This is a list of The Daily Show guests for 2005.
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| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Paul Giamatti | Sideways |
| January 5 | Don Cheadle | Hotel Rwanda |
| January 6 | Howard Zinn | Voices of a People's History of the United States (ISBN 1-58322-647-8) |
| January 10 | John Grisham | The Broker |
| January 11 | Samuel L. Jackson | Coach Carter |
| January 12 | Dennis Quaid | In Good Company |
| January 13 | Annette Bening | Being Julia |
| January 17 | Brian Ross | None |
| January 18 | Jim Wallis | God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (ISBN 0-06-055828-8) |
| January 19 | Michael Beschloss | None |
| January 20 | Sen. Joe Lieberman | (via satellite) |
| January 24 | Richard Viguerie | America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power (ISBN 1-56625-252-0) |
| January 25 | Seymour Hersh | The New Yorker |
| January 26 | John Leguizamo | Assault on Precinct 13 |
| January 27 | Christine Todd Whitman | It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party... And Bringing the Country Together Again (ISBN 1-59420-040-8) |
| January 31 | Fareed Zakaria | None |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| February 1 | Paula Abdul | American Idol |
| February 2 | Anderson Cooper | Anderson Cooper 360 |
| February 3 | Joe Klein | None |
| February 14 | Redmond O'Hanlon | Trawler (ISBN 1-4000-4275-5) |
| February 15 | Eric Idle | The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America (ISBN 0-06-075864-3) |
| February 16 | Alan Cumming | Son of the Mask |
| February 17 | Mark Mills | The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (ISBN 0-465-03116-1) |
| February 22 | Rachel Weisz | Constantine |
| February 23 | Peter Jennings | Peter Jennings' Reporting UFO's: Seeing is Believing |
| February 24 | Christina Ricci | Cursed |
| February 28 | Ben Nelson | None |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| March 1 | Nancy Soderberg | The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might (ISBN 0-471-78964-X) |
| March 2 | The Rock | Be Cool |
| March 3 | Ari Fleischer | Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House |
| March 7 | Melissa Boyle Mahle | Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 |
| March 8 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams |
| March 9 | Bruce Willis | Hostage |
| March 10 | Paul Krugman | None |
| March 14 | Harry Frankfurt | On Bullshit |
| March 15 | Tom Fenton | Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All |
| March 16 | Al Green | Everything's OK |
| March 17 | Craig Ferguson | The Late Late Show |
| March 21 | Sandra Bullock | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous |
| March 22 | Catherine Keener | The Ballad of Jack and Rose |
| March 23 | Ozzy Osbourne | The Osbournes, Prince of Darkness |
| March 24 | RZA | The Wu-Tang Manual |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| April 4 | Reggie Miller | None |
| April 5 | Thomas L. Friedman | The World Is Flat |
| April 6 | Matthew McConaughey | Sahara |
| April 7 | Drew Barrymore | Fever Pitch |
| April 11 | Byron York | The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (ISBN 1-4000-8238-2) |
| April 12 | Bob Dole | One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (ISBN 0-06-076341-8) |
| April 13 | John Avlon | Independent Nation (ISBN 1-4000-5024-3) |
| April 14 | David Duchovny | House of D |
| April 18 | Robert Reich | Reason (ISBN 1-4000-4221-6) |
| April 19 | Sarah Vowell | Assassination Vacation (ISBN 0-7432-6003-1) |
| April 20 | Dennis Miller | None, but clip shown from Dennis Miller Live |
| April 21 | Reza Aslan | No god but God (ISBN 1-4000-6213-6) |
| April 25 | Floyd Abrams | Speaking Freely (ISBN 0-670-03375-8) |
| April 26 | Ice Cube | XXX: State of the Union |
| April 27 | Christina Hoff Sommers | One Nation Under Therapy (ISBN 0-312-30443-9) |
| April 28 | Steven Levitt | Freakonomics |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| May 2 | Zell Miller | A Deficit of Decency (ISBN 0-9745376-3-2) |
| May 3 | Christiane Amanpour | None |
| May 4 | Martin Short | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood |
| May 5 | Tom Ridge | None |
| May 9 | Kathleen Turner | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| May 10 | Wanda Sykes | Monster-in-Law |
| May 11 | Al Roker | Big Shoes: In Celebration of Dads and Fatherhood (ISBN 1-4013-0171-1) |
| May 12 | Tracey Ullman | Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed |
| May 31 | Gerald Posner | Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection (ISBN 1-4000-6291-8) |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| June 1 | Bo Bice | "Inside Your Heaven"/"Vehicle" single |
| June 2 | Russell Crowe | Cinderella Man |
| June 6 | Newt Gingrich | Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (ISBN 0-312-34298-5) |
| June 7 | Steven Johnson | Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (ISBN 1-57322-307-7) |
| June 8 | Colin Powell | None |
| June 9 | Matt Lauer | |
| June 13 | Larry Diamond | Squandered Victory (ISBN 0-8050-7868-1) |
| June 14 | Will Ferrell | Bewitched |
| June 15 | Flynt Leverett | Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire (ISBN 0-8157-5204-0) |
| June 16 | Kenneth Timmerman | Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran (ISBN 1-4000-5368-4) |
| June 20 | Ringo Starr | Choose Love |
| June 21 | Dwight Yoakam | Blame the Vain |
| June 22 | Bill Moyers | Moyers on America (ISBN 1-4000-9536-0) |
| June 23 | Howard Dean | None |
| June 27 | Hanna Rosin | "God and Country" article in The New Yorker |
| June 28 | Morgan Spurlock | 30 Days and Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America (ISBN 0-399-15260-1) |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| July 11 | Marci Hamilton | God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (ISBN 0-521-85304-4) |
| July 12 | Matt Taibbi | Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season (ISBN 1-56584-891-8) |
| July 13 | Bernard Goldberg | 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America |
| July 14 | Michael Isikoff | None |
| July 18 | Bob Woodward Carl Bernstein |
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (ISBN 0-7432-8715-0) |
| July 19 | Billy Bob Thornton | Bad News Bears |
| July 20 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Natural Resources Defense Council |
| July 21 | Fareed Zakaria | None |
| July 25 | Sen. Rick Santorum | It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (ISBN 1-932236-29-5) |
| July 26 | Diane Lane | Must Love Dogs |
| July 27 | Bob Costas | Costas Now |
| July 28 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Happy Endings |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| August 2 | Sen. Joe Biden | None |
| August 3 | John Crawford | The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq (ISBN 1-57322-314-X) |
| August 4 | Miles O'Brien | American Morning |
| August 8 | Paul Rudd | The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| August 9 | Kate Hudson | The Skeleton Key |
| August 10 | John Hockenberry | |
| August 11 | André Benjamin | Four Brothers |
| August 15 | Steve Carell | The 40-Year-Old Virgin (also confirmed his resignation from TDS) |
| August 16 | Seymour Hersh | Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (ISBN 0-06-095537-6) |
| August 17 | John Irving | Until I Find You: A Novel (ISBN 1-4000-6383-3) |
| August 18 | John H. Richardson, Jr. | My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir (ISBN 0-06-051035-8) |
| August 22 | Chris Wallace | |
| August 23 | Rachel Weisz | The Constant Gardener |
| August 24 | Sen. Trent Lott | Herding Cats: A Life in Politics (ISBN 0-06-059931-6) |
| August 25 | Christopher Hitchens | Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (ISBN 0-06-059896-4) |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| September 6 | Dr. Marc Siegel | False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear (ISBN 0-471-67869-4) |
| September 7 | Samuel L. Jackson | The Man |
| September 8 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams |
| September 12 | Chris Mooney | The Republican War on Science (ISBN 0-465-04675-4) |
| September 13 | Kurt Vonnegut | A Man Without a Country |
| September 14 | Dr. Edward J. Larson Dr. William A. Dembski Ellie Crystal |
Panel Discussion on Evolution |
| September 15 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Proof |
| September 20 | Alan Alda | Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (ISBN 1-4000-6409-0) |
| September 21 | Ricky Gervais | Extras |
| September 22 | George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck |
| September 26 | Dr. Irwin Redlener | The Children's Help Fund |
| September 27 | Viggo Mortensen | A History of Violence |
| September 28 | Jeff Garlin | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| September 29 | Sen. Chuck Schumer |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| October 3 | David Rakoff | Don't Get Too Comfortable (ISBN 0-385-51036-5) |
| October 4 | Cameron Diaz | In Her Shoes |
| October 5 | Sen. John Edwards | |
| October 6 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote |
| October 17 | Dolly Parton | Those Were The Days |
| October 18 | Bill O'Reilly | The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families (ISBN 0-06-054424-4) |
| October 19 | Louis Freeh | My FBI |
| October 20 | Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson | Doom |
| October 24 | William Kristol | The Weekly Standard |
| October 25 | Al Franken | The Truth (with jokes) |
| October 26 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
| October 27 | Janis Karpinski | One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story |
| October 31 | D.L. Hughley | Weekends at the D.L. |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| November 1 | Sen. Barbara Boxer | A Time to Run |
| November 2 | Mike Wallace | Between You and Me: A Memoir |
| November 3 | Robert Ray | None |
| November 7 | Sen. Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance |
| November 8 | Sen. John McCain | Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember |
| November 9 | Keira Knightley | Pride and Prejudice |
| November 10 | Chris Elliott | The Shroud of the Thwacker |
| November 14 | Martha Stewart | The Apprentice: Martha Stewart |
| November 15 | Rosario Dawson | Rent |
| November 16 | John Hodgman | The Areas of My Expertise |
| November 17 | Richard Clarke | The Scorpion's Gate |
| November 28 | Adrien Brody | King Kong |
| November 29 | Peggy Noonan | John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father (ISBN 0-670-03748-6) |
| November 30 | Rep. Nancy Pelosi | None |
| Date | Guest | Promotion |
|---|---|---|
| December 1 | The White Stripes | Get Behind Me Satan |
| December 5 | Jimmy Carter | Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis |
| December 6 | Michelle Yeoh | Memoirs of a Geisha |
| December 7 | David McCullough | 1776 |
| December 8 | Ken Auletta | The New Yorker |
| December 13 | Howard Stern | The Howard Stern Show |
| December 14 | Tom Brokaw | Tom Brokaw Reports: To War and Back |
| December 15 | Sarah Jessica Parker | The Family Stone |
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