List of The Daily Show episodes | |
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No. of episodes | 159 |
Release | |
Original network | Comedy Central |
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2012. [1] [2] [3]
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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February 1 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball |
February 2 | David Agus | Author, The End of Illness. Free Press. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4516-1017-8. |
February 13 | Ali Soufan | Author, Soufan, Ali; Freedman, Daniel (September 12, 2011). The Black Banners. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07942-5. |
February 14 | Ricky Gervais | Life's Too Short |
February 15 | Louise Slaughter | ( D) New York |
February 16 | Arne Duncan | Secretary of Education |
February 20 | Alan Huffman & Michael Rejebian | Authors, Huffman, Alan; Rejebian, Michael (January 24, 2012). We're With Nobody. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-201577-8. |
February 21 | Russ Feingold | Author, Feingold, Russ (March 11, 2024). While America Sleeps. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-95252-3. |
February 22 | Bruce Bartlett | Author, Bartlett, Bruce (January 24, 2012). The Benefit and the Burden. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4619-1. |
February 23 | Paul Rudd | Wanderlust |
February 27 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Author, Tyson, Neil Degrasse (March 11, 2024). Space Chronicles. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08210-4. |
February 28 | Stephen Merchant | Life's Too Short |
February 29 | Masha Gessen | Author, Gessen, Masha (March 11, 2024). The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-842-9. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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March 1 | M. Cathleen Kaveny | professor of Law & Theology, Notre Dame |
March 5 | Shaun Donovan | Secretary of Housing & Urban Development |
March 6 | Julianne Moore | Game Change |
March 7 | Cecile Richards | President, Planned Parenthood Action Fund |
March 8 | Trita Parsi | Author, Parsi, Trita (March 11, 2024). A Single Roll of the Dice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2. |
March 12 | Grover Norquist | President, Americans for Tax Reform / Author, Norquist, Grover Glenn; John r. Lott, Jr (February 28, 2012). Debacle. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-18617-6. |
March 13 | Will Ferrell | Casa de Mi Padre |
March 14 | Rachel Weisz | The Deep Blue Sea |
March 15 | None | |
March 26 | Shaquille O'Neal | TNT Analyst, Inside the NBA |
March 27 | Maria Goodavage | Author, Goodavage, Maria (March 11, 2024). Soldier Dogs. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-95278-7. |
March 28 | Ahmed Rashid | Author, Rashid, Ahmed (March 11, 2024). Pakistan on the Brink. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02346-2. |
March 29 | Rachel Maddow | Author, Drift. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
April 2 | Mohamed Nasheed | The Island President / Former President of the Maldives |
April 3 | Tom Goldstein | Publisher, SCOTUSblog |
April 4 | Jack Goldsmith | Author, Power and Constraint |
April 5 | Anthony Bourdain | No Reservations |
April 9 | Tim Weiner | Author, Enemies: A History of the FBI |
April 10 | Elon Musk | CEO, SpaceX |
April 11 | Ricky Gervais | The Ricky Gervais Show |
April 12 | Esperanza Spalding | Radio Music Society |
April 16 | Jane Goodall | Spokesperson, Chimpanzee |
April 17 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Veep |
April 18 | Robert Reich | Author, Beyond Outrage |
April 19 | Judy Smith | Author, Good Self, Bad Self |
April 23 | Ben Rattray | Founder, Change.org |
April 24 | Madeleine Albright | Author, Prague Winter / Former U.S. Secretary of State |
April 25 | Jason Segel | The Five-Year Engagement |
April 26 | Robert Draper | Author, Do Not Ask What Good We Do |
April 30 | Zach Wahls | Author, My Two Moms |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
May 1 | David Barton | Author, The Jefferson Lies |
May 2 | Sen. Tom Coburn | Author, The Debt Bomb / ( R) Oklahoma |
May 3 | Peter Bergen | Author, Manhunt |
May 7 | "
Admiral General Aladeen" ( Sacha Baron Cohen) |
The nation of Wadiya |
May 8 | Ambassador Ivo Daalder | U.S. Ambassador to NATO |
May 9 | John R. Hall | Author, Queen Elizabeth and Her Church / Dean of Westminster Abbey |
May 10 | Robert Caro | Author, The Passage of Power |
May 29 | First Lady Michelle Obama | Author, American Grown |
May 30 | Dan Rather | Author, Rather Outspoken |
May 31 | Jim Parsons | Harvey |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
June 4 | Thomas Mann & Norman Ornstein | Co-authors, It's Even Worse Than It Looks |
June 5 | Gary Johnson | Former Governor of New Mexico |
June 6 | Michael Fassbender | Prometheus |
June 7 | Edward Conard | Author, Unintended Consequences |
June 11 | Boris Johnson | Mayor of London / Author, Johnson's Life of London |
June 12 | Colin Powell | Former Secretary of State / Author, It Worked for Me |
June 13 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Actor |
June 14 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Actor |
June 18 | Parmy Olson | Author, We are Anonymous |
June 19 | Denis Leary | Actor (originally planned was: Sen. Marco Rubio) |
June 20 | Steve Carell | Actor |
June 21 | Bassem Youssef | Al Bernameg |
June 25 | Marco Rubio | U.S. Senator |
June 26 | Seth MacFarlane | Ted |
June 27 | Andrew Garfield | Actor |
June 28 | Tenacious D | Band |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
July 16 | Louis C.K. | comedian |
July 17 | Victor Cruz | American football player / Author, Out of the Blue |
July 18 | Sigourney Weaver | Political Animals |
July 19 | E.J. Dionne | Author, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-60819-201-4. |
July 23 | Fareed Zakaria | Author, The Post-American World. W.W. Norton & Co. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-393-33480-7. |
July 24 | Matthew McConaughey | Killer Joe |
July 25 | Joseph Stiglitz | Author, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-393-08869-4. |
July 26 | Zach Galifianakis & Will Ferrell | The Campaign |
July 30 | Rashida Jones | Celeste and Jesse Forever |
July 31 | Dambisa Moyo | Author, Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World. Basic Books. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-465-02828-3. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
August 1 | Fred Guterl | Author, The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race may Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-60819-258-8. |
August 2 | Jessica Biel | Total Recall |
August 6 | Tim Gunn | Project Runway |
August 7 | Saima Wahab | Author, Wahab, Saima (March 11, 2024). In My Father's Country. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-88494-7. |
August 8 | Chris Rock | 2 Days in New York |
August 9 | Joanna Brooks | Author, Brooks, Joanna (March 11, 2024). The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith. Queen Bee Press. ISBN 978-0-615-59344-9. |
August 13 | Robert Pattinson | Cosmopolis |
August 14 | Misty May-Treanor | London 2012 Olympic gold medallist |
August 15 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |
August 16 | Rob Corddry | Childrens Hospital |
August 28 | Marco Rubio | U.S. Senator |
August 29 | Herman Cain | Former presidential candidate for the Republican Party |
August 30 | Michael Steele | Former Republican National Committee Chairman |
August 31 | none |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
September 4 | Tom Brokaw | Author |
September 5 | Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator |
September 6 | Austan Goolsbee | |
September 7 | none | |
September 17 | Kofi Annan | Former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
September 18 | Salman Rushdie | Author, Joseph Anton: A Memoir |
September 19 | Pink | Musician |
September 20 | Bill Clinton | Former President of the United States |
September 25 | Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein | King of Jordan |
September 26 | Olivia Wilde | Butter |
September 27 | Amar'e Stoudemire | Professional basketball player and author of the STAT book series for children |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
December 3 | Denis Leary | Leary, Denis (October 30, 2012). Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas. Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-4762-6. |
December 4 | R. A. Dickey | Dickey, Robert Allen; Coffey, Wayne R. (March 11, 2024). Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball. Blue Rider Press. ISBN 978-0-399-15815-5. |
December 5 | Alan Simpson | Co-Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform |
December 6 | Chris Christie | Governor of New Jersey |
December 10 | Bishop Gene Robinson | Robinson, Gene (March 11, 2024). God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-95788-7. |
December 11 | Laura Linney | Hyde Park on Hudson |
December 12 | Cory Booker | Mayor of Newark, New Jersey |
December 13 | Kristen Stewart | On the Road |
List of The Daily Show episodes | |
---|---|
No. of episodes | 159 |
Release | |
Original network | Comedy Central |
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2012. [1] [2] [3]
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
February 1 | Brad Pitt | Moneyball |
February 2 | David Agus | Author, The End of Illness. Free Press. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4516-1017-8. |
February 13 | Ali Soufan | Author, Soufan, Ali; Freedman, Daniel (September 12, 2011). The Black Banners. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07942-5. |
February 14 | Ricky Gervais | Life's Too Short |
February 15 | Louise Slaughter | ( D) New York |
February 16 | Arne Duncan | Secretary of Education |
February 20 | Alan Huffman & Michael Rejebian | Authors, Huffman, Alan; Rejebian, Michael (January 24, 2012). We're With Nobody. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-201577-8. |
February 21 | Russ Feingold | Author, Feingold, Russ (March 11, 2024). While America Sleeps. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-95252-3. |
February 22 | Bruce Bartlett | Author, Bartlett, Bruce (January 24, 2012). The Benefit and the Burden. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4619-1. |
February 23 | Paul Rudd | Wanderlust |
February 27 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Author, Tyson, Neil Degrasse (March 11, 2024). Space Chronicles. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08210-4. |
February 28 | Stephen Merchant | Life's Too Short |
February 29 | Masha Gessen | Author, Gessen, Masha (March 11, 2024). The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-842-9. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
March 1 | M. Cathleen Kaveny | professor of Law & Theology, Notre Dame |
March 5 | Shaun Donovan | Secretary of Housing & Urban Development |
March 6 | Julianne Moore | Game Change |
March 7 | Cecile Richards | President, Planned Parenthood Action Fund |
March 8 | Trita Parsi | Author, Parsi, Trita (March 11, 2024). A Single Roll of the Dice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2. |
March 12 | Grover Norquist | President, Americans for Tax Reform / Author, Norquist, Grover Glenn; John r. Lott, Jr (February 28, 2012). Debacle. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-18617-6. |
March 13 | Will Ferrell | Casa de Mi Padre |
March 14 | Rachel Weisz | The Deep Blue Sea |
March 15 | None | |
March 26 | Shaquille O'Neal | TNT Analyst, Inside the NBA |
March 27 | Maria Goodavage | Author, Goodavage, Maria (March 11, 2024). Soldier Dogs. Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-95278-7. |
March 28 | Ahmed Rashid | Author, Rashid, Ahmed (March 11, 2024). Pakistan on the Brink. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02346-2. |
March 29 | Rachel Maddow | Author, Drift. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-300-16936-2. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
April 2 | Mohamed Nasheed | The Island President / Former President of the Maldives |
April 3 | Tom Goldstein | Publisher, SCOTUSblog |
April 4 | Jack Goldsmith | Author, Power and Constraint |
April 5 | Anthony Bourdain | No Reservations |
April 9 | Tim Weiner | Author, Enemies: A History of the FBI |
April 10 | Elon Musk | CEO, SpaceX |
April 11 | Ricky Gervais | The Ricky Gervais Show |
April 12 | Esperanza Spalding | Radio Music Society |
April 16 | Jane Goodall | Spokesperson, Chimpanzee |
April 17 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Veep |
April 18 | Robert Reich | Author, Beyond Outrage |
April 19 | Judy Smith | Author, Good Self, Bad Self |
April 23 | Ben Rattray | Founder, Change.org |
April 24 | Madeleine Albright | Author, Prague Winter / Former U.S. Secretary of State |
April 25 | Jason Segel | The Five-Year Engagement |
April 26 | Robert Draper | Author, Do Not Ask What Good We Do |
April 30 | Zach Wahls | Author, My Two Moms |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
May 1 | David Barton | Author, The Jefferson Lies |
May 2 | Sen. Tom Coburn | Author, The Debt Bomb / ( R) Oklahoma |
May 3 | Peter Bergen | Author, Manhunt |
May 7 | "
Admiral General Aladeen" ( Sacha Baron Cohen) |
The nation of Wadiya |
May 8 | Ambassador Ivo Daalder | U.S. Ambassador to NATO |
May 9 | John R. Hall | Author, Queen Elizabeth and Her Church / Dean of Westminster Abbey |
May 10 | Robert Caro | Author, The Passage of Power |
May 29 | First Lady Michelle Obama | Author, American Grown |
May 30 | Dan Rather | Author, Rather Outspoken |
May 31 | Jim Parsons | Harvey |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
June 4 | Thomas Mann & Norman Ornstein | Co-authors, It's Even Worse Than It Looks |
June 5 | Gary Johnson | Former Governor of New Mexico |
June 6 | Michael Fassbender | Prometheus |
June 7 | Edward Conard | Author, Unintended Consequences |
June 11 | Boris Johnson | Mayor of London / Author, Johnson's Life of London |
June 12 | Colin Powell | Former Secretary of State / Author, It Worked for Me |
June 13 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Actor |
June 14 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Actor |
June 18 | Parmy Olson | Author, We are Anonymous |
June 19 | Denis Leary | Actor (originally planned was: Sen. Marco Rubio) |
June 20 | Steve Carell | Actor |
June 21 | Bassem Youssef | Al Bernameg |
June 25 | Marco Rubio | U.S. Senator |
June 26 | Seth MacFarlane | Ted |
June 27 | Andrew Garfield | Actor |
June 28 | Tenacious D | Band |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
July 16 | Louis C.K. | comedian |
July 17 | Victor Cruz | American football player / Author, Out of the Blue |
July 18 | Sigourney Weaver | Political Animals |
July 19 | E.J. Dionne | Author, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-60819-201-4. |
July 23 | Fareed Zakaria | Author, The Post-American World. W.W. Norton & Co. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-393-33480-7. |
July 24 | Matthew McConaughey | Killer Joe |
July 25 | Joseph Stiglitz | Author, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-393-08869-4. |
July 26 | Zach Galifianakis & Will Ferrell | The Campaign |
July 30 | Rashida Jones | Celeste and Jesse Forever |
July 31 | Dambisa Moyo | Author, Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World. Basic Books. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-465-02828-3. |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
August 1 | Fred Guterl | Author, The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race may Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-60819-258-8. |
August 2 | Jessica Biel | Total Recall |
August 6 | Tim Gunn | Project Runway |
August 7 | Saima Wahab | Author, Wahab, Saima (March 11, 2024). In My Father's Country. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-88494-7. |
August 8 | Chris Rock | 2 Days in New York |
August 9 | Joanna Brooks | Author, Brooks, Joanna (March 11, 2024). The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith. Queen Bee Press. ISBN 978-0-615-59344-9. |
August 13 | Robert Pattinson | Cosmopolis |
August 14 | Misty May-Treanor | London 2012 Olympic gold medallist |
August 15 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |
August 16 | Rob Corddry | Childrens Hospital |
August 28 | Marco Rubio | U.S. Senator |
August 29 | Herman Cain | Former presidential candidate for the Republican Party |
August 30 | Michael Steele | Former Republican National Committee Chairman |
August 31 | none |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
September 4 | Tom Brokaw | Author |
September 5 | Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator |
September 6 | Austan Goolsbee | |
September 7 | none | |
September 17 | Kofi Annan | Former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
September 18 | Salman Rushdie | Author, Joseph Anton: A Memoir |
September 19 | Pink | Musician |
September 20 | Bill Clinton | Former President of the United States |
September 25 | Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein | King of Jordan |
September 26 | Olivia Wilde | Butter |
September 27 | Amar'e Stoudemire | Professional basketball player and author of the STAT book series for children |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
---|---|---|
December 3 | Denis Leary | Leary, Denis (October 30, 2012). Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas. Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-4762-6. |
December 4 | R. A. Dickey | Dickey, Robert Allen; Coffey, Wayne R. (March 11, 2024). Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball. Blue Rider Press. ISBN 978-0-399-15815-5. |
December 5 | Alan Simpson | Co-Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform |
December 6 | Chris Christie | Governor of New Jersey |
December 10 | Bishop Gene Robinson | Robinson, Gene (March 11, 2024). God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-95788-7. |
December 11 | Laura Linney | Hyde Park on Hudson |
December 12 | Cory Booker | Mayor of Newark, New Jersey |
December 13 | Kristen Stewart | On the Road |