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12 unusual facts about The Daily Show


Almost Human: Making Robots Think

In May 2007 Gutkind appeared as a guest author on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to talk about robots, the future, and his book.

Bill Whatcott

The dramatic nature of his activities have attracted attention from the media, including an appearance on The Daily Show.

Bob Wise

On August 4, 2004, in an interview on The Daily Show before Wise's withdrawal, Phillip "Icky" Frye told Rob Corddry that he was running for governor, despite being unqualified, to be a nuisance to Wise.

El Bernameg

Its satirical style, willing to poke fun at powerful personages across the political spectrum, has led the press to compared it with The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show.

Eric Drysdale

Drysdale worked as a writer and occasional on-screen actor for The Daily Show for six years, during which time he contributed to their coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections.

Georges Sada

Sada made a guest appearance on The Daily Show on March 21, 2006 to promote Saddam's Secrets.

Harry Frankfurt

His 1986 paper On Bullshit, a philosophical investigation of the concept of "bullshit", was republished as a book in 2005 and became a surprise bestseller, leading to media appearances such as Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

Mortgage Bankers Association

This was featured on The Daily Show on October 7, 2010 contrasting the MBAs actions with statements made by its representatives claiming that strategic default is morally wrong.

Negin Farsad

Featuring interviews with a diverse cast of everyday citizens, religious leaders and celebrities, such as The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, comedians David Cross, Janeane Garafalo, Colin Quinn, and national news personalities' Rachel Maddow, Soledad O'Brian and Al Velshi among others.

Ohio gubernatorial election, 2006

Comedian and talk-show host Jon Stewart taped The Daily Show from October 30 to November 2, 2006, at the Roy Bowen Theater on the campus of Ohio State University.

Rich Blomquist

Rich Blomquist is a former staff writer for The Daily Show.

Writers Guild of America, East

On August 27, 2006, WGAE reached an agreement with the producers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, allowing writers on the show to become guild members.


Andy Kindler

He played the character "Andy" a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, is a regular guest on Late Show with David Letterman, contributor to The Daily Show and has performed on HBO.

Hugh Shelton

On October 24, 2010, General Shelton appeared on This Week with Christiane Amanpour, on December 6, 2010 appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and on December 30, 2010 appeared on The Charlie Rose Show on PBS and Bloomberg TV, to promote the publication of his memoir Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior.

Jesse Falcon

Since 1998, Falcon has been a featured performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, which helped launch the careers of comedians like Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and The Daily Show 's Rob Corddry. Falcon also performs with other comedy groups such as Mother, The Chipperton Family, Telethon, and Girl Crush 2040. He has also appeared in the comedic short film Running with Scissors.

Jon Davison

Some highlights of this period were traveling to Japan, and appearing on late night talk shows including Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.

Marc Thiessen

Thiessen's promotional tour for Courting Disaster included confrontational interviews with CNN's Christiane Amanpour and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, and an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, an uncut version of which was posted online.

Nancy Glass

When not overseeing her company, Nancy Glass Productions, Glass has appeared as a guest or guest-host on such programs as The Daily Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN Larry King Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Morning News, Hollywood Squares, Court TV, MSNBC and as a host on WOR-radio in New York City.

P. W. Singer

Singer has provided commentary on military affairs for many of the major TV and radio outlet, including ABC News Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show.

Parazit

Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi, Iranian expatriates living in Washington, DC, started the show as a 10-minute segment in another show influenced by the American satirical news show The Daily Show.

Passaic Valley Regional High School

Frank DeCaro (born 1962), class of 1980, writer, entertainer, and satellite radio talk show host; co-wrote and hosted Out at the Movies segments on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Respecto Montalban

The group's popularity at the UCBT was a springboard to comedy careers for its members: Rob Riggle, a Marine who served in both Kosovo and Afghanistan, has been a cast member on Saturday Night Live and a correspondent on The Daily Show.

Ron Stephens

In early February 2006, Stephens challenged Blagojevich in an appearance on The Daily Show to discuss the Governor's executive order that pharmacists must dispense any drugs for which a customer had a valid prescription, including birth control pills and Plan B.

The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium

The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012 is a debate between Bill O'Reilly of The O'Reilly Factor and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and moderated by CNN news anchor E. D. Hill.

Training Wheels for Citizenship

The Daily Shows producers invited Sen. Vasconcellos and Sacramento County Registrar Jill LaVine to be interviewed by Rob Corddry, who asked, "Do you ever think of counting blacks as more than one vote to make up for that whole slavery thing? P. Diddy's got to be worth two votes, and Justin Timberlake, he's worth two votes, even though he's not black or anything."