# List of The Daily Show episodes (2004)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2004.

## 2004
### January

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| January 6 | Tom Brokaw | A Long Way From Home |
| January 7 | Elijah Wood | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| January 8 | Charlize Theron | Monster |
| January 12 | Richard Lewis | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| January 13 | Catherine Weitz | NASA |
| January 14 | Carol Moseley-Braun | Presidential candidate |
| January 15 | Joe Biden | |
| January 19 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Along Came Polly |
| January 20 | Jeff Garlin | Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| January 21 | Sen. John McCain | None |
| January 22 | Erika Christensen | The Perfect Score |
| January 26 | Ken Auletta | None |
| January 27 | Richard Perle | An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror (ISBN 1-4000-6194-6) |
| January 28 | Christine Todd Whitman | |
| January 29 | Kelsey Grammer | Frasier |

### February

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| February 2 | Randy Jackson | American Idol; What's Up Dawg?: How to Become a Superstar in the Music Business (ISBN 1-4013-0774-4) |
| February 3 | Donald Trump | The Apprentice |
| February 4 | Bob Dole | None |
| February 5 | Noah Wyle | ER |
| February 9 | Charles Lewis | The Buying of the President 2004 (ISBN 0-06-054853-3) |
| February 10 | Dave Chappelle | Chappelle's Show |
| February 11 | Paul Rudd | Friends |
| February 12 | Drew Barrymore | 50 First Dates |
| February 23 | Tyra Banks | America's Next Top Model |
| February 24 | John Podhoretz | Bush Country |
| February 25 | Norah Jones | Feels like Home |
| February 26 | Samuel L. Jackson | Twisted |

### March

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| March 1 | Edie Falco | The Sopranos |
| March 2 | Mark Ebner | Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity (ISBN 0-471-70624-8) |
| March 3 | Rudolph Giuliani | None |
| March 4 | Willem Dafoe | The Reckoning |
| March 8 | Val Kilmer | Spartan |
| March 9 | Ed Gillespie | None |
| March 10 | George Carlin | Jersey Girl |
| March 11 | Paula Zahn | Paula Zahn Now |
| March 15 | Sen. Charles Schumer | None |
| March 16 | John Stossel | Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... (ISBN 0-06-052914-8) |
| March 17 | Mekhi Phifer | Dawn of the Dead |
| March 18 | Ethan Hawke | Taking Lives |
| March 22 | Wynton Marsalis | |
| March 23 | Tom Hanks | The Ladykillers |
| March 24 | Jamie Foxx | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story |
| March 25 | Al Franken | The O'Franken Factor (later renamed The Al Franken Show) |
| March 29 | Jennifer Beals | The L Word |
| March 30 | Richard A. Clarke | Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (ISBN 0-7432-6024-4) |
| March 31 | Karen Hughes | Ten Minutes from Normal (ISBN 0-670-03305-7) |

### April

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| April 1 | Johnny Knoxville | Walking Tall |
| April 5 | Jerry Seinfeld | American Express commercials |
| April 6 | Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis | The Whole Ten Yards |
| April 7 | Tim Robbins | Embedded |
| April 8 | Jason Bateman | Arrested Development |
| April 19 | Melissa Etheridge | Lucky |
| April 20 | Mark Ruffalo | 13 Going on 30 |
| April 21 | John Gibson | Hating America: The New World Sport (ISBN 0-06-058010-0) |
| April 22 | Arianna Huffington | Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (ISBN 1-4013-5213-8) |
| April 26 | Bob Kerrey | None |
| April 27 | Rebecca Romijn | Godsend |
| April 28 | Fareed Zakaria | The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (ISBN 0-393-04764-4) |
| April 29 | Bob Woodward | Plan of Attack (ISBN 0-7432-5547-X) |

### May

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| May 3 | Janeane Garofalo | The Majority Report |
| May 4 | Joseph C. Wilson | The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (ISBN 0-7867-1378-X) |
| May 5 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes (ISBN 0-385-50338-5) |
| May 6 | Andy Richter | New York Minute |
| May 10 | Sen. John McCain | Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life (ISBN 1-4000-6030-3) |
| May 11 | Tim Russert | Big Russ and Me: Father and Son—Lessons of Life (ISBN 1-4013-5208-1) |
| May 12 | Ken Mehlman | None |
| May 13 | William Kristol | None |

### June

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| June 1 | David Cross | It's Not Funny |
| June 2 | Thomas Friedman | None |
| June 3 | Mario Cuomo | Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever (ISBN 0-15-100999-6) |
| June 7 | Donna Brazile | None |
| June 8 | David Brooks | |
| June 9 | Morgan Spurlock | Super Size Me |
| June 10 | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Garfield: The Movie |
| June 14 | Stanley Tucci | The Terminal |
| June 15 | Hassan Ibrahim | Al Jazeera |
| June 16 | Robert Reich | |
| June 17 | Graham Norton | The Graham Norton Effect |
| June 21 | Stephen F. Hayes | The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America (ISBN 0-06-074673-4) |
| June 22 | Ashley Judd | De-Lovely |
| June 23 | Kevin Kline | De-Lovely |
| June 24 | Michael Moore | Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| June 28 | Terry McAuliffe | None |
| June 29 | Edward Conlon | Blue Blood (ISBN 1-57322-266-6) |
| June 30 | Calvin Trillin | Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (ISBN 1-4000-6288-8) |

### July

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| July 6 | Ralph Nader (show hosted by Stephen Colbert) | The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap (ISBN 0-06-075604-7); Presidential candidate |
| July 7 | Will Ferrell | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy |
| July 8 | Christina Applegate | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy |
| July 12 | Wolf Blitzer | None |
| July 13 | Michael Isikoff | None |
| July 14 | Sarah Vowell | The Partly Cloudy Patriot |
| July 15 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Da Ali G Show |
| July 27 | Gov. Bill Richardson | 2004 Democratic National Convention |
| July 28 | Sen. Joe Biden | 2004 Democratic National Convention |
| July 29 | None | 2004 Democratic National Convention |
| July 30 | None | 2004 Democratic National Convention |

### August

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| August 2 | Rep. Henry Bonilla | None |
| August 3 | Spike Lee | She Hate Me |
| August 4 | Aaron Eckhart | Suspect Zero |
| August 5 | Natalie Portman | Garden State |
| August 9 | Bill Clinton | My Life (ISBN 0-375-41457-6) |
| August 10 | Maureen Dowd | Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (ISBN 0-399-15258-X) |
| August 11 | Tom Cruise | Collateral |
| August 12 | Bryan Keefer | None |
| August 17 | Norm Coleman | None |
| August 18 | Burt Reynolds | Without a Paddle |
| August 19 | Seth Green | Without a Paddle |
| August 23 | Robert Smith | None |
| August 24 | John Kerry | Democratic Party Presidential candidate |
| August 25 | Ed Gillespie | None |
| August 30 | (None) | Special: Midway to the Election Spectacular |
| August 31 | Ted Koppel | 2004 Republican National Convention |

### September

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| September 1 | Dan Bartlett | 2004 Republican National Convention |
| September 2 | Sen. John McCain | 2004 Republican National Convention |
| September 3 | Chris Matthews | 2004 Republican National Convention |
| September 13 | Drew Barrymore | The Best Place To Start |
| September 14 | Pat Buchanan | Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (ISBN 0-312-34115-6) |
| September 15 | Alec Baldwin | The Last Shot |
| September 16 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow |
| September 21 | Richard Clarke | Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (Paperback) (ISBN 0-7432-6045-7) |
| September 22 | Gov. Marc Racicot | None |
| September 23 | Matthew Broderick | The Last Shot |
| September 27 | Rosie Perez | Reckless |
| September 28 | Ralph Reed | Christian Coalition |
| September 29 | Seymour Hersh | Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib |
| September 30 | Wesley Clark, Rudolph Giuliani | (Post-debate commentary on the first presidential debate of 2004) |

### October

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| October 4 | Bishop Desmond Tutu | None |
| October 5 | Billy Bob Thornton | Friday Night Lights |
| October 6 | Bob Schieffer | Moderator for the third presidential debate of 2004 |
| October 7 | Bill O'Reilly | None |
| October 18 | Ed Koch | Eddie, Harold's Little Brother (ISBN 0-399-24210-4) |
| October 19 | Marisa Tomei | Alfie |
| October 20 | Fareed Zakaria | None |
| October 21 | Billy Crudup | Stage Beauty |
| October 25 | Madeleine Albright | None |
| October 26 | Bob Kerrey | None |
| October 27 | Jesse Jackson | None |
| October 28 | John Zogby | None |

### November

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| November 1 | Chris Wallace | Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage (ISBN 1-59071-038-X) |
| November 2 | William Weld & Al Sharpton | None |
| November 3 | Sen. Charles Schumer | None |
| November 4 | William Kristol | None |
| November 9 | Richard Branson | The Rebel Billionaire |
| November 10 | Tom Wolfe | I Am Charlotte Simmons |
| November 11 | Kenneth Pollack | The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and American (ISBN 1400063159 |
| November 15 | Kay Bailey Hutchison | American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country (ISBN 0-06-056635-3) |
| November 16 | Tom Brokaw | None |
| November 17 | Thomas Frank | What's the Matter with Kansas? (ISBN 0-8050-7339-6) |
| November 18 | Woody Harrelson | After the Sunset |
| November 29 | Jude Law | Closer |
| November 30 | Brian Williams | Stewart: "Heir to the NBC throne" |

### December

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| December 1 | Christopher Hitchens | Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (ISBN 1-56025-580-3) |
| December 2 | Stephen King | Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (ISBN 0-7432-6752-4) |
| December 6 | Isabella Rossellini | Legend of Earthsea on Sci Fi Channel |
| December 7 | Paul O'Neill | None |
| December 8 | Seth Mnookin | Hard News : The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media (ISBN 1-4000-6244-6) |
| December 9 | Kate Bosworth | Beyond the Sea |
| December 13 | Kevin Spacey | Beyond the Sea |
| December 14 | Dore Gold | Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos (ISBN 1-4000-5475-3) |
| December 15 | Billy Connolly | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| December 16 | Katie Couric | The Blue Ribbon Day (ISBN 0-385-50142-0) |