List of The Daily Show episodes | |
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Season 2006 | |
No. of episodes | 161 |
Release | |
Original network | Comedy Central |
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2006. [1] [2] [3]
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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February 1 | Michael Beschloss | "A renowned presidential historian and best-selling author." |
February 2 | Robert O'Harrow Jr. | No Place to Hide |
February 7 | Torie Clarke | Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game |
February 8 | Harrison Ford | Firewall |
February 9 | Will Arnett | Arrested Development (episode hosted by Rob Corddry) |
February 13 | Astronaut Mike Mullane | Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut |
February 14 | Peter Tertzakian | A Thousand Barrels a Second |
February 15 | Julianne Moore | Freedomland |
February 16 | Ed Harris | Winter Passing |
February 21 | Sarah Vowell | Assassination Vacation |
February 22 | Matthew Fox | Lost |
February 23 | Roger Ebert | The Great Movies II |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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March 7 | Eugene Linden | The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations |
March 8 | Neil Young | Neil Young: Heart of Gold |
March 9 | Bruce Bartlett | Impostor : How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy |
March 13 | Eric Burns | Infamous Scribblers |
March 14 | Bart Ehrman | Misquoting Jesus |
March 15 | Natalie Portman | V for Vendetta |
March 16 | Vin Diesel | Find Me Guilty , and possibly Tigon Studios. |
March 20 | Clive Owen | Inside Man |
March 21 | Georges Sada | Saddam's Secrets |
March 22 | Senator Russ Feingold | "The Democratic junior senator who has recently called for the censure of President Bush." |
March 23 | Michael Mandelbaum | The Case for Golaith |
March 27 | Michael Gordon | Cobra II |
March 28 | Fareed Zakaria | The editor of Newsweek International... and host of Foreign Exchange on PBS to talk about illegal immigration to the United States, and Iraq. |
March 29 | Queen Latifah | Ice Age: The Meltdown |
March 30 | Sharon Stone | Basic Instinct 2 |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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April 3 | Ricky Gervais | More Flanimals |
April 4 | Studs Terkel | And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey |
April 5 | Tony Zinni | The Battle for Peace; N.B. this was a special episode entitled, "Race: The AfroSpanicIndioAsianization of America", which focused on race relations in America. |
April 6 | Josh Hartnett | Lucky Number Slevin |
April 17 | Jon Meacham | American Gospel : God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation |
April 18 | Ryan Nerz | Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit |
April 19 | Dennis Quaid | American Dreamz |
April 20 | Ted Kennedy | America Back on Track |
April 24 | Efraim Halevy | Man in the Shadows |
April 25 | Tom Selleck | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (made for TV movie) |
April 26 | Kimberley Strassel | "A member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board... [to speak] about the oil industry and the rising price of gasoline." |
April 27 | Robin Williams | RV |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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May 1 | Matthew Continetti | The K Street Gang |
May 2 | Madeleine Albright | The Mighty and the Almighty |
May 3 | Clark Kent Ervin | Where America is Vulnerable to Attack |
May 4 | John Malkovich | Art School Confidential |
May 8 | David Remnick | Reporting |
May 9 | Eric Shawn | The UN Exposed |
May 10 | Billy Connolly | Billy Connolly - Live In New York |
May 11 | Francis Fukuyama | America at the Crossroads |
May 15 | Howard Dean | The Democratic Party |
May 16 | Denis Leary | Rescue Me |
May 17 | Ramesh Ponnuru | The Party of Death |
May 18 | Willie Nelson | The Tao of Willie |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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June 5 | Caroline Kennedy | Profiles in Courage |
June 6 | William John Bennett | America: The Last Best Hope |
June 7 | Bonnie Hunt | Cars |
June 8 | Lily Tomlin | A Prairie Home Companion |
June 12 | Thomas Friedman | The World Is Flat |
June 13 | Ken Mehlman | The Republican Party |
June 14 | Tim Russert | Meet the Press |
June 15 | Louis C.K. | Lucky Louie |
June 19 | Calvin Trillin | A Heckuva Job |
June 20 | Juliet Eilperin | Fight Club Politics |
June 21 | Anderson Cooper | Dispatches from the Edge |
June 22 | Adam Sandler | Click |
June 26 | Lance Armstrong | ESPY Awards |
June 27 | Helen Thomas | Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public (Scribner, 2006) ISBN 0-7432-6781-8 |
June 28 | Al Gore | An Inconvenient Truth |
June 29 | Kevin Spacey | Superman Returns |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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July 10 | Ilario Pantano | Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy |
July 11 | John Dean | Conservatives without Conscience |
July 12 | Shawn Wayans | Little Man |
July 13 | Owen Wilson | You, Me and Dupree |
July 17 | Gordon G. Chang | Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On The World; Daily Show's Tenth Anniversary (although July 22, 2006 would be the exact date) |
July 18 | M. Night Shyamalan | Lady in the Water |
July 19 | James Maguire | American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds |
July 20 | Paul Giamatti | Lady in the Water |
July 24 | John McCain | |
July 25 | Edward Burns | The Groomsmen |
July 26 | Sharon Weinberger | Imaginary Weapons |
July 27 | Alon Ben-Meir | Professor of New York University (NYU) International Relations and Middle East Director of The World Policy Institute at The New School, to talk about 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict |
July 31 | Will Ferrell | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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August 1 | Vali Nasr | The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future |
August 2 | Chris Paine | Who Killed the Electric Car? |
August 3 | Danny DeVito | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
August 8 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |
August 9 | Craig Glenday | Guinness World Records |
August 10 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | |
August 14 | Thomas E. Ricks | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq |
August 15 | Samuel L. Jackson | Snakes on a Plane |
August 16 | Thomas Kean | Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission |
August 17 | Matt Dillon | Factotum |
August 21 | Reza Aslan | No god but God (paperback) |
August 22 | William Cohen | Dragon Fire |
August 23 | Frederick S. Lane | The Decency Wars |
August 24 | Martin Short | Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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September 11 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Sherrybaby |
September 12 | Gary Hart | The Courage Of Our Convictions |
September 13 | Ed Gillespie | Winning Right |
September 14 | Norm Macdonald | Ridiculous |
September 18 | Bill Clinton | Clinton Global Initiative |
September 19 | Ben Affleck | Hollywoodland |
September 20 | Johnny Knoxville | Jackass Number Two |
September 21 | CC Goldwater | Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater |
September 25 | Pat Buchanan | State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America |
September 26 | Pervez Musharraf | In the Line of Fire: A Memoir |
September 27 | Al Franken | The Truth (with jokes) |
September 28 | Jim McGreevey | The Confession |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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October 2 | Trent Lott | Herding Cats: A Life in Politics |
October 3 | Dennis Miller | |
October 4 | Ian Bremmer | The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall |
October 5 | David Rakoff | Don't Get Too Comfortable |
October 9 | James Baker | Work Hard, Study ... and Keep Out of Politics! |
October 10 | David Cross | Freak Show |
October 11 | Lou Dobbs | War on the Middle Class |
October 12 | David Mark | Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning |
October 16 | Frank Rich | The Greatest Story Ever Sold |
October 17 | Amy Sedaris | I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence |
October 18 | John Ashcroft | Never Again |
October 19 | Kirsten Dunst | Marie Antoinette |
October 30 | LeBron James | |
October 31 | John Mueller | Overblown |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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November 1 | None | Battlefield Ohio: The Daily Show's Midwest Midterm Midtacular |
November 2 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan |
November 6 | Jerry Seinfeld | Bee Movie & Seinfeld Season 7 DVD |
November 7 | Dan Rather | 2006 Midterm Elections Coverage |
November 8 | Howard Dean | 2006 Midterm Elections Coverage |
November 9 | Dustin Hoffman | Stranger than Fiction |
November 13 | Tina Fey | 30 Rock |
November 14 | John Edwards | Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives |
November 15 | Ted Koppel | Iran - The Most Dangerous Nation (Discovery Channel documentary) |
November 16 | Muhammad Yunus | Banker to the Poor |
November 27 | Rahm Emanuel | The Plan: Big Ideas for America |
November 28 | Tom Waits | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards |
November 29 | George Clooney | The Good German |
November 30 | Tenacious D | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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December 4 | Nathan Lane | Butley (Broadway Play) |
December 5 | John Danforth | Faith and Politics |
December 6 | Eve Herold | Stem Cell Wars ( ISBN 1-4039-7499-3) |
December 7 | Ed Viesturs | No Shortcuts to the Top ( ISBN 0-7679-2470-3) |
December 11 | Lincoln Chafee | |
December 12 | Fareed Zakaria | |
December 13 | Ricky Gervais | Night at the Museum |
December 14 | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone ( ISBN 1-4000-4487-1) |
December 18 | Tom Vilsack | |
December 19 | Bill Kristol | |
December 20 | Ben Stiller | Night at the Museum |
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