# List of The Daily Show episodes (2011)

This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2011.

## 2011
### January

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| January 3 | Paul Giamatti | Barney's Version |
| January 4 | Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator (D-N.Y.) |
| January 5 | Jimmy Wales | Wikipedia |
| January 6 | Patton Oswalt | Oswalt, Patton (2011). Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4391-4908-9. |
| January 10 | Denis Leary | Leary, Denis (March 11, 2024). Suck On This Year: LYFAO @ 140 Characters or Less. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02289-2. |
| January 11 | Colin Firth | The King's Speech |
| January 12 | Tim Pawlenty | Former Governor of Minnesota |
| January 13 | Ron Howard | Director, The Dilemma |
| January 17 | Peter Bergen | Bergen, Peter L. (January 11, 2011). The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-7893-5. |
| January 18 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | NOVA scienceNOW |
| January 19 | Paul Clemens | Clemens, Paul (January 2011). Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-52115-4. |
| January 20 | Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi | Parazit |
| January 24 | Anand Giridharadas | Giridharadas, Anand (January 4, 2011). India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-9177-9. |
| January 25 | James Franco | 127 Hours |
| January 26 | Jonathan Alter | Alter, Jonathan (January 11, 2011). The Promise: President Obama, Year One. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0120-9. |
| January 27 | T. Boone Pickens | Chairman of BP Capital Management |
| January 31 | Bill Gates | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |

### February

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| February 1 | Michael Steele | Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee |
| February 2 | Matthew Perry | Mr. Sunshine |
| February 3 | Admiral Michael Mullen | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| February 14 | Edward Glaeser | Glaeser, Edward (2011), Triumph of the City: How Our Best Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, New York: Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1-59420-277-3 |
| February 15 | January Jones | Unknown |
| February 16 | Brian Williams | NBC Nightly News |
| February 17 | Ed Gillespie | Republican State Leadership Committee |
| February 21 | Lisa Ling | Our America with Lisa Ling |
| February 22 | Anderson Cooper | Anderson Cooper 360° |
| February 23 | Donald Rumsfeld | Known and Unknown: A Memoir. Sentinel HC. February 8, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59523-067-6. |
| February 24 | Austan Goolsbee | Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers |
| February 28 | Howard Stern | The Howard Stern Show |

### March

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| March 1 | Prince Zeid Ra'ad | Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril. Viking. 2011. ISBN 978-0-670-02171-0. (Authored by King Abdullah II) |
| March 2 | Allison Stanger | Stanger, Allison (March 11, 2024). One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16832-7. |
| March 3 | Diane Ravitch | The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Basic Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-465-01491-0. |
| March 7 | Rand Paul | Paul, Rand (2011). The Tea Party Goes to Washington. Center Street. ISBN 978-1-4555-0311-7. |
| March 8 | Brian Christian | Christian, Brian (March 11, 2024). The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-53306-5. |
| March 9 | Aaron Eckhart | Battle: Los Angeles |
| March 10 | Trey Parker & Matt Stone | The Book of Mormon |
| March 21 | Sarah Vowell | Vowell, Sarah (March 11, 2024). Unfamiliar Fishes. Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-787-3. |
| March 22 | T.J. English | English, T. J. (2011). The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-182455-5. |
| March 23 | Richard Lewis | Misery Loves Company Tour/Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| March 24 | Bret Baier | Special Report with Bret Baier |
| March 28 | Dr. Mansour El-Kikhia | El-Kikhia, Mansour O. (March 11, 1997). Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1585-9. |
| March 29 | Dr. Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis | Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains With Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives. Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-9052-9. |
| March 30 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Source Code |
| March 31 | Norm Macdonald | The Sports Show with Norm Macdonald |

### April

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| April 4 | Billy Crystal | Funny or Die: When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren |
| April 5 | Colin Quinn | Colin Quinn: Long Story Short |
| April 6 | Mike Huckabee | Huckabee, Mike (2011). A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!). Sentinel. ISBN 978-1-59523-073-7. |
| April 7 | Jamie Oliver | Jamie's Food Revolution |
| April 11 | Foo Fighters | Wasting Light |
| April 12 | Deval Patrick | A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life. Broadway Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0-7679-3112-0. |
| April 13 | Tracy Morgan | Rio |
| April 14 | Ricky Gervais | HBO Presents Talking Funny |
| April 25 | Gigi Ibrahim | Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People who Made It. ISBN 978-1-935928-45-4. |
| April 26 | Elizabeth Warren | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| April 27 | Bernie Sanders | The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class. ISBN 978-1-56858-684-7. |
| April 28 | William Cohan | Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. ISBN 978-0-385-52384-4. |

### May

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| May 2 | Philip K. Howard | The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. ISBN 978-0-8129-8274-9. |
| May 3 | Rachel Maddow | The Rachel Maddow Show |
| May 4 | David Barton | WallBuilders |
| May 5 | Jon Meacham | American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic The Civil War: A Narrative. ISBN 978-0-679-64370-8. and Beyond Bin Laden: America and the Future of Terror |
| May 9 | Keira Knightley | Last Night |
| May 10 | Will Ferrell | Everything Must Go |
| May 11 | Albert Brooks | Brooks, Albert (2011). 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-58372-9. |
| May 12 | Kristen Wiig | Bridesmaids |
| May 16 | Jon Ronson | Ronson, Jon (2011). The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-801-6. |
| May 17 | Annie Jacobsen | Jacobsen, Annie (May 17, 2011). Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-13294-7. |
| May 18 | Richard Beeman | Beeman, Richard (February 9, 2010). Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. Random House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8129-7684-7. and Beeman, Richard (August 31, 2010). The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from The Federalist Papers. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311810-7. |
| May 19 | Lisa P. Jackson | Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
| May 31 | Jimmy Fallon | Thank You Notes. Grand Central Pub. 2011. ISBN 978-0-89296-741-4. |

### June

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| June 1 | Bill Moyers | Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues. The New Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-59558-624-7. |
| June 2 | Tim Tebow | Through My Eyes. HarperCollins. 2011. ISBN 978-0-06-200728-5. |
| June 6 | Maziar Bahari | Bahari, Maziar; Molloy, Aimee (March 11, 2024). Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6946-0. |
| June 7 | Fareed Zakaria | The Post-American World: Release 2.0. W. W. Norton. 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-08180-0. |
| June 8 | Larry King | King, Larry (2011). Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-1-60286-130-5. |
| June 9 | Howard Wasdin | SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper. ISBN 978-0-312-69945-1. |
| June 13 | Alex Prud'homme | The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century. Scribner. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4165-3545-4. |
| June 14 | J. J. Abrams | Super 8 |
| June 15 | Trey Parker & Matt Stone | The Book of Mormon |
| June 20 | Ray Nagin | Nagin, Ray (2011). Katrina's Secrets: Storms after the Storm. The Author. ISBN 978-1-4609-5971-8. |
| June 21 | Cameron Diaz | Bad Teacher |
| June 22 | Mitchell Zuckoff | Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II. ISBN 978-0-06-198834-9. |
| June 23 | Bruce Headlam | Page One: Inside the New York Times |
| June 27 | Jennifer Aniston | Horrible Bosses |
| June 28 | Louis C.K. | Louie |
| June 29 | Tom Hanks | Larry Crowne |
| June 30 | Bill Kristol | The Weekly Standard |

### July

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| July 11 | Denis Leary | Rescue Me |
| July 12 | Kid Rock | Born Free |
| July 13 | Matthew Richardson | Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance. ISBN 978-0-691-15078-9. |
| July 14 | Leroy Petry | Medal of Honor recipient |
| July 18 | Daniel Radcliffe | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 |
| July 19 | Pervez Musharraf | Former President of Pakistan |
| July 20 | Steve Carell | Crazy, Stupid, Love. |
| July 21 | Scott Miller | The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. Random House. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4000-6752-7. |
| July 25 | Neil Patrick Harris | The Smurfs |
| July 26 | Juan Williams | Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-307-95201-1. |
| July 27 | Rachel Weisz | The Whistleblower |
| July 28 | Peter Tomsen | Tomsen, Peter (July 12, 2011). The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-763-8. |

### August

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| August 1 | Freida Pinto | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| August 2 | Jason Bateman | The Change-Up |
| August 3 | Austan Goolsbee | Chief Economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board |
| August 4 | Dick Durbin | United States Senator, D-Illinois |
| August 8 | Mark Adams | Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time. Dutton. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-525-95224-4. |
| August 9 | Jay Bahadur | Bahadur, Jay (March 11, 2024). The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-307-37906-1. |
| August 10 | John Coffee | Director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia University Law School |
| August 11 | Michael Wallis | Wallis, Michael (May 16, 2011). David Crockett: The Lion of the West. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06758-3. |
| August 15 | Ali Velshi | How to Speak Money: The Language and Knowledge You Need Now. John Wiley & Sons. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-118-11495-7. |
| August 16 | Matt Long | The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete. Rodale. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-60529-246-5. |
| August 17 | Michael Steele | Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee |
| August 18 | Anne Hathaway | One Day |

### September

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| September 6 | Buddy Roemer | Former Governor of Louisiana, 2012 presidential candidate |
| September 7 | Dr. Sanjay Gupta | Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Terror in the Dust |
| September 8 | Marion Cotillard | Contagion |
| September 12 | Admiral Michael Mullen | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| September 13 | Jim Lehrer | Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain. Random House. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4000-6917-0. |
| September 14 | Common | Common; Bradley, Adam (September 13, 2011). One Day It'll All Make Sense. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-2587-5. |
| September 15 | Caroline Kennedy | Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4013-2425-4. |
| September 20 | Ron Suskind | Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. Harper. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-06-142925-5. |
| September 21 | Mitch Daniels | Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans. Sentinel. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59523-080-5. |
| September 22 | Jennifer Granholm | A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-58648-997-7. |
| September 26 | Ron Paul | Member of the United States House of Representatives, 2012 presidential candidate |
| September 27 | Seth Rogen | 50/50 |
| September 28 | Bill O'Reilly | Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. Henry Holt and Co. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-8050-9307-0. |
| September 29 | Tony Bennett | Duets II |

### October

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| October 3 | Thomas Friedman | That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-374-28890-7. |
| October 4 | Michael Lewis | Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. W.W. Norton. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-393-08181-7. |
| October 5 | Hugh Jackman | Real Steel |
| October 6 | Jason Sudeikis | Saturday Night Live |
| October 17 | Ellen Schultz | Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59184-333-7. |
| October 18 | Calvin Trillin | Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4000-6982-8. |
| October 19 | Al Sharpton | PoliticsNation |
| October 20 | Richard Brookhiser | Brookhiser, Richard (September 27, 2011). James Madison. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01983-0. |
| October 24 | Kevin Clash | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey |
| October 25 | Walter Isaacson | Isaacson, Walter (October 24, 2011). Steve Jobs. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9. |
| October 26 | Lisa Randall | Randall, Lisa (September 20, 2011). Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-172372-8. |
| October 27 | Andrew Napolitano | It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom. Thomas Nelson. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-59555-350-8. |
| October 31 | Mindy Kaling | Kaling, Mindy (March 11, 2024). Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). Crown Archetype. ISBN 978-0-307-88626-2. |

### November

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| November 1 | Condoleezza Rice | Rice, Condoleezza (March 11, 2024). No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-58786-2. |
| November 2 | Tom Brokaw | Brokaw, Tom (March 11, 2024). The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America - Who We Are, Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go Now to Recapture the American Dream. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6458-8. |
| November 3 | Brad Paisley | Paisley, Brad; Wild, David (March 11, 2024). Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me. Howard Books. ISBN 978-1-4516-2552-3. |
| November 7 | Clint Eastwood | J. Edgar |
| November 8 | Bill Clinton | Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. Alfred A. Knopf. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-307-95975-1. |
| November 9 | Nancy Pelosi | Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives |
| November 10 | Adam Sandler | Jack & Jill |
| November 14 | Leymah Gbowee | Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. ISBN 978-0-9842951-5-9. |
| November 15 | Mark Kelly | Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. Scribner. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4516-6106-4. |
| November 16 | Diane Keaton | Then Again. ISBN 978-1-4000-6878-4. |
| November 17 | Martin Scorsese | Hugo |
| November 28 | Merrill Markoe | Cool, Calm & Contentious. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-345-51891-0. |
| November 29 | Betty White | Hot in Cleveland and Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo. ISBN 978-0-399-15754-7. |
| November 30 | Bono | ONE Campaign and (PRODUCT)$^{RED}$ |

### December

| Date | Guest | Promotion |
| December 1 | Bob Costas | Garner, Joe; Costas, Bob (March 11, 2024). 100 Yards of Glory: The Greatest Moments in NFL History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-54798-5. |
| December 5 | Ben Lowy | Lowy, Benjamin (March 11, 2024). Iraq - Perspectives. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5166-5. |
| December 6 | Jonah Hill | The Sitter |
| December 7 | Ralph Fiennes | Coriolanus |
| December 8 | Ed Gillespie | Former chair of the Republican National Committee |
| December 12 | Anne Burrell | Burrell, Anne; Lenzer, Suzanne (March 11, 2024). Cook Like a Rock Star: 125 Recipes, Lessons, and Culinary Secrets. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. ISBN 978-0-307-88675-0. |
| December 13 | Lawrence Lessig | Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It. Twelve. March 11, 2024. ISBN 978-0-446-57643-7. |
| December 14 | Melody Barnes | Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council |
| December 15 | Matt Damon | We Bought a Zoo |