- List of The Daily Show guests
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This is a list of noteworthy guests on The Daily Show. As of his appearance on February 16th 2011, Brian Williams had made 14 appearances as an interview guest. Prior to Williams, the most frequently appearing guest on the program was Sen. John McCain with 13 visits. McCain was introduced by Jon Stewart as the "most frequently appearing guest" during McCain's appearance on 16 August 2007.
Lists of all guests by year
The following lists contain a list of guests for that particular year as well as the project (book, album, film, etc.) they came to promote.
- 2011
Politicians
Heads of state, heads of government, deputy heads of state or their spouses
- Barack Obama, current President of the United States
- Joe Biden, current Vice President of the United States
- Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States
- Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
- Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, current United States Secretary of State and wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
- Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan
- Abdullah II, King of Jordan
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
- Rosalynn Carter wife of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter
- Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
- Michelle Obama, wife of President of the United States Barack Obama
Members of the United States Cabinet
- Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State
- John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
- James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor
- Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy
- Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
- Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State
- Ray LaHood, United States Secretary of Transportation
- Gary Locke, United States Secretary of Commerce
- Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy
- Janet Napolitano, United States Secretary of Homeland Security
- Paul O'Neill, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State
- Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor
- Tom Ridge, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
- Donald Rumsfeld, former United States Secretary of Defense
- Ken Salazar, United States Secretary of the Interior -- First Obama cabinet member to be guest during time in office.
- Kathleen Sebelius, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Margaret Spellings, United States Secretary of Education -- The only Bush cabinet level guest to appear while holding office.[1]
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Members of the United States Senate
- Evan Bayh, (D) Indiana
- Joe Biden, (D) Delaware, former
- Barbara Boxer, (D) California
- Bill Bradley, (D) New Jersey, former
- Lincoln Chafee, (I) Rhode Island, former
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) New York, former
- Norm Coleman, (R) Minnesota, former
- Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota, former
- Chris Dodd, (D) Connecticut
- Bob Dole, (R) Kansas, former
- John Edwards, (D) North Carolina, former
- Russell Feingold, (D) Wisconsin, former
- Al Franken, (D) Minnesota
- Gary Hart, (D) Colorado, former
- Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R) Texas
- Ted Kennedy, (D) Massachusetts, former
- Bob Kerrey, (D) Nebraska, former
- John Kerry, (D) Massachusetts
- Joseph Lieberman, (I) Connecticut
- Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi, former
- John McCain, (R) Arizona
- Bob Menendez, (D) New Jersey
- Zell Miller, (D) Georgia, former
- Carol Moseley-Braun, (D) Illinois, former
- Ben Nelson, (D) Nebraska
- Barack Obama, (D) Illinois, former
- Rand Paul, (R) Kentucky
- Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont
- Rick Santorum, (R) Pennsylvania, former
- Charles Schumer, (D) New York
- Arlen Specter, (D), Pennsylvania
- Dick Durbin, (D) , Illinois
Members of the United States House of Representatives
- Henry Bonilla, (R)
- Barney Frank, (D), Chairman of the United States House Committee on Financial Services
- Dick Gephardt, (D)
- Newt Gingrich, (R) former Speaker
- Dennis Kucinich, (D)
- Ron Paul, (R)
- Nancy Pelosi, (D) former Speaker
Other Federal Officers and Advisers
- John R. Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Michael D. Brown, former administrator of Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson
- Andrew Card, former White House Chief of Staff
- Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Karen Hughes, former executive adviser to President George H. W. Bush
- Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary
- Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary
- Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary
- Richard Perle, former Assistant United States Secretary of Defense
- Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary
- George Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency
Governors
- Evan Bayh, former Governor of Indiana
- Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois
- Jon Corzine, former Governor of New Jersey
- Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
- Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
- Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas
- Bob Kerrey, former Governor of Nebraska
- James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey
- Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota
- Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
- Marc Racicot, former Governor of Montana and former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
- William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts
- Tim Kaine, former Governor of Virginia, and chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Mayors
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City
- Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York City
Other political guests
- Ali Allawi, former Minister of Defense of Iraq
- Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore
- Pat Buchanan, political commentator, unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President, 1992 and 1996; unsuccessful Reform Party nominee for president in 2000
- Wesley Clark, retired U.S. Army general, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004
- Bill Kristol, political commentator, founder/editor of The Weekly Standard
- Ed Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Ken Mehlman, campaign manager for George W. Bush in 2004 and former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, four-time unsuccessful Green and independent candidate for President
- Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004
- Howard Stern, producer and radio talk show host
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African anti-apartheid leader, human rights spokesman
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post journalists who broke Watergate scandal; authors
- Howard Zinn, historian, political activists
- John Zogby, pollster, founder and president/CEO of Zogby International
- Elizabeth Edwards, deceased wife of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards
- Jenny Sanford, ex-wife of former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford
Journalists
- Christiane Amanpour, ABC host of This Week
- Reza Aslan, Middle East Analyst for CBS News
- Maziar Bahari, Newsweek
- Fred Barnes, Fox News analyst
- Tom Brokaw, former NBC Nightly News anchor
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, author
- Anderson Cooper, CNN Correspondent and host ofAnderson Cooper 360
- Bob Costas, NBC Sports commentator
- Larry King, former host of Larry King Live
- Katie Couric, CBS Evening News anchor
- Thomas Friedman, nationally syndicated columnist
- Christopher Hitchens, columnist and author
- Peter Jennings, late ABC World News Tonight anchor
- Matt Lauer, Co-anchor of NBC's The Today Show
- Lara Logan, CBS News war correspondent.
- Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show
- Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews
- Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker
- Bill Moyers, former host of PBS's Now
- Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News
- Jeremy Paxman, host of the BBC's Newsnight
- Dan Rather, former CBS Evening News anchor
- Al Roker, weatherman of NBC's Today Show
- Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent
- Barbara Walters, conductor of The View
- Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News anchor
- Fareed Zakaria, former editor of Newsweek International
- David Gregory, NBC
Actors and actresses
- Ben Affleck, actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Gillian Anderson
- Julie Andrews
- Rowan Atkinson
- Alan Alda
- Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
- Adrian Brody, Academy Award-winning actor
- Pierce Brosnan
- David Boreanaz
- Sandra Bullock, Academy Award-winning actress
- Steve Carell
- Sacha Baron Cohen, once as Borat and once out of character
- George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor
- Daniel Craig, current James Bond
- David Cross
- Russell Crowe, Academy Award-winning Actor
- Matt Damon, Academy Award-winning actor
- Claire Danes
- Cameron Diaz
- David Duchovny
- Carmen Electra
- Colin Farrell
- Colin Firth, Academy Award-winning actor
- Harrison Ford, Academy Award nominee
- Ron Howard, actor and Academy Award-winning director
- Jodie Foster, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
- Jamie Foxx, Academy Award-winning actor
- Anne Hathaway, Academy Award nominee
- Dustin Hoffman, two-time Academy Award-winning actor
- Samuel L. Jackson, Academy Award nominee
- Angelina Jolie, Academy Award-winning actress
- Richard Gere
- Ricky Gervais
- Adam Goldberg
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Topher Grace
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Academy Award nominee
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, Academy Award nominee
- Keira Knightley, Academy Award nominee
- Denis Leary, comedian
- Heath Ledger, Academy Award-winning actor
- Ashton Kutcher
- John Malkovich, Academy Award nominee
- Rachel McAdams
- Ian McKellen, Academy Award nominee
- Dennis Miller, comedian
- Clive Owen, Academy Award nominee
- Robert Patrick
- Dev Patel
- Matthew Perry
- Natalie Portman, Academy Award-winning actress
- Dennis Quaid
- John C. Reilly, Academy Award nominee
- Christina Ricci
- Seth Rogen
- Paul Rudd
- Adam Sandler
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Ben Stiller
- Meryl Streep, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
- Christopher Walken, Academy Award-winning actor
- Bruce Willis
- Elijah Wood
- Mick Foley, Pro Wrestler and writer
- Seth Green
Musicians
- Tori Amos
- Arcade Fire, who performed on the show
- Jon Bon Jovi
- Coldplay, who performed songs from their 2008 album, Viva La Vida
- Jack's Mannequin, who performed on the show
- Jakob Dylan
- Justin Bieber
- The Goo Goo Dolls
- Dave Grohl
- Wynton Marsalis
- John Mellencamp
- RZA
- Lupe Fiasco, who performed on the show with Skylar Grey
- Richie Sambora
- Slash
- Bruce Springsteen, who performed on the show
- Ringo Starr, who performed on the show with Ben Harper and Relentless7
- Tenacious D, who performed on the show
- They Might Be Giants, who also perform The Daily Show theme song, penned by Bob Mould
- Tom Waits, who performed on the show
- The White Stripes, who performed on the show
- Neil Young
Businessmen
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.org
- Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Group
Writers
References
- ^ Toppo, Greg (2007-05-22). "Education put to the humor test". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-21-spellings-daily-show_N.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
External links
- Guest Appearances for The Daily Show at The Internet Movie Database
- A list of The Daily Show guests at ShunTV.net (from Jon Stewart's takeover to January 6, 2005)
- Upcoming guest list for The Daily Show at interbridge.com
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