List of The Daily Show guests
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This is a list of guests on The Daily Show as well as the project (book, album, film, etc.) they came to promote. Note that some guests appear without an explicit promotion despite being affiliated with a news agency, etc. The list is incomplete for earlier years; a notice has been placed to indicate beyond which point the list is complete.
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[edit] List by year
The following lists contain a list of guests for that particular year.
[edit] Notable guests
[edit] Notable political guests
[edit] Presidents and vice-presidents
- Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan; Musharraf is the only sitting head of state to have appeared on the show.[1]
- Bill Clinton
- Al Gore
- Jimmy Carter
[edit] Cabinet secretaries and other advisors
- Madeleine Albright, former United States Secretary of State
- John Ashcroft, former Attorney General
- James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
- Richard Clarke, former anti-terrorism advisor
- Karen Hughes
- Ari Fleischer, former Bush White House Press Secretary
- Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State
- Paul O'Neill, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Richard Perle
- Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State (Stewart stated on the show that this was probably the closest he would ever get to the Bush Administration)
- Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor
- Tom Ridge, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the EPA
[edit] Senators
- Joe Biden, (D) Delaware
- Barbara Boxer, (D) California
- Lincoln Chafee, (R) Rhode Island
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) New York
- Norm Coleman, (R) Minnesota
- Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota^
- Chris Dodd, (D) Connecticut
- Bob Dole, (R) Kansas
- John Edwards, (D) North Carolina (announced candidacy for 2004 Presidential Election on the show)
- Gary Hart, (D) Colorado^
- Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R) Texas
- Bob Kerrey, (D) Nebraska^
- John Kerry, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, (D) Massachusetts
- Joseph Lieberman, (D) Connecticut
- Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi
- John McCain, (R) Arizona
- Zell Miller, (D) Georgia^
- Carol Moseley-Braun, (D) Illinois^
- Ben Nelson, (D) Nebraska
- Barack Obama, (D) Illinois
- Rick Santorum, (R) Pennsylvania
- Charles Schumer, (D) New York
- Arlen Specter, (R), Pennsylvania
- Russell Feingold, (D) Wisconsin
- Ted Kennedy, (D) Massachusetts
^ - non-sitting Senator
[edit] Congressmen and Congresswoman
- Henry Bonilla, (R)
- Dick Gephardt, (D)
- Newt Gingrich, (R) also former Speaker of the House
- Dennis Kucinich, (D)
- Nancy Pelosi, (D)
[edit] Mayors
- Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City, NY)
- Rudy Giuliani (former Mayor of New York City, NY)
- Ed Koch (former Mayor of New York City, NY)
[edit] Governors
- Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
- Marc Racicot, former Governor of Montana and former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts
- Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico
- James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey
- Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas
[edit] Other presidential candidates
- Pat Buchanan, presidential candidate in 2000 for the Reform Party
- Gen. Wesley Clark-Ret.
- Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Rev. Al Sharpton
- Ralph Nader
[edit] Other political guests
- Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore
- 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 current chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Michael Moore
- Howard Zinn
- Al Franken
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, simultaneously (unheard-of for the show)
- Independent pollster John Zogby
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
[edit] Notable media celebrities
- Alan Alda, former star of M*A*S*H and The West Wing
- Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent
- Fred Barnes
- Tom Brokaw, former NBC News anchor
- Anderson Cooper, Host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360
- Bob Costas, NBC Sports commentator
- Katie Couric
- Dan Rather, CBS Evening News anchorman
- Thomas Friedman, nationally syndicated columnist
- Peter Jennings^, late ABC News anchor
- Matt Lauer, Host of NBC's Today Show
- Dennis Miller
- Bill Moyers
- Al Roker
- Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News
- Howard Stern (Jon Stewart has also appeared on Stern's radio show)
- Brian Williams, NBC News anchor
^featured in segment
[edit] Notable entertainers
- The White Stripes, rock band; the group's performance on December 1, 2005, made it the show's first official "musical guest."
- Neil Young
- Tenacious D
- They Might Be Giants
[edit] References
- ^ Pervez Musharraf appears on ‘The Daily Show’. MSNBC. Retrieved on February 19, 2007.
[edit] 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)
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