# List of The Daily Show episodes (2008)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2008.

## 2008
### January

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| January 7 | Ronald Seeber | |
| January 8 | David Frum | Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again |
| January 9 | John Zogby | |
| January 10 | Lou Dobbs | Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit |
| January 14 | Fareed Zakaria | |
| January 15 | John Bolton | Surrender Is Not An Option |
| January 16 | Jonah Goldberg | Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning |
| January 17 | Allen Raymond | How To Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative |
| January 21 | Jon Meacham | |
| January 22 | Jim Wallis | The Great Awakening |
| January 23 | P. J. O'Rourke | On the Wealth of Nations |
| January 24 | Gerri Willis | Open House |
| January 28 | Phil Simms | The NFL on CBS |
| January 29 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| January 30 | Peggy Noonan | |
| January 31 | Karen Tumulty | |

### February

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| February 4 | Stephen Colbert | The Colbert Report (Who Made Huckabee?) |
| February 4 | Conan O'Brien | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Who Made Huckabee?) |
| February 4 | Tim Gunn | Project Runway |
| February 5 | Chris Wallace | Fox News Sunday |
| February 6 | Tom Brokaw | Boom! - Voices of the Sixties - Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today |
| February 7 | Laton McCartney | The Teapot Dome Scandal |
| February 11 | Philip Shenon | The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation |
| February 12 | Bill Kristol | |
| February 13 | Mark Siegel | Benazir Bhutto: Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West |
| February 14 | Lee Siegel | Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob |
| February 26 | Madeleine Albright | Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership |
| February 27 | Allen Guelzo | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America |
| February 28 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |

### March

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| March 3 | Hillary Clinton | |
| March 4 | Ralph Nader | The Seventeen Traditions |
| March 5 | Martin Fletcher | Breaking News |
| March 6 | Tom Daschle | Critical: What We Can Do About The Health-Care Crisis |
| March 10 | Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell | |
| March 11 | Grover G. Norquist | Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives |
| March 12 | Ronald Kessler | The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack |
| March 13 | Dana Perino | |
| March 17 | Brian Fagan | The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations |
| March 18 | Jeffrey Sachs | Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet |
| March 19 | Arlen Specter | Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate |
| March 20 | Alex Kingsbury | U.S. News & World Report |
| March 31 | Chuck Hagel | America: Our Next Chapter |

### April

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| April 1 | Simon LeVay | When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery |
| April 2 | William Safire | Safire's Political Dictionary |
| April 3 | George Clooney | Leatherheads |
| April 7 | Nathan Lane | November |
| April 8 | Cokie Roberts | Ladies Of Liberty |
| April 9 | Steve Coll | The Bin Ladens |
| April 10 | Aram Roston | The Man Who Pushed America To War |
| April 14 | Judd Apatow | Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
| April 15 | Jack Goldsmith | The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration |
| April 16 | Peter Steinfels | |
| April 17 | Uma Thurman | The Life Before Her Eyes |
| April 21 | Barack Obama | |
| April 22 | John Waters | Cry-Baby |
| April 23 | Howard Fineman | The Thirteen American Arguments |
| April 24 | Colin Firth | Then She Found Me |
| April 28 | President Jimmy Carter | A Remarkable Mother |
| April 29 | Newt Gingrich | Days Of Infamy |
| April 30 | Robert Schlesinger | White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters |

### May

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| May 1 | Howard Dean | |
| May 5 | Harry Reid | The Good Fight: Hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington |
| May 6 | Fareed Zakaria | The Post-American World |
| May 7 | John McCain | |
| May 8 | David D. Perlmutter | Blog Wars |
| May 12 | Douglas J. Feith | War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism |
| May 13 | Bill Moyers | Moyers on Democracy |
| May 14 | John Harwood | Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles In Backroom Power |
| May 15 | Denis Leary | Recount, Rescue Me |
| May 27 | Matt Taibbi | The Great Derangement |
| May 28 | Fred Burton | Ghost |
| May 29 | Richard A. Clarke | Your Government Failed You |

### June

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| June 2 | Scott McClellan | What Happened |
| June 3 | David Sedaris | When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
| June 4 | Barbara Walters | Audition |
| June 5 | Adam Sandler | You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
| June 9 | Jim Webb | A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America |
| June 10 | Ralph Reed | Dark Horse |
| June 11 | Rick Shenkman | Just How Stupid Are We? |
| June 12 | Richard Engel | War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq |
| June 16 | David Iglesias | In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration |
| June 17 | Lara Logan | |
| June 18 | Steve Carell | Get Smart |
| June 19 | Mike Myers | The Love Guru |
| June 23 | James McAvoy | Wanted |
| June 24 | James Harding | Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business |
| June 25 | Coldplay | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| June 26 | Ted Koppel | Koppel on Discovery: The People's Republic of Capitalism |

### July

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| July 14 | Andrew Ward | The Slaves War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves |
| July 15 | Pierce Brosnan | Mamma Mia! |
| July 16 | Kenneth Pollack | A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East |
| July 17 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Dark Knight |
| July 21 | Richard Bitner | Confessions of a Subprime Lender: An Insider's Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance |
| July 22 | Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly | Step Brothers |
| July 23 | T.J. English | Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution |
| July 24 | Geo Beach | History Channel: Tougher In Alaska |
| July 28 | Rep. Nancy Pelosi | Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters |
| July 29 | Bill Bishop | The Big Sort |
| July 30 | Ben Wattenberg | Fighting Words |
| July 31 | Brian Williams | |

### August

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| August 4 | Dennis Hopper | Elegy |
| August 5 | Seth Rogen | Pineapple Express |
| August 6 | Chuck Schumer | Positively American: How the Democrats Can Win in 2008 |
| August 7 | David Gregory | |
| August 11 | Ron Suskind | The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism |
| August 12 | Mel Martinez | A Sense of Belonging |
| August 13 | Philip P. Pan | Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China |
| August 14 | Ben Stiller | Tropic Thunder |
| August 26 | Tim Kaine | |
| August 27 | Howard Dean | |
| August 28 | Evan Bayh | |
| August 29 | (no guest) | |

### September

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| September 2 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |
| September 3 | Newt Gingrich | Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis |
| September 4 | Mike Huckabee | |
| September 5 | (no guest) | |
| September 15 | Barton Gellman | Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency |
| September 16 | Ricky Gervais | Ghost Town |
| September 17 | Charlize Theron | Battle in Seattle |
| September 18 | Tony Blair | |
| September 23 | Bill Clinton | Clinton Global Initiative |
| September 24 | Aaron Eckhart | Towelhead |
| September 25 | Bob Schieffer | |
| September 29 | Hooman Majd | The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Islam |
| September 30 | Bill Maher | Religulous |

### October

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| October 1 | Gideon Rose | |
| October 1 | Peggy Noonan | Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now |
| October 2 | Clint Eastwood | Changeling |
| October 6 | Tim Robbins | City of Ember |
| October 7 | Sarah Vowell | The Wordy Shipmates |
| October 8 | Michelle Obama | |
| October 9 | Robert De Niro | What Just Happened |
| October 13 | Amity Shlaes | The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression |
| October 14 | Ari Fleischer | |
| October 15 | Richard Lewis | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| October 16 | Robert Reich | Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life |
| October 20 | Eugene Jarecki | The American Way of War |
| October 21 | Christopher Buckley | Supreme Courtship |
| October 22 | Tom Brokaw | Boom! |
| October 23 | Jon Corzine |
| October 27 | Campbell Brown | CNN Election Center, Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull |
| October 28 | Steve Martin | "Born Standing Up" |
| October 29 | Barack Obama | 2008 United States presidential election |
| October 30 | Bill Kristol | The Weekly Standard |

### November

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| November 3 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| November 4 | Indecision 2008 Live Election Night Special | |
| November 5 | Chris Wallace | Fox News Sunday |
| November 6 | Paul Rudd | Role Models |
| November 11 | Thomas L. Friedman | Hot, Flat, and Crowded |
| November 12 | T. Boone Pickens | The First Billion is the Hardest |
| November 13 | Bill O'Reilly | A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity |
| November 17 | David Frost | Frost-Nixon: The Original Watergate Interview |
| November 18 | Denis Leary | Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid |
| November 19 | Jon Meacham | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House |
| November 20 | Richard Belzer | I Am Not A Cop |

### December

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| December 1 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married |
| December 2 | Calvin Trillin | Deciding The Next Decider |
| December 3 | Arianna Huffington | The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging |
| December 4 | Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon |
| December 8 | Matthew Alexander | How to Break a Terrorist |
| December 9 | Mike Huckabee | From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Stops to Restoring America's Greatness |
| December 10 | Don Rickles | Rickles' Book |
| December 11 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt |