List of Books Featured on the Daily Show (2014)
January 05, 2014
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Week of December 15, 2014
- 12.18.14 - Chris Rock, comedian/director - Top Five (movie)
- 12.17.14 - Anna Kendrick, actor - Into The Woods (movie)
- 12.16.14 - Paul McCartney, musician - Hope (single) from the new video game "Destiny"
- 12.15.14 - Tim Burton, director - Big Eyes (movie)
Week of December 8, 2014
- 12.11.14 - Mick Foley - I Am Santa Claus (documentary)
- 12.10.14 - Suki Kim, author - Without You, There Is No Us (book)
- 12.09.14 - Kathryn Bigelow, director & Juan Zarate, terrorism expert - Last Days (PSA)
- 12.08.14 - Norman Lear - Even This I Get To Experience (book)
Week of December 1, 2014
- 12.04.14 - Angelina Jolie, actor & director - Unbroken (movie)
- 12.03.14 - Sophie Delaunayexecutive director of Doctors Without Borders
- 12.02.14 - Dave Grohl, musician & director - Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (documentary)
- 12.01.14 - Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for Fox News Channel & author - Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty (book)
Week of November 24, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show are off this week for Thanksgiving.
Week of November 17, 2014
- 11.20.14 - Eddie Redmayne, actor - The Theory of Everything (movie)
- 11.19.14 - Jessica Chastain, actor - Interstellar (movie)
- 11.18.14 - Benedict Cumberbatch, actor - The Imitation Game (movie)
- 11.17.14 - Laura Poitra, filmmaker - Citizenfour (movie)
Week of November 10, 2014
- 11.13.14 - Maziar Bahari, author of Rosewater (previously published as Then They Came for Me) & Gael Garcia Bernal, actor - Rosewater (movie)
- 11.12.14 - Steve Carell, actor - Foxcatcher (movie)
- 11.11.14 - Samantha Power, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 11.10.14 - Bruce Springsteen. musician & Frank Caruso, illustrator - Outlaw Pete (book)
Week of November 3, 2014
- 11.06.14 - James Risen, author - Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (book) plus Jon promoted Aasif Mandvi's new book No Land's Man
- 11.05.14 - John Cleese, actor - So, Anyway... (book)
- 11.04.14 - Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- 11.03.14 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor - Nightcrawler (movie)
Week of October 27, 2014 - The Daily Show is in Austin this week!
- 10.30.14 - Spoon, musicians - They Want My Soul (album)
- 10.29.14 - Ellar Coltrane, actor- Boyhood (movie)
- 10.28.14 - Joaquin Castro, US Congressional Representative
- 10.27.14 - Wendy Davis, State Senator & Gubernatorial Candidate, D-TX - Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir (book)
Week of October 20, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show were off this week.
Week of October 13, 2014
- 10.16.14 - Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (book) At the end of the show, Jon also mentioned Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival (formerly titled Then They Came for Me) - it's the book that his movie, Rosewater, is based on.
- 10.15.14 - Bill O’Reilly, political commentator - Killing Patton (book)
- 10.14.14 - Zach Galifianakis, actor - Birdman (movie)
- 10.13.14 - Matt Bai, political columnist - All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid (book)
Week of October 6, 2014
- 10.09.14 - Jeremy Renner, actor - Kill The Messenger (movie)
- 10.08.14 - Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense - Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (book)
- 10.07.14 - Wyatt Cenac, comedian - Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn (Netflix special) and Brooklyn (comedy album)
- 10.06.14 - Atul Gawande, physician & surgeon - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (book)
Week of September 29, 2014
- 10.02.14 - Ben Steele, filmmaker - Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia (documentary)
- 10.01.14 - Lena Dunham, actor - Not That Kind of Girl (book)
- 09.30.14 - Ben Affleck, actor & director - Gone Girl (movie)
- 09.29.14 - Hadi al Bahra, President of the Syrian National Coalition
Week of September 22, 2014
- 09.25.14 - Steven Johnson - How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (book)
- 09.24.14 - Tia Torres, pit bull trainer - Pit Bulls & Parolees (TV show)
- 09.23.14 - Tony Zinni, US Marine Corps general - Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win or Lose Off the Battlefield (book)
- 09.22.14 - Jenny Nordberg, journalist - The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (book)
Week of September 15, 2014
- 09.18.14 - Jessica Chastain, actor - Miss Julie (film)
- 09.17.14 - TBD
- 09.16.14 - Bill Hader, Actor & Comedian - The Skeleton Twins (film)
- 09.15.14 - Ken Burns, Filmmaker - The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (film)
Week of September 8, 2014
- 09.11.14 - Tavis Smiley, PBS host & author - Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year (book)
- 09.10.14 - Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN
- 09.09.14 - Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator & author - Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World (book)
- 09.08.14 - Repeat Show
Week of September 1, 2014
- 09.04.14 - Adam Levine, musician & lead singer of Maroon 5 - V (album)
- 09.03.14 - Rory Kennedy, filmmaker - Last Days in Vietnam (documentary)
- 09.02.14 - Ramita Navai, journalist & author - City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran (book)
- 09.01.14 - No New Show b/c of Labour Day
Week of August 25, 2014
- 08.28.14 - Todd Glass, comedian - The Todd Glass Situation: A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Stand-Up Comedy (book)
- 08.27.14 - Hassan Abbas, professor and author - The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier (book)
- 08.26.14 - David Rose, entrepreneur and instructor at the MIT Media Lab - Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things (book)
- 08.25.14 - Repeat Show b/c of Emmys
Weeks of August 11, 2014 and August 18, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show are on holiday for two weeks
Week of August 4, 2014
- 08.07.14 - Tracy Droz Tragos, director - Rich Hill (documentary)
- 08.06.14 - Wu-Tang Clan, band - A Better Tomorrow (album)
- 08.05.14 - Helen Thorpe, author - Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War (book)
- 08.04.14 - Elisabeth Moss, actor - The One I Love (movie)
Week of July 28, 2014
- 07.31.14 - Aubrey Plaza, actor - Life After Beth (movie)
- 07.30.14 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor - The Honorable Woman (TV Series)
- 07.29.14 - Sara Firth, former correspondent for Russian Television - no book
- 07.28.14 - Sonia Nazario, Author and Journalist - Enrique's Journey (book)
Week of July 21, 2014
- 07.24.14 - Fareed Zakaria, journalist - CNN’s "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
- 07.23.14 - George Takei, actor - To Be Takei (documentary)
- 07.22.14 - Richard Linklater, director - Boyhood (movie)
- 07.21.14 - Sue Turton, journalist for Al Jazeera English - no book
Week of July 14, 2014
- 07.17.14 - Emma Stone, actor - Magic in the Moonlight (movie)
- 07.16.14 - Jerry Seinfeld, entertainer - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (web series)
- 07.15.14 - Hilary Clinton, former US Secretary of State - Hard Choices (book)
- 07.14.14 - Dahlia Lithwick, journalist - articles on courts and the law at Slate
Weeks of June 30, 2014 and July 7, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show team are on holiday for two weeks
Week of June 23, 2014
- 06.26.14 - Melissa McCarthy, actor - Tammy (movie)
- 06.25.14 - Keira Knightly, actor - Begin Again (movie)
- 06.24.14 - Jennifer Esposito, actor - Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease--What Doctors Don’t Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again (book)
- 06.23.14 - Bill Maher, entertainer - Real Time with Bill Maher (TV Show)
Week of June 16, 2014
- 06.19.14 - Hamid Al-Bayati, former Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations - no book
- 06.18.14 - Kevin Hart, actor - Think Like a Man Too (movie)
- 06.17.14 - Daniel Schulman, author - Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (book)
- 06.16.14 - Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks - no book
Week of June 9, 2014
- 06.12.14 - Christopher Walken, actor - Jersey Boys (movie)
- 06.11.14 - Charles Schumer, US Senator (D-NY) -
- 06.10.14 - Sebastian Junger, journalist and filmmaker - Korengal (documentary)
- 06.09.14 - Philip K. Howard, author - The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government (book)
Week of June 2, 2014
- 06.05.14 - Tom Cruise, actor - Edge of Tomorrow (movie)
- 06.04.14 - Gigi Ibrahim, Egyptian activist -
- 06.03.14 - Ricky Gervais, actor - Derek (Netflix series)
- 06.02.14 - Robert De Niro, actor - Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr. (documentary)
Week of May 26, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show team were on holiday this week
Week of May 19, 2014
- 05.22.14 - Drew Barrymore, actor - Blended (movie)
- 05.21.14 - Timothy Geithner, Former Secretary of the Treasury - Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (book)
- 05.20.14 - Aneesh Chopra, Former Chief Technology Officer of the US - Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government (book)
- 05.19.14 - James McAvoy, actor - X-Men: Days of Future Past (movie)
Week of May 12, 2014
- 04.15.14 - Jim Parsons, actor - The Normal Heart (HBO Movie)
- 05.14.14 - Blondie, band - Blondie 4(0) Ever (album)
- 05.13.14 - Ron Suskind, journalist and author - Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism (book)
- 05.12.14 - Dr. Martin Blaser, microbiologist and author - Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues (book)
Week of May 5, 2014
- 05.08.14 - Katie Couric, journalist - Fed Up (documentary)
- 05.07.14 - Seth Rogen, actor - Neighbors (movie)
- 05.06.14 - Peter Schuck, professor at Yale Law School - Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (book)
- 05.05.14 - Mariano Rivera, former New York Yankee - The Closer (book)
Week of April 28, 2014
- 05.01.14 - David Spade, comedian - David Spade: My Fake Problems (TV Special)
- 04.30.14 - Martin Gilens & Benjamin Page, political scientists - Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens (academic paper (PDF link)) plus Gilens’ book Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
- 04.29.14 - William Cohan, author - The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities (book)
- 04.28.14 - Mookie Wilson, former Mets player - Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the ’86 Mets (book)
Week of April 21, 2014
- 04.24.14 - Ramachandra Guha, author - Ghandi Before India (book)
- 04.23.14 - Robin Roberts, Anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America” - Everybody's Got Something (book)
- 04.22.14 - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, US Senator, D-MA - A Fighting Chance (book)
- 04.21.14 - Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator - no book
Week of April 14, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show team were on Easter Break
Week of April 7, 2014
- 04.10.14 - Jennifer Garner, actor - Draft Day (movie)
- 04.09.14 - Colin Firth, actor - The Railway Man (movie)
- 04.08.14 - Denis Leary, actor - Draft Day (movie)
- 04.07.14 - Matt Taibbi, author & journalist - The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (book)
Week of March 31, 2014
- 04.03.14 - Pelé, former professional soccer player - Why Soccer Matters (book)
- 04.02.14 - Samuel L. Jackson, actor - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (movie)
- 04.01.14 - Michael Lewis, author & financial journalist - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (book) | he also mentioned http://iamaninvestor.org/
- 03.31.14 - Peter Dinklage, actor - Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Week of March 24, 2014
- 03.27.14 - Nate Silver, founder and editor in chief - FiveThirtyEight.com
- 03.26.14 - Jude Law, actor - Dom Hemingway (movie)
- 03.25.14 - Amy Yates Wuelfing, author & Gibby Haynes, musician - No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes (book)
- 03.24.14 - Arianna Huffington - Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder (book)
Week of March 17, 2014
Jon and The Daily Show team were on Spring Break
Week of March 10, 2014
- 03.13.14 - Anita Hill, Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University - Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (movie)
- 03.12.14 - Jason Bateman, actor & director - Bad Words (movie)
- 03.11.14 - Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News Channel - no book
- 03.10.14 - Paul Taylor, executive vice president of special projects at the Pew Research Center - The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown (book)
Week of March 3, 2014
- 03.06.14 - Kimberly Marten, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College - no book
- 03.05.14 - Rachel Maddow, TV host - The Rachel Maddow Show (TV News Show)
- 03.04.14 - Jim DeMint, former US senator - Falling in Love with America Again (book)
- 03.03.14 - Seth MacFarlane, writer/actor - A Million Ways to Die in the West (book)
Week of February 24, 2014
- 02.27.14 - Kevin Roose, author - Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits (book)
- 02.26.14 - Liam Neeson, actor - Non-Stop (movie)
- 02.25.14 - Michio Kaku, theoretical physisist - The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (book)
- 02.24.14 - Hooman Majd, journalist and author - The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran (book)
Week of February 17, 2014
- 02.20.14 - Ronan Farrow, journalist - Ronan Farrow Daily (TV Show)
- 02.19.14 - David O. Russell, director - (movie)
- 02.18.14 - Kevin Spacey, actor - House of Cards (Netflix Show)
- 02.17.14 - repeat show
Week of February 10, 2014
- 02.13.14 - repeat show
- 02.12.14 - Joel Kinnaman, actor - RoboCop (movie)
- 02.11.14 - Elizabeth Kolbert, author - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (book)
- 02.10.14 - Ty Burrell, actor - Mr. Peabody and Sherman (movie)
Week of February 3, 2014
- 02.06.14 - Robyn Doolittle, reporter - Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story (book)
- 02/05.14 - George Clooney, actor - The Monuments Men (movie). Also, it's a book! The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- 02.04.14 - Elizabeth Banks, actor - The Lego Movie (movie)
- 02.03.14 - Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City - no book
Week of January 27, 2014
- 01.30.14 - Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader - no book
- 01.29.14 - Johnny Knoxville, actor - Bad Grandpa (movie)
- 01.28.14 - Louis C.K., entertainer - Tomorrow Night (movie)
- 01.27.14 - Jeff Garlin, actor - The Goldbergs (TV Show)
Week of January 20, 2014
- 01.23.14 - Anjan Sundaram, journalist - Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (book)
- 01.22.14 - Hari Sreenivasan, Senior Correspondent, Director of Digital Partnerships for PBS NewsHour - no book
- 01.21.14 - Theresa Payton, former Whitehouse CIO and cybersecurity consultant - Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family (book)
- 01.20.14 - Marilynne Roach, historian and author - Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials (book)
Week of January 13, 2014
- 01.16.14 - Steven Brill, columnist for TIME - no book
- 01.15.14 - Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense - Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (book)
- 01.14.14 - Tim Gunn, fashion consultant extrordinaire - Under the Gunn (TV show)
- 01.13.14 - Roger Ross Williams, director - God Loves Uganda (movie)
Week of January 6, 2014
- 01.09.14 - Scarlett Johansson, actor - Her (movie)
- 01.08.14 - Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - no book
- 01.07.14 - Steve Coogan, actor - Philomena (movie)
- 01.06.14 - Oscar Isaac, actor - Inside Llewyn Davis (movie)
