The Daily Show :: Recurring Guest Stars

Person:		Characters	Episodes
• Brian Williams	played	Himself	16 Episodes
• Fareed Zakaria	played	Himself	15 Episodes
• Ricky Gervais	played	Himself	12 Episodes
• Denis Leary	played	Himself	12 Episodes
• Paul Rudd (1)	played	Himself / Gene Safken	11 Episodes
• Will Ferrell	played	Himself	11 Episodes
• John McCain	played	Himself	11 Episodes
• William Kristol	played	Himself	11 Episodes
• Tom Brokaw	played	Himself	10 Episodes
• Richard Lewis	played	Himself	9 Episodes
• Neil Tyson	played	Himself	9 Episodes
• Stephen Colbert	played	Himself	8 Episodes
• Bill O'Reilly	played	Himself	8 Episodes
• Bill Clinton	played	Himself	8 Episodes
• Mike Huckabee	played	Himself	8 Episodes
• Ben Affleck	played	Himself	7 Episodes
• Sarah Vowell	played	Herself	7 Episodes
• Howard Dean (1)	played	Himself	7 Episodes
• Thomas Friedman (1)	played	Himself	7 Episodes
• Reza Aslan	played	Himself	7 Episodes
• David Cross	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Adam Sandler	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Steve Carell	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Al Gore	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Samuel L. Jackson	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Madeleine Albright	played	Herself	6 Episodes
• Bob Dole	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Maggie Gyllenhaal	played	Herself	6 Episodes
• Michael Moore (1)	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Ted Koppel	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Newt Gingrich	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Joseph R. Biden	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Olivia Munn	played	Herself	6 Episodes
• Jon Meacham	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Charles Schumer	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Austan Goolsbee	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Herman Cain	played	Himself	6 Episodes
• Norm MacDonald	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Dennis Miller	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Chris Wallace	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Jerry Seinfeld	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Jimmy Carter	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Louis C.K.	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Cameron Diaz	played	Herself	5 Episodes
• Paul Giamatti	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• George Stephanopoulos	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Walter Isaacson	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Rachel Weisz	played	Herself	5 Episodes
• Michael Beschloss	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Ed Gillespie	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Calvin Trillin	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Doris Kearns Goodwin	played	Herself	5 Episodes
• Barack Obama	played	Himself	5 Episodes
• Nancy Pelosi	played	Herself	5 Episodes
• Rachel Maddow	played	Herself	5 Episodes
• Drew Barrymore	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Al Franken	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Bruce Willis	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Patrick Stewart	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Andy Richter	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Jason Bateman	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Ben Stiller	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Jeff Garlin (1)	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Tom Hanks	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Al Sharpton	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Tim Russert	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Tim Gunn	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Tracey Ullman	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Sandra Bullock	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Philip Seymour Hoffman	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Angelina Jolie	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• John Edwards (1)	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Jake Gyllenhaal	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• John C. Reilly	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Natalie Portman	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Anderson Cooper	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Robert Reich	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Colin Firth	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Arianna Huffington	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Bob Schieffer	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Christopher Hitchens	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Dan Rather	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Lou Dobbs	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Judge Andrew Napolitano	played	Himself	4 Episodes
• Elizabeth Warren	played	Herself	4 Episodes
• Jamie Foxx (1)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Christopher Meloni	played	Himself / Tony Bologna	3 Episodes
• John Waters	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Rob Schneider	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Tracy Morgan	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Nathan Lane	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Aaron Eckhart	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Matthew Perry	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Christina Ricci	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Tim Robbins	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• D. L. Hughley	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Jennifer Love Hewitt	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Michael Francis Foley	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Randy Jackson	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Donny Osmond	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• David Boreanaz	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Seth Green	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Julianne Moore	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Ron Howard	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• George Clooney	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Michael Steele	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• George Carlin	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Wesley Clark	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Dave Chappelle	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Ringo Starr	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Sacha Baron Cohen (1)	played	Himself / Admiral General Aladeen	3 Episodes
• Seth Rogen	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Betty White	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Chris Rock	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Eric Idle	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Bob Costas	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Anne Hathaway	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Jon Hamm	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Richard Belzer	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Mario Batali	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Johnny Knoxville	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Jimmy Kimmel	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Wanda Sykes	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Pierce Brosnan	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Colin Quinn	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Billy Bob Thornton	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Matt Damon	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Sigourney Weaver	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Charlize Theron	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Charles Barkley	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Eddie Izzard	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Kate Hudson	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Mike Myers	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Liam Neeson	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• David Rakoff	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Pat Buchanan (1)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Bill Moyers	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Caroline Kennedy	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Harrison Ford	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Soledad O'Brien	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Terry McAuliffe	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Ralph Nader	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Seymour Hersh	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Billy Crudup	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Jim Wallis (2)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Peggy Noonan	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Peter Bergen	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Chris Matthews (1)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• David Sedaris	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Eugene Jarecki	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• David Gregory	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Bob Woodruff	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Bill Gates	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• John Bolton (2)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Michael Lewis (3)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Ron Paul (2)	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Rod Blagojevich	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Lisa P. Jackson	played	Herself	3 Episodes
• Mike Mullen	played	Himself	3 Episodes
• Bebe Neuwirth	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Tom Cruise	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Halle Berry	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Rosie Perez	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• French Stewart	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Melissa Gilbert	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Graham Norton	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jason Priestley	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• George Lucas	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• J. J. Abrams	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• David Alan Grier	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• LL Cool J	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Clint Eastwood	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Joy Behar	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Ed McMahon	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Lance Armstrong	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bob Woodward (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Wendie Malick	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Dennis Quaid	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Yasmine Bleeth	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Rob Lowe	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ted Danson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Snoop Dogg	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Willie Nelson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Carson Daly	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Lisa Ling	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Peter Krause	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tobey Maguire	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Neil Patrick Harris	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Don Rickles	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• John Tesh	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Freddie Prinze, Jr.	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Richard Branson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Michael J. Fox	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Stanley Tucci	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Dave Foley	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kellie Martin	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Stephen Baldwin	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Larry David	played	Himself / Narrator	2 Episodes
• Martin Short	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bonnie Hunt	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Joshua Jackson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Eva Mendes	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Jennifer Aniston	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Jeff Daniels	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Larry King	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Brooke Shields	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Robin Williams	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ice Cube	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Billy Connolly	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kyle MacLachlan	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Garry Shandling	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Dwayne Johnson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Alec Baldwin	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Peter Dinklage	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kathie Lee Gifford	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Tom Selleck	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bill Maher	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Cynthia Nixon	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Sarah Jessica Parker	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Trey Parker (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Matt Stone	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tenacious D	played	Themselves	2 Episodes
• Janeane Garofalo	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Michael Caine	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Judd Apatow	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Don Cheadle	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Laura Kightlinger	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Morgan Freeman	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Al Roker	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Katie Couric	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Shawn Wayans	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Zach Galifianakis	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Rosario Dawson	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Edie Falco	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Kirsten Dunst	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Bo Dietl	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Rudolph Giuliani	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Laura Linney	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Fred Dalton Thompson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Amy Sedaris	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Luke Wilson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Adrien Brody	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Rebecca Romijn	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Mindy Kaling	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Dolly Parton	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Brendan Fraser	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Hugh Jackman	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Vin Diesel	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kevin Spacey	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Gwyneth Paltrow	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• John Leguizamo	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Dwight Yoakam	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ari Fleischer	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Neil Young	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Liev Schreiber	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Famke Janssen	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Keira Knightley	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Jeff Bridges	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Hillary Rodham Clinton	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• John Kerry (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jude Law	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Matthew McConaughey	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Christiane Amanpour	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Diane Lane	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Christopher Walken	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Morgan Spurlock	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Anthony Hopkins	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Peter Jennings	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Anna Paquin	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Edward Norton (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Joe Klein	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• John Malkovich	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Diane Ravitch	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Tony Snow	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Gary Hart (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Joseph Wilson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Dennis Kucinich	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kate Beckinsale	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Jonah Goldberg	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bernard Goldberg	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tom Daschle	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Zell Miller	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ken Auletta	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Christine Todd Whitman	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Wynton Marsalis	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bob Kerrey	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ken Mehlman	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Stephen F. Hayes (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Wolf Blitzer	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Michael Isikoff	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bill Richardson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• John Zogby	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kenneth Pollack	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kay Bailey Hutchison	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Paul O'Neill	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Harry Frankfurt	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Mike Wallace	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Frank Luntz	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Christina Hoff Sommers (1)	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Steven Levitt (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tom Ridge	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Colin Powell	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Matt Taibbi	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Trent Lott	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• LeBron James	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• David Frum	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Albert Brooks	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bill Bradley	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Michael Stipe	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Howard Stern	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ken Burns	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Mary Roach	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Eugene Robinson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• George Packer	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Salman Rushdie	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• P. J. O'Rourke	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jane Goodall	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• King Abdullah II	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Eugene Linden	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Russ Feingold	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• T. J. English	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tony Blair	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jason Sudeikis	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bruce Bartlett	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Robert Pattinson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• David Remnick	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Scott McClellan	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Slim Thug	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Gwen Ifill	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Arlen Specter	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Condoleezza Rice	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Ralph Reed (2)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jonah Hill	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Vali Nasr	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Pervez Musharraf	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Robert Draper (1)	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jack Cafferty	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jack Goldsmith	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Hoda Kotb	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Dana Perino	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Ronald Kessler	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Grover Norquist	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Thomas Ricks	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ian Bremmer	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Ron Suskind	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Tim Kaine	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Michelle Obama	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• T. Boone Pickens	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Al Goldstein	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Jon Ronson	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• William Cohan	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Richard Beeman	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Kathleen Sebelius	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Tim Pawlenty	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Sandra Day O'connor	played	Herself	2 Episodes
• Rand Paul	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Marco Rubio	played	Himself	2 Episodes
• Bassem Youssef	played	Himself	2 Episodes

The Daily Show

Classification: Talk Shows
Genre: Comedy
Status: Returning Series
Network: Comedy Central (

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Airs: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 11:00 pm
Runtime: 30 Minutes
Premiere: July 22, 1996

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