"Real Time" has earned widespread praise. It has been nominated for more than ten Primetime Emmy Awards and six Writer's Guild awards. In 2007, Maher and his co-producers were awarded the Television Producer of the Year Award in Variety Television by the Producers Guild of America. Maher holds the record for the most Emmy nominations without a win, having been nominated on 22 occasions and not winning once. Eleven of the nominations were for "Politically Incorrect", while nine were for "Real Time". The other two were nominations for two of his HBO comedy specials: "I'm Swiss" and "".