# List of The Daily Show episodes (2012)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2012.

## 2012
### January

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| January 3 | Charles Barkley | Inside the NBA, Weight Watchers |
| January 4 | Elizabeth Dowling Taylor | Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling (March 11, 2024). A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-10893-6. |
| January 5 | Craig Shirley | Shirley, Craig (March 11, 2024). December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-1-59555-457-4. |
| January 9 | George Lucas | Red Tails |
| January 10 | Andrew Napolitano | |
| January 11 | Jim DeMint | Demint, Senator Jim (March 11, 2024). Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse. Center Street. ISBN 978-1-4555-1184-6. |
| January 12 | Dolly Parton | Joyful Noise |
| January 16 | Jodi Kantor | Kantor, Jodi (March 11, 2024). The Obamas. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-09875-5. |
| January 17 | Liam Neeson | The Grey |
| January 18 | Joe Nocera | |
| January 19 | Elizabeth Banks | Man on a Ledge |
| January 23 | Kathleen Sebelius | Health and Human Services Secretary |
| January 24 | Elizabeth Warren | D- Candidate for U.S. Senate, Massachusetts |
| January 25 | Paula Broadwell | All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Penguin Press. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59420-318-3. |
| January 26 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| January 30 | Lou Dobbs | Lou Dobbs Tonight |
| January 31 | Jonathan Macey | professor, Yale Law School |

### February

| 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. |

### March

| 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. |

### April

| 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 |

### May

| 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 |

### June

| 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 |

### July

| 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. |

### August

| 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 | |

### September

| 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 |

### October

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| October 1 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Petre, Peter (October 2012). Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-6243-6. |
| October 2 | Liam Neeson | Taken 2 |
| October 3 | Rand Paul | Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds ISBN 978-1455522750 |
| October 4 | Bill O'Reilly | O'Reilly, Bill; Dugard, Martin (October 2, 2012). Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-9666-8. |
| October 8 | Pete Townshend | Townshend, Pete (October 8, 2012). Who I Am: A Memoir. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-212724-2. |
| October 9 | Ben Affleck | Argo |
| October 10 | Magic Johnson | Spokesperson for OraQuick |
| October 11 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
| October 15 | J. K. Rowling | Rowling, J. K. (March 11, 2024). The Casual Vacancy. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-4087-0420-2. |
| October 16 | Eugene Jarecki | The House I Live In |
| October 17 | Nate Silver | Silver, Nate (September 27, 2012). The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don't. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-411-1. |
| October 18 | President Barack Obama |
| October 22 | D. L. Hughley | The Endangered List |
| October 23 | Gerard Butler | Chasing Mavericks |
| October 24 | Dakota Meyer | Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War. Random House. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-8129-9340-0. |
| October 25 | Nancy Pelosi | Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives |
| October 31 | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon (March 11, 2024). Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries. Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59463-137-5. |

### November

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| November 1 | Bob Woodruff | The Bob Woodruff Foundation's Stand Up For Heroes |
| November 5 | Martha Raddatz | American reporter with ABC News |
| November 6 | Election Night: This Ends Now | Live coverage of the United States Presidential Election |
| November 7 | Nate Silver | Silver, Nate (March 11, 2024). The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don't. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-411-1. |
| November 8 | Katie Dellamaggiore and Pobo Efekoro | Brooklyn Castle |
| November 12 | Mike Huckabee | Dear Chandler, Dear Scarlett: A Grandfather's Thoughts on Faith, Family, and the Things That Matter Most. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59523-093-5. |
| November 13 | Jason Sudeikis | Saturday Night Live |
| November 14 | Jon Meacham | Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Random House. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4000-6766-4. |
| November 15 | Andrew Napolitano | Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom. ISBN 978-1-59555-351-5. |
| November 26 | David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. Penguin Press. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59420-376-3. |
| November 27 | Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis | Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012. ISBN 978-1-59184-573-7. |
| November 28 | Neil Young | Waging Heavy Peace. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-399-15946-6. |
| November 29 | Calvin Trillin | Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. Random House of Canada, Limited. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-8129-9368-4. |

### December

| 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 |