# List of The Daily Show episodes (2009)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2009.

## 2009
### January

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| January 5 | David Gregory | TV show Meet The Press |
| January 6 | Michael Wolff | Book The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch |
| January 7 | Rachel Maddow | TV show The Rachel Maddow Show |
| January 8 | Dana Perino | White House Press Secretary |
| January 12 | Maxwell Kennedy | Book Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her |
| January 13 | Daniel Craig | Film Defiance |
| January 14 | Fareed Zakaria | TV show Fareed Zakaria GPS |
| January 15 | Bethany McLean | Discussion on corporate corruption |
| January 19 | Abderrahim Foukara | Washington Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera International |
| January 20 | Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson | Bishop of New Hampshire |
| January 21 | David Sanger | The New York Times White House Correspondent |
| January 22 | Liam Neeson | Film Taken |
| January 26 | President Jimmy Carter | Book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land |
| January 27 | Gwen Ifill | Book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama |
| January 28 | Neil DeGrasse Tyson | Book The Pluto Files and asteroid 99942 Apophis |
| January 29 | P. W. Singer | Book Wired for War |

### February

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| February 2 | Lawrence Lindsey | Book What A President Should Know: An Insider's View on How to Succeed in the Oval Office |
| February 3 | Dev Patel | Film Slumdog Millionaire |
| February 4 | Karen Greenberg | Book The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days |
| February 5 | Randall Balmer | Book God in the White House: A History |
| February 9 | Walter Isaacson | Article "How to Save Your Newspaper" in Time Magazine |
| February 10 | Thomas Ricks | Book The Gamble |
| February 11 | Daniel Sperling | Book Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability |
| February 12 | John Sununu | Solutions for the economic crisis |
| February 23 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon Kindle 2 |
| February 24 | Ricky Gervais | Podcast The Ricky Gervais Guide to... |
| February 25 | Tom Selleck | TV film Jesse Stone: Thin Ice |
| February 26 | Brian Williams | TV show NBC Nightly News |

### March

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| March 2 | Harold Varmus | Book The Art and Politics of Science |
| March 3 | Sandra Day O'Connor | OurCourts.org |
| March 4 | Joe Nocera | Nocera's New York Times column |
| March 5 | Billy Crudup | Film Watchmen |
| March 9 | Nathaniel Frank | Book Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America |
| March 10 | Craig Mullaney | Book The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education |
| March 11 | Paul Rudd | Film I Love You, Man |
| March 12 | Jim Cramer | TV show Mad Money and Jon Stewart's recent criticisms of CNBC. |
| March 16 | Gen. Richard B. Myers | Book Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security |
| March 17 | Ian McShane | TV show Kings |
| March 18 | Nandan Nilekani | Book Imagining India |
| March 19 | Bruce Springsteen | Album Working on a Dream |
| March 30 | Jack Cafferty | Book Now or Never: Getting Down to the Business of Saving Our American Dream |
| March 31 | Seth Rogen | Film Observe and Report |

### April

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| April 1 | Peter R. Orszag | Director of the Office of Management and Budget |
| April 2 | Tom Zoellner | Book Uranium |
| April 6 | Michael J. Fox | Book Always Looking Up |
| April 7 | Jehan Al Sadat | Book My Hope for Peace |
| April 8 | Nancy Pelosi | Book Know Your Power and recent legislation during the Obama administration |
| April 9 | William D. Cohan | Book House of Cards |
| April 14 | Ron Darling | Book The Complete Game |
| April 15 | Elizabeth Warren | Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel over the Troubled Asset Relief Program |
| April 16 | Ben Affleck | Film State of Play |
| April 20 | Reza Aslan | Book How to Win a Cosmic War |
| April 21 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Book This Child Will Be Great |
| April 22 | Philip Alcabes | Book Dread |
| April 23 | Richard Beeman | Book Plain Honest Men |
| April 27 | Christine Lagarde | French Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment |
| April 28 | Clifford May | Foundation for Defense of Democracies |
| April 29 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
| April 30 | Hugh Jackman | Film X-Men Origins: Wolverine |

### May

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| May 4 | Denis Leary | TV show Rescue Me |
| May 5 | Fareed Zakaria | Book The Post-American World |
| May 6 | George Stephanopoulos | TV show This Week with George Stephanopoulos |
| May 7 | Ken Salazar | United States Secretary of the Interior |
| May 11 | Frank Partnoy | Book The Match King |
| May 12 | Tom Hanks | Film Angels & Demons |
| May 13 | Husain Haqqani | Pakistan Ambassador to the United States |
| May 14 | Lisa P. Jackson | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
| May 18 | Sarah Fisher | 2009 Indianapolis 500 |
| May 19 | Newt Gingrich | Book 5 Principles for a Successful Life |
| May 20 | Elizabeth Edwards | Book Resilience |
| May 21 | Larry King | Book My Remarkable Journey |

### June

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| June 1 | Bob Woodruff | TV documentary Earth 2100 |
| June 2 | P.J. O'Rourke | Book Driving Like Crazy |
| June 3 | Michael Lewis | Book Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood |
| June 4 | Will Ferrell | Film Land of the Lost |
| June 8 | Gretchen Peters | Book Seeds of Terror |
| June 9 | Peter Schiff | Book The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets |
| June 10 | Saad Mohseni | Documentary Afghan Star |
| June 11 | Katie Couric | TV show CBS Evening News |
| June 15 | Ed Helms | Film The Hangover |
| June 16 | Tom Folsom | Book The Mad Ones |
| June 17 | Peter Laufer | Book The Dangerous World of Butterflies |
| June 18 | Mike Huckabee | Former Governor of Arkansas, talking on abortion in the United States |
| June 22 | Bill Russell | Book Red and Me |
| June 23 | Larry David | Film Whatever Works |
| June 24 | Reza Aslan | Book How to Win a Cosmic War |
| June 25 | Cameron Diaz | Film My Sister's Keeper |
| June 29 | Oliver Sacks | Book Musicophilia |
| June 30 | Mike Kim | Book Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country |

### July

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| July 1 | Justin Fox | Book The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street |
| July 2 | Robert Kenner | Film Food, Inc. |
| July 13 | Barney Frank | Chairman of the United States House Committee on Financial Services |
| July 14 | Peter Mancall | Book Fatal Journey |
| July 15 | Kathleen Sebelius | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, talking on the stimulus bill |
| July 16 | Robert Glennon | Book Unquenchable |
| July 20 | Brian Williams | |
| July 21 | Steven Chu | United States Secretary of Energy |
| July 22 | Kevin Nealon | TV show Weeds |
| July 23 | Sally Jenkins | Book The State of Jones |
| July 27 | Bill Kristol | Criticism of the Obama administration and United States health care reform |
| July 28 | Spinal Tap | Album Back from the Dead |
| July 29 | John R. Bolton | Support for military action against Iran |
| July 30 | Judd Apatow | Film Funny People |

### August

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| August 3 | Ronald Kessler | Book In the President's Secret Service |
| August 4 | Henry Waxman (D-CA) | Chairman of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce |
| August 5 | Paul Giamatti | Film Cold Souls |
| August 6 | Dara Torres | Book Age is Just a Number |
| August 10 | Douglas Brinkley | Book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America |
| August 11 | Austan Goolsbee | Economic Adviser to President Barack Obama |
| August 12 | Larry Lawton (skit) and Jeff Sharlet (interview) | Book The Family: Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power |
| August 13 | Rachel McAdams | Movie The Time Traveler's Wife |
| August 17 | David Cross | Book I Drink For A Reason |
| August 18 | Christopher McDougall | Book Born To Run (see Tarahumara and Copper Canyon) |
| August 19 | Tim Gunn | TV show Project Runway |
| August 20 | Betsy McCaughey | Former Lieutenant Governor of New York, critical of the 2009 health care reform proposals |

### September

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| September 14 | LeBron James | Book Shooting Stars |
| September 15 | Matt Damon | Film The Informant! |
| September 16 | Ricky Gervais | Film The Invention of Lying |
| September 17 | President Bill Clinton | Mission to North Korea and health care reform |
| September 22 | Vali Nasr | Book Forces of Fortune: The Rise of a New Muslim Middle Class and What It Means for Our World |
| September 23 | Tom Ridge | Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
| September 24 | Rod Blagojevich | Defense against 2008 corruption charges. Interview announced on August 13 after a segment about Blagojevich. |
| September 28 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Book The Predictioneer's Game |
| September 29 | Ron Paul | Book End The Fed |
| September 30 | Jon Krakauer | Book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman |

### October

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| October 1 | Joy Behar | TV show The Joy Behar Show |
| October 5 | Sarah Vowell | Book The Wordy Shipmates |
| October 6 | Ray Mabus | United States Secretary of the Navy |
| October 7 | William Kamkwamba | Book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind |
| October 8 | David Gregory | TV show Meet the Press |
| October 12 | Janet Napolitano | United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
| October 13 | Chesley Sullenberger | Book Highest Duty |
| October 14 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Book Bright-Sided |
| October 15 | Jennifer Burns | Book Goddess of the Market |
| October 26 | Susie Essman | Book What Would Susie Say |
| October 27 | Steven Levitt | Book SuperFreakonomics |
| October 28 | Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer | Peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| October 29 | Wanda Sykes | TV show The Wanda Sykes Show |

### November

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| November 2 | Bob Menendez | Book Growing American Roots: Why Our Nation Will Thrive as Our Largest Minority Flourishes |
| November 3 | David Plouffe | Book The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory |
| November 4 | Al Gore | Book Our Choice |
| November 5 | Susan Rice | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| November 9 | Kit Bond | Book The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam |
| November 10 | Serena Williams | Book On the Line |
| November 11 | Clarence Clemons | Book Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales |
| November 12 | Jane Goodall | The Jane Goodall Institute |
| November 16 | Jake Adelstein | Book Tokyo Vice |
| November 17 | Joe Biden | Vice President of the United States |
| November 18 | Lou Dobbs | Radio show The Lou Dobbs Show |
| November 19 | Jack's Mannequin | Album The Glass Passenger |
| November 30 | Maziar Bahari | Discusses his four-month-long imprisonment in Iran, due to an interview on a previous Daily Show episode. |

### December

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| December 1 | Thomas Friedman | Paperback book Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America |
| December 2 | Lance Armstrong | Book Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal |
| December 3 | Michael Specter | Book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives |
| December 7 | Dan Rather | Former Anchor CBS Evening News |
| December 8 | Mike Huckabee | Former Governor of Arkansas |
| December 9 | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Book Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of how Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves |
| December 10 | Gwen Ifill | Book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama |
| December 14 | Sigourney Weaver | Film Avatar |
| December 15 | Ray LaHood | United States Secretary of Transportation |
| December 16 | Hugh Grant | Film Did You Hear About the Morgans? |