List of The Daily Show episodes | |
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Season 2007 | |
No. of episodes | 138 |
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Original network | Comedy Central |
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2007. [1] [2] [3]
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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January 8 | Louis C.K. | Louis C.K.: Shameless |
January 9 | Harry Frankfurt | On Truth |
January 10 | Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee | From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Stops to Restoring America's Greatness |
January 11 | Peter O'Toole | Venus |
January 15 | Josh Bernstein | Digging for the Truth |
January 16 | Michael Oren | Power, Faith, and Fantasy |
January 17 | Jerry Rice | Go Long: My Journey Beyond the Game and the Fame |
January 18 | Robin Wright Penn | Breaking and Entering |
January 22 | Gen. Rupert Smith | The Utility of Force |
January 23 | Terry McAuliffe | What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals |
January 24 | Scott McClellan | none, former White House Press Secretary |
January 25 | Sen. Chuck Schumer | Positively American |
January 29 | Bill Gates | Microsoft Windows Vista |
January 30 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries |
January 31 | Sen. Joe Biden | Biden's 2008 Presidential Campaign |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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February 1 | Sienna Miller | Factory Girl |
February 5 | Walter Scheib | White House Chef |
February 6 | Mike Rowe | Dirty Jobs |
February 7 | Ralph Nader | The Seventeen Traditions and An Unreasonable Man |
February 8 | John Mellencamp | Freedom's Road |
February 12 | Jeffrey Rosen | The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America |
February 13 | Christopher Horner | The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism |
February 14 | Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
February 15 | Meredith Vieira | The Today Show |
February 26 | Craig Newmark | Craigslist |
February 27 | John Amaechi | Man in the Middle |
February 28 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Zodiac |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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April 9 | Bill Bradley | The New American Story |
April 10 | Walter Isaacson | Einstein: His Life and Universe |
April 11 | Halle Berry | Perfect Stranger |
April 12 | Richard Preston | The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring |
April 16 | Andrew Card | |
April 17 | Sig Hansen | Deadliest Catch |
April 18 | Ali Allawi | The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace |
April 19 | Jeremy Scahill | Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army |
April 23 | Matthew Cooper | |
April 24 | Sen. John McCain | Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember |
April 25 | Garry Shandling | The Larry Sanders Show DVD |
April 26 | Richard Gere | The Hoax |
April 30 | Christopher Hitchens | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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May 1 | Tobey Maguire | Spider-Man 3 |
May 2 | Pierre Rehov | Suicide Killers |
May 3 | Ted Koppel | Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public |
May 7 | Lee Gutkind | Almost Human: Making Robots Think |
May 8 | George Tenet | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA |
May 9 | Michael Beschloss | Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 |
May 10 | Reza Aslan | No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam |
May 14 | Jeremy Paxman | On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families |
May 15 | Tim Russert | Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons |
May 16 | Don Rickles | Rickles' Book: A Memoir |
May 17 | Brink Lindsey | The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture |
May 21 | Zaki Chehab | Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement |
May 22 | Margaret Spellings | |
May 23 | Lt. Col. Kevin Robbins | U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds |
May 24 | Al Gore | The Assault on Reason |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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June 4 | Rep. Ron Paul | Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008 |
June 5 | Paul Rudd | Knocked Up |
June 6 | Michael Barone | Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers |
June 7 | Eddie Izzard | Ocean's Thirteen |
June 11 | David Steinberg | The Book of David |
June 12 | Robert Shrum | No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner |
June 13 | Allan Brandt | The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America |
June 14 | Angelina Jolie | A Mighty Heart |
June 18 | Steve Carell | Evan Almighty |
June 19 | Brian Williams | |
June 20 | Fareed Zakaria | The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad |
June 21 | Greg Bear | Quantico |
June 25 | Steve Vogel | The Pentagon: A History |
June 26 | Bruce Willis | Live Free or Die Hard |
June 27 | Michael Moore | Sicko |
June 28 | Claire Danes | Evening |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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July 16 | Josh Rushing | Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World |
July 17 | Christopher Walken | Hairspray |
July 18 | Matt Groening | The Simpsons Movie |
July 19 | Adam Sandler | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry |
July 23 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | NOVA scienceNOW |
July 24 | Robert Pallitto | Presidential Secrecy and the Law |
July 25 | Rob Gifford | China Road |
July 26 | Robert Dallek | Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power |
July 30 | Alastair Campbell | The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries |
July 31 | Lewis Gordon Pugh | Long-distance swim in the waters of the North Pole |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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August 1 | Jed Babbin | In the Words of our Enemies |
August 2 | Matt Damon | The Bourne Ultimatum |
August 7 | Andy Samberg | Hot Rod |
August 8 | Sen. Joe Biden | Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics |
August 9 | Tal Ben-Shahar | Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment |
August 13 | Bill Kristol | The Weekly Standard |
August 14 | Denis Leary | Rescue Me |
August 15 | Stephen F. Hayes | Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President |
August 16 | Sen. John McCain | Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them |
August 20 | Nikolas Kozloff | Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S. |
August 21 | Alan Weisman | The World Without Us |
August 22 | Sen. Barack Obama | Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 |
August 23 | Lt. Col. John Nagl | The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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September 10 | Jeff Garlin | I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With |
September 11 | Jodie Foster | The Brave One |
September 12 | Robert Draper | Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush |
September 13 | Douglas Farah | Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible |
September 18 | Alan Greenspan | The Age of Turbulence |
September 19 | Gen. Wesley Clark | A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country |
September 20 | President Bill Clinton | Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World |
September 24 | John Bowe | Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy |
September 25 | President Evo Morales | President of Bolivia |
September 26 | Jamie Foxx | The Kingdom |
September 27 | Ken Burns | The War |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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October 1 | Jack Cafferty | It's Getting Ugly Out There |
October 2 | Chris Matthews | Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success |
October 3 | Ted Koppel | Koppel on Discovery |
October 4 | Jack Goldsmith | The Terror Presidency |
October 8 | Vicente Fox | Revolution of Hope |
October 9 | Tiki Barber | Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond |
October 10 | Lynne Cheney | Blue Skies, No Fences |
October 11 | Howard Kurtz | Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War |
October 15 | Tony Snow | |
October 16 | Stephen Colbert | Presidential candidacy |
Meryl Streep | Rendition , Lions for Lambs | |
October 17 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Rendition |
October 18 | Ben Affleck | Gone, Baby, Gone |
October 29 | Michael Gerson | Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't) |
October 30 | Valerie Plame Wilson | Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House |
October 31 | David Wright | David Wright Foundation |
Date | Guest | Promotion |
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November 1 | Jerry Seinfeld | Bee Movie |
There were no further episodes produced in November due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.
There were no episodes produced in December due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike.
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