 70s, or, and I lean more towards this one, he's the type of sociopath that spends hours in front his mirrors perfecting human emotions (meaning that he has always been this way he just doesn't have a reason to pretend anymore).

[@STICKITINYOUREAR]

Here we are 6 yrs later and Giuliani has had his law degree suspended. YES !

[@hisomeonetrackingmuch1309]

The lady in the blue dress has a very good point about media attention, that we would do well to also not forget

[@jeffrey6244]

I never thought I'd agree with that chain-smoking troll Liebowitz, but this time she nailed it.

[@MUSICOBLISS]

| ♡ Fran

[@michelleahern-crane4570]

ATTN. MARC MARON / WTF PODCAST: CAN WE GET FRAN TO STAY IN L.A. LONG ENOUGH TO BE A WTF GUEST?

[@samchapple6363]

Thank you for sharing

[@philster611-ih8te]

Some pretty intellectual heavy weights on that panel..

[@emiliog.4432]

They had no idea at this time that Guiliani was actually insane.

[@geinikan1kan]

Lebowitz hits the nail on the head here. It is worse to call someone a racist than to be a racist because the minute you call someone out on racism you will be painted as "politically correct." Bush Sr. started using the term PC to silence political discussion in the 1980s, and it has now become a very effective name to silence political thinking.

[@geinikan1kan]

***** Did you listen to this video? I am replying to a point made in the video. The point is not that it is OK to be racist. The point was that when people try to denounce racism they are in turn accused of being PC and shut down. So, ironically, the person who calls out the racist is silenced and criticized, while the racist is escapes criticism. No sheltered life here.

[@geinikan1kan]

You do not agree with me. Fine. Let it go. Do you have a job? Work to do? You don't agree with some fucking random poster (me) and spill your heart out repeating the same high school logic as a million other wannabe neocons. Couldn't care less for your contrarian shite.

[@geinikan1kan]

defend from what? Fox News? What's the point?

[@geinikan1kan]

***** Your comments are plagiarized Fox news copy. Lemmings? You mean the Walt Disney nature movie where the director tossed lemmings over a cliff to stage species suicide? You actually believe the lemming story? Who the fuck uses lol anymore?

[@purpandorange]

+geinikan1kan LOL here is the SJW who thinks "denouncing racism" means "Silencing anyone with a different opinion than you". Go back to your safe space.

[@rachelbouw9587]

No talk of the crime rate in NYC?

[@wendyknox-leet1034]

So brilliant!

[@carlospazdespierta]

That lady Fran Lebowitz spoke some TRUTH! I wanna hear more of her.

[@wheelinthesky300]

She's more of a guy than a "lady".

[@wyliekat32]

This guy put the emergency response center in the same building hit on 9-11, AFTER it was hit by a previous terrorist attack AND was told by EVERYBODY not to put it there, for that very reason. He did, and emergency services was shortchanged when they were needed the most. (9/11 Commission Report) He should be in the trash heap of history.

[@RLDenham]

This clip really did not age well wow.

[@09rja]

I don't think anyone misses the racism of the 1950's. I think what people miss is not looking over your shoulder in places like New York (or any other big city) every 10 seconds. (Ironic that NY came up in the conversation.)

[@junkintwin]

Wow. Six years later. And look what’s going on today. But serious question... what’s with the Mayo lol

[@mjistomczuk8936]

i love fran! so smart! mwah!!!

[@howardbiel5290]

I like that bill can’t bullshit her

[@flatitata]

Thank you for calling it what it is

[@triciaesposito5790]

Fran Lebowitz is everything that is great in this world. She speaks the truth without fear...She's everything

[@michaeldoubiotis9071]

What is mayonnaise doing on the table?

[@psh1147]

Interesting to watch this in Jan 2021 after Jan 6

[@daveyhouston]

Woodrow wilson was in the klan not obama

[@sjoyce100]

Americans are the colonialists. everyone else who stayed in old Europe are not.

[@jasonrobbins837]

good point

[@jasonrobbins837]

Native Americans colonized...um...nothing. That statement is pretty ridiculous.

[@jasonrobbins837]

what or whom did Native Americans colonize???

[@jasonrobbins837]

perhaps you meant, "settle land." maybe you aren't that good with English words.

[@theforestero]

The old world, european hangers ons...yes....

[@intorpere]

I have no idea who this woman is, but she seems to know what she's talking about.

[@maryfarrell4442]

Nothing of substance! Nothing they say counts! All for nothing!

[@contactkeithstack]

"he went to white schools" fml

[@sepehrdaghbandan7964]

Fran lebowitz was and is spot on, till the election part.

[@kevincruz7958]

I want that lady to be my grandma

[@thoseportlandstreets]

LOVE FRAN!!!!!! NEED HER TO BE MAYOR PLEASE!!!

[@brianjones9487]

Fran Lebowitz is literally the problem and the reason why Trump won.

[@JerzyFeliksKlein]

Fran Lebowitz: he also has an infomercial have you seen this? Bill Maher: who does? Fran Lebowitz: Giuliani, he has an infomercial Bill Maher: for what? Fran Lebowitz: I don't watch the whole thing, I just see he has an infomercial I flip This is how much she adds to the discussion - absolutely nothing. Give yourself a big, warm tap on the back for flipping the channel when you see a Giulliani's infomercial and for not voting for him or Bloomberg. Good on ya.

[@brianjones9487]

Well said sir. She is the literal problem with our politics. The way she goes about things. I'm glad she'll be dead soon.

[@cordeliakates6044]

@@JerzyFeliksKlein you are just an idiot!

[@JerzyFeliksKlein]

@@cordeliakates6044 Very eloquent of you

[@bobbyhoffman5967]

Little did they know Rudy was just getting started.

[@weantoine]

THEY KNEW and is has been their concern. It was AMERICA that was not watching. These guys are all saying TOLD YA

[@bobbyhoffman5967]

@@weantoine I was being sarcastic. But I don't agree with you. New Yorkers knew the real Rudy from the moment he entered public life. America knew the Rudy of 9/11. That Rudy was the glue we thought held NYC together. Before 9/11, I doubt 95% of the country could have picked him out of a lineup. And I'm being conservative. There is no I told you so moment because New Yorkers had held him in high regard because of his leadership during 9/11. We rooted for Rudy because we stood in support of NYC. He was saying all the right things and New Yorkers agreed. We were united as Americans and followed NYC's lead.

[@Tehgoat]

MY FRIEND, is about to illegally download this show. Please don't label him a criminal but we can't get it here in Ireland.

[@Tehgoat]

***** explain

[@gamesman0118]

***** And you are here because?

[@theforestero]

March on airports.....occupy airports....

[@sebastianhanks2146]

***** 3 white people and a Jewish woman (I think) sitting around a table talking about how it shouldn't be okay to shoot unarmed people. Must hate whites. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? This must be the logic you use to convince yourself that every woman who doesn't like you is a lesbian. Get help.

[@Tehgoat]

***** What's wrong with Jewish people? and how many of them are practicing? Bill Maher is half Catholic and certainly not religious, perhaps you know that but only see the Semitic as a problem. If so, then you have the problem. I could tell you about how intolerance impacted the people of Ireland and beyond but i get the feeling that I would be wasting my time.

[@lauraalskog]

This could have been filmed yesterday for how relevant this is

[@rsr789]

NYC is way way worse then it used to be, and that's why I no longer live there.

[@AroundSun]

Worse with regards to crime? Not at all. Worse as far as the mental disorder known as liberalism? Absolutely!

[@billielittle]

Fran Lebowitz is one smart lady.

[@TheTruthMattersTheLastSt-nu9xv]

Vanity fair is what kind of newspaper ?

[@PatrickMC]

Love frans sense of humor and wit, but can’t stand anything else about her. coastal elite hypocrite.

[@cordeliakates6044]

Just sick of these ignorant comments going to stop now.

[@marcdorfner8446]

These old Republicans want the good ole' days because that's when they had guts and nuts.