List of The Daily Show guests
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
According to the list of frequent guests on the show's website, the most frequently appearing guest on the program (as of 2008-02-19) is Sen. John McCain with 13 visits as of late May 2008. McCain was introduced by Jon Stewart as the "most frequently appearing guest" during McCain's appearance on 16 August 2007.
Contents |
[edit] List by year
The following lists contain a list of guests for that particular year.
[edit] List by Category
[edit] Politicians
[edit] Presidents, Vice-Presidents or their spouses
- Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States
- Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
- Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
- Al Gore, former Vice-President of the United States
- Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan
[edit] United States Cabinet Secretaries
- 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
- Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State
- 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
- Margaret Spellings, United States Secretary of Education -- The only cabinet level guest to appear while holding office. [1]
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
[edit] Members of the United States Senate
- Joe Biden, (D) Delaware
- Barbara Boxer, (D) California
- Bill Bradley, (D) New Jersey, former
- Lincoln Chafee, (R) Rhode Island, former
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D) New York
- Norm Coleman, (R) Minnesota
- Tom Daschle, (D) South Dakota, former
- Chris Dodd, (D) Connecticut
- Bob Dole, (R) Kansas
- John Edwards, (D) North Carolina, former
- Russell Feingold, (D) Wisconsin
- Gary Hart, (D) Colorado, former
- Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R) Texas
- Ted Kennedy, (D) Massachusetts
- Bob Kerrey, (D) Nebraska (former)
- John Kerry, (D) Massachusetts
- Joseph Lieberman, (D) Connecticut
- Trent Lott, (R) Mississippi
- John McCain, (R) Arizona
- Zell Miller, (D) Georgia, former
- Carol Moseley-Braun, (D) Illinois, former
- Ben Nelson, (D) Nebraska
- Barack Obama, (D) Illinois
- Rick Santorum, (R) Pennsylvania, former
- Charles Schumer, (D) New York
- Arlen Specter, (R), Pennsylvania
[edit] Members of the United States House of Representatives
- Henry Bonilla, (R)
- Dick Gephardt, (D)
- Newt Gingrich, (R) also former Speaker of the House
- Dennis Kucinich, (D)
- Ron Paul, (R)
- Nancy Pelosi, (D), Speaker of the House
[edit] Other Federal Officers and Advisers
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
- Michael D. Brown, former head of FEMA
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson
- Andrew Card, former White House Chief of Staff
- Lynne Cheney, Second Lady of the United States, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney
- Hillary Clinton, former First Lady of the United States wife of former President Bill Clinton
- 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
- 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
- Dana Perino, current White House Press Secretary
[edit] Governors
- Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York
- Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas
- James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey
- 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
[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] Other political guests
- Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore
- Pat Buchanan, (Reform), 2000 U.S. Presidential candidate
- Gen. Wesley Clark-Ret.
- Al Franken, founder of Air America Radio
- Bill Kristol
- 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,U.S. Presidential candidate, 2000, 2004, and 2008
- Rev. Al Sharpton (D) U.S. Presidential Candidate, 2004
- Howard Stern, producer and radio talk show host
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Howard Zinn
- John Zogby, independent pollster
[edit] Journalists
- Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent
- Reza Aslan, Middle East Analyst for CBS News
- Fred Barnes, Fox News analyst
- Tom Brokaw, former NBC Nightly News anchor
- Anderson Cooper, CNN Correspondent and host ofAnderson Cooper 360
- Bob Costas, NBC Sports commentator
- 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
- Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews
- Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker
- Bill Moyers, former host of PBS's Now
- Dan Rather, former CBS Evening News anchor
- Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News
- Al Roker, weatherman of NBC's Today Show
- Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News anchor
- Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International.
- Barbara Walters, conductor of The View.
[edit] Celebrities
[edit] Actors and actresses
- Ben Affleck, Academy Award-winning actor
- Gillian Anderson
- Rowan Atkinson
- Alan Alda, former star of M*A*S*H and The West Wing
- Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
- Adrian Brody
- Pierce Brosnan
- David Boreanaz
- Sandra Bullock
- Steve Carell
- Sacha Baron Cohen, as Borat
- George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor
- Matt Damon, Academy Award-winning actor
- Shannen Doherty
- David Duchovny
- Colin Firth
- Harrison Ford
- Jodie Foster, two-time Academy Award-winning actress
- Jamie Foxx, Academy Award-winning actor
- Dustin Hoffman, two-time Academy Award-winning actor
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Angelina Jolie
- Richard Gere
- Ricky Gervais
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, for 10 Things I Hate About You
- Jake Gyllenhaal, for Rendition
- Keira Knightley
- Denis Leary, comedian
- John Malkovich
- Ian McKellen
- Dennis Miller, comedian
- Clive Owen
- Robert Patrick
- Natalie Portman
- Dennis Quaid
- Christina Ricci
- 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
[edit] Musicians
- The Goo Goo Dolls
- Dave Grohl
- Wynton Marsalis
- John Mellencamp
- Ringo Starr
- Tenacious D
- They Might Be Giants (Giants also currently perform The Daily Show theme song, penned by Bob Mould)
- Tom Waits
- The White Stripes
- Neil Young
[edit] Businessmen
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
- Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.com
[edit] References
- ^ Education put to the humor test. USA Today. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
[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)
- Upcoming guest list for The Daily Show at interbridge.com
|