Director
Jim Hoskinson
DIRECTOR
Paul B. Cummings
Stars (in credits order)
Stephen Colbert
Self - Host
Jay Katsir
Jay the Intern
Jon Stewart
Self
Paul Dinello
Tad
Trevor Potter
Andrew Sullivan
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tim Meadows
P.K. Winsome
Mike Huckabee
James Martin
Emily Bazelon
Eric Frandsen
Hans Beinholt
Tom Brokaw
Self - Guest
Peter Gwinn
Jimmy
Ken Burns
Jim Cramer
Arianna Huffington
Henry Kissinger
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Jonathan Alter
Paul Krugman
Chris Matthews
Dan Savage
David Leonhardt
Michael Stipe
Jeffrey Toobin
Peter Grosz
Gay Husband
Jeff Goldblum
John Lithgow
Christiane Amanpour
Amy Sedaris
Michael Pollan
Joe Quesada
Malcolm Gladwell
Elvis Costello
Eliot Spitzer
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ralph Archbold
Benjamin Franklin
Meg DeFrancesco
Meg the Intern
Sam Waterston
Charlie Rose
Cliff Sloan
Frank Rich
Jack White
Michael Lewis
Morgan Spurlock
Cory Booker
Gloria Steinem
James Carville
David Gergen
Ron Paul
David Frum
Matt Taibbi
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Toby Keith
Steven Pinker
James Franco
Katie Couric
Bob Costas
Brian Greene
J.J. Abrams
Michael Moore
Bill Clinton
Tom Hanks
Andy Cohen
Jeff Tweedy
Self - Musical Guest
Jessica Ecklund
Miss Colbert
Mandy Patinkin
Audra McDonald
Bryan Cranston
Cyndi Lauper
Scott Thompson
Buddy Cole
Ric Ocasek
Simon de Pury
Anthony Romero
Richard Brookhiser
Mort Zuckerman
Reza Aslan
David Brooks
Jeff Greenfield
Al Sharpton
David Gregory
Alexi Lalas
George Stephanopoulos
Madeleine Albright
Nancy Pelosi
Andrew Young
Rachel Maddow
Edward Rendell
Robin Wright
Niall Ferguson
Laurie Garrett
Kevin Spacey
Jimmy Fallon
Anderson Cooper
Neal Katyal
Robert Wexler
Thomas Friedman
Biz Stone
Steve Martin
Cornel West
Mark Moffett
Lou Dobbs
Jim Webb
Paul Begala
Kayla Simpkins
George Saunders
Tony Snow
Bill O'Reilly
Barack Obama
Maria Shriver
Bernie Sanders
Nate Silver
Robert Reich
Jorge Ramos
John Legend
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Brent Glass
Susan Jacoby
Richard Engel
David Byrne
Bill McKibben
Jeff Bridges
Terry Gross
Matt Damon
Vince Gilligan
Grandmaster Flash
Patrick Stewart
Peter Beinart
Open Zion, The Daily Beast
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Jon Meacham
Bart D. Ehrman
Richard Haass
Brian Cox
Michael Sandel
Harvard University
Hugo Vickers
Janny Scott
Author, 'A Singular Woman'
John Hall
Norman Ornstein
Bradley Whitford
Barney Frank
Fareed Zakaria
Tim Robbins
Stone Phillips
Randy Newman
Barry Manilow
Caitlin Flanagan
Steven Johnson
Julian Bond
Keith Olbermann
Barbara Boxer
Paul Rieckhoff
Byron Dorgan
Joe Scarborough
Robert Greenwald
Tyson Slocum
Surya Das
Michael Shermer
Evan Osnos
Bob Lutz
Fmr. Vice Chairman, General Motors
Yo-Yo Ma
Glenn Eichler
Glenn
David Carr
Grover Norquist
Geoffrey Canada
David Simon
Paul Simon
Bob Graham
Khaled Hosseini
Bob Barr
Paul McCartney
The Flaming Lips
Themselves
Robert Ballard
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
Jonah Lehrer
Jonathan Safran Foer
Eugene Jarecki
Austan Goolsbee
Self - Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors
Lawrence Wright
Self - Author, 'The Looming Tower'
Atul Gawande
A.C. Grayling
Self - Author, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
Amanda Krenz
Self - ABC5 WOI-DT Des Moines News Anchor
Frank Luntz
James Cameron
Julie Andrews
Self - Grimm Colberty Tales
William Shatner
Sting
Mark Cuban
Jeff Daniels
George Lucas
Ron Reagan
Dan Rather
Christine Todd Whitman
David Sirota
Rick Reilly
Jane Fonda
Markos Moulitsas
Bay Buchanan
Paulina Porizkova
Roland Fryer
Michio Kaku
Andres Serrano
Rachel Pierce
Buddy Roemer
Neil Young
Daniel Ellsberg
Rich Dahm
Ben Cohen
Bing West
Caroline Kennedy
John Walters
Self - ABC5 WOI-DT Des Moines Sports Director
Jerry Greenfield
Brad Edwards
Self - ABC5 WOI-DT Des Moines Chief Meteorologist
Maureen Dowd
Richard Clarke
Richard Preston
Peter Frampton
John Sexton
Rick Nielsen
Peter Singer
Conan O'Brien
Tony Campolo
Kenneth Miller
Carl Bernstein
Al Franken
Viggo Mortensen
Willie Nelson
Tony Bennett
Walter Isaacson
John Mellencamp
Chuck Schumer
Judy Woodruff
Jimmy Wales
Charlie LeDuff
Jared Diamond
Robert Pinsky
John Grisham
Naomi Wolf
James Fallows
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Richard Branson
Conn Iggulden
Mark Frauenfelder
Michael F. Jacobson
Tom Blanton
Walter Kirn
Simon Schama
Howard Dean
Ethan Nadelmann
Maria Bartiromo
Salman Rushdie
Nathan Gunn
Shashi Tharoor
Tommy Chong
Brian Williams
Jim Lovell
Michael Bloomberg
Jann Wenner
Spencer Wells
Igor Dyachenko
Jerry Miller
J. Craig Venter
Hillary Clinton
David Rudman
Cookie Monster
Pat Buchanan
George F. Will
Tom Purcell
Guy in audience
Dan Esty
Allan Sloan
Junot Diaz
Neil Shubin
Noah Feldman
Michelle Obama
Barbara Walters
Nas
James Taylor
Buzz Aldrin
Claire McCaskill
Jonathan Zittrain
Jeffrey Goldberg
Bob Inglis
Nicholas Carr
Justin Purnell
Justin
Julia Sweig
Steve Moore
Kevin Costner
Sean Clements
Maverick Bully
Carl Hiaasen
Tad Devine
Joe Salmonese
John McCain
Stephen King
Woody Harrelson
Ira Glass
Al Gore
Raymond Odierno
Luke Guldan
Body Double
Shepard Fairey
Kumail Nanjiani
Homer
Harold Evans
Morgan Freeman
John Waters
Elizabeth Warren
Steve Carell
Garry Trudeau
Eugene Robinson
David Finkel
Garry Wills
Akhil Amar
Claire Danes
Aaron Sorkin
Joan Rivers
Jake Tapper
Mavis Staples
Sean Carroll
Kevin Kline
Eugene Mirman
Bing Bongavax
Stephen Sondheim
Logan Kulick
Cub Scout
Mike D'Antoni
Elijah Wood
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Black Keys
Patrick J. Carney
Dan Auerbach
Samuel L. Jackson
Ad Narrator
Chrystia Freeland
Melinda Gates
Jon Huntsman
Carol Browner
Talib Kweli
Peter Jackson
Alan Alda
Susan Lucci
Errol Morris
St. Vincent
Gregg Allman
John Lewis
Bill Moyers
Steve Coll
Ian McKellen
Maurice Sendak
Simone Campbell
Michael Barisone
Reihan Salam
Caroll Spinney
Big Bird
Billie Jean King
Mark Mazzetti
Hugh Laurie
Alan Cumming
Ashton Kutcher
Benjamin Gibbard
Benh Zeitlin
Arnold Y. Kim
Hyundai Executive
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Themselves - Musical Guest
Daniel Lieberman
Andrew Bacevich
Mark Pocan
Carol Burnett
Jon Batiste
David Remnick
Stay Human
Bill de Blasio
Monica Crowley
Major Owens
Jack Kingston
Mark Udall
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Bruce Feiler
Jim Moran
Martin Short
Frank Vincent
Maz Jobrani
Tony Hawk
Connie Chung
Ken Jennings
Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris
Jesse Jackson
Adam Schiff
Shere Hite
Mark Bowden
Damian Kulash
Helen Thomas
Mark Halperin
Barry Scheck
William Donohue
Self - President, Catholic League
Bob Schieffer
William Kristol
Ron Suskind
Steve Squyres
Michael Smerconish
Tim Flannery
James Woolsey
Jerrold Nadler
Michael Brown
David Kuo
Dean Kamen
Lee Terry
Linda Sánchez
George Packer
Judith Martin
Andy Stern
Ricky Faust
Kevin Phillips
Gustavo Arellano
Will Power
William C. Rhoden
András Simonyi
Stuart J. Beck
Jan Schneider
Lynn Woolsey
Phil Gingrey
Lee Silver
Eliot Engel
David Nelson Jones
Bill Pascrell
Chad Walldorf
Steve Pelkey
Dave Marash
Earl Blumenauer
Geoffrey Nunberg
Ned Lamont
Emily Yoffe
James Walter Gilchrist Jr.
Bonnie R.
Melissa Miller
Carol Gay
Alexandra Robbins
Diana DeGette
Chaka Fattah
Daniel Golden
Steve Rothman
Harvey Mansfield
Rick Larsen
Lynn Westmoreland
Albert Wynn
Ted Daeschler
Linda Hirshman
Brad Sherman
Darlene Hooley
Rich Sexton
Howell Raines
Jeff Munson
Michael Phelps
Sherman Alexie
Wilco
Steve Forbes
John McWhorter
Michael Farris
Charlie Cook
Phil Bronstein
Lara Logan
Meghan McCain
Philippe Petit
TV on the Radio
Queen Noor
John Podesta
Jim Lehrer
Frank Bruni
Alan Khazei
Elizabeth Alexander
Jabari Asim
Werner Herzog
Self - 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'
Ice-T
Jamie Hyneman
Sugar Ray Leonard
Self - Author, 'The Big Fight'
Alexandra Pelosi
Don Lemon
Lupe Fiasco
Self - Guest and Musical Guest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Self - Co-Author, 'Public Enemies'
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Contributing Writer, Salon
Alison Klayman
Self - Filmmaker, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Rex Ryan
Self - New York Jets Head Coach
Anthony Weiner
Justin Vernon
Tony Hsieh
Self - CEO: Zappos.com
Matthew John Dowd
Self - Political Analyst, ABC
Eric Foner
Self - Author, 'The Fiery Trial'
Sal Khan
Self - Khan Academy
Andrew Chaikin
Self - Space Historian
Jose Antonio Vargas
Susan Rice
Self - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Bill James
Self - Author, 'Popular Crime'
David Eagleman
Self - Neuroscientist
Michael Scheuer
Self - Author: 'Osama Bin Laden'
Tom Ridge
Self - Former Director, Dept. Homeland Security
Peter Edelman
Self - Georgetown Law School
Roy Den Hollander
Self - Anti-Feminist Lawyer
Sean Kelly
Self - Harvard University
Randi Weingarten
Russ Feingold
Self - ProgressivesUnited.org
Robert K. Wittman
Self - Author, 'Priceless'
Tim Pawlenty
Self - Former Governor of Minnesota
Sean Parnell
Self - Center for Competitive Politics
Dale Bryk
Self - Natural Resources Defense Council
Amy Kremer
Self - Chairwoman, Tea Party Express
Naftali Bendavid
Self - The Wall Street Journal
Leslie Dach
Self - Walmart
Kyle Petersen
Self - Unicyclist
Jeffrey Leonard
Self - Washington Monthly
Glenn Saxe
Self - Child Psychiatrist
Jane McGonigal
Self - Author, Reality Is Broken
Chris Hughes
Mark Burdett
Self - Independent Journalist
Joshua Foer
Self - Author, 'Moonwalking with Einstein'
Nassir Ghaemi
Self - Author, 'A First-Rate Madness'
Ronald DePinho
Stephen Prothero
Self - Author, 'God Is Not One'
John Garamendi
Self - Better Know a District
Fen Montaigne
Self - Author, 'Fraser's Penguins'
Björk
Musical Guest
Steve Whitmire
Kermit the Frog
Bonnie Raitt
Andrew Bird
Ann Patchett
Dave Bickler
Dexter Filkins
Author, The Forever War
Don McLeroy
Film, The Revisionaries
Dave 'Mudcat' Saunders
Self - Democratic Political Strategist
Don Fleming
Director, Alan Lomax Institute
Robert Kagan
Author, The World America Made
Charles Alan Murray
Author, Coming Apart
Gary Johnson
Former Governor of New Mexico
Ameena Matthews
CeaseFire Violence Interrupter
William J. Broad
Jim Gilchrist
Self - Minuteman Project
Dawn Quarles
Richard Hersh
Co-Author, We're Losing Our Mings
David Page
Director, Whitehead Institute
Bryan Escobedo
Christopher Steiner
Self - Author, 'Automate This'
Denise Hasty
Self - Homeowner
John P. Kilduff
Self - Founding Partner, Again Capital
Jeremy Bird
Battlegroundtexas.com
Michael Sheen
BD Wong
Bill Cosby
Lesley Stahl
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Ted Danson
Lorraine Bracco
Maria Thayer
Jenny
Penn Jillette
Bill Simmons
Sebastian Junger
Alan Dershowitz
Ralph Nader
Gideon Yago
Janna Levin
Nina Totenberg
Michael Eric Dyson
Lowell Bergman
Amy Goodman
Christopher Noxon
Douglas Brinkley
Brian Schweitzer
Xavier Becerra
Norah Vincent
Alan Manevitz
John Kasich
Bruce Bartlett
Cassie Ramoska
Daniel Senor
Ramesh Ponnuru
Jerry Sanders
Eli Pariser
Paul Hackett
Paul Aronsohn
William Bastone
Wynton Marsalis
Scott McClellan
Nicholas Wade
Self - Investigative Science Writer
Denis Dutton
Rich Lowry
Gary Sinise
Adam Savage
David Letterman
Florence Welch
Self - Florence + The Machine
Skylar Grey
David McCullough
Self - Author, 'The Greater Journey'
Bon Iver
Raymond Kurzweil
Self - Futurist
Al Hunt
Self - Executive Washington Editor, Bloomberg News
Christopher B. Block
Self - Lawyer
Timothy Garton Ash
Self - Author, 'Facts Are Subversive'
Francis Fukuyama
Self - Author, 'The Origins of Political Order'
Sheila Krumholz
Self - Center for Responsive Politics
Elliot Ackerman
Self - AmericansElect.org
Nathan Myhrvold
Self - Former Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft
Eric Greitens
Self - Navy SEAL and Author
James B. Stewart
Self - Author, 'Tangled Webs'
David Tang
Self - Founder, ICorrect.com
David Albright
Edward M. Rappaport
Self - Retired New York Supreme Court Justice
Bre Pettis
Self - MakerBot Industries
Chris Ferguson
Sam Schwartz
Self - The Enemy Within
Douglas W. Stern
Self - Mayor, Rancho Palod Verdes
The Black Belles
Dan Sinker
Self - @MayorEmanuel
Jody Williams
Self - Guest: Nobel Peace Laureate
Wade Graham
Self - Author, 'American Eden'
Jon Erpenbach
Brooke Gladstone
Self - Co-Host of 'On the Media'
John Bradshaw
Self - Author, 'Dog Sense'
Mavis Burdett
Self - Mark's Mother
Mark Ruffalo
Willem Dafoe
Emmylou Harris
Plácido Domingo
Magnus Carlsen
Self - Norwegian Chess Grand Master
Nikki Haley
Governor of South Carolina (R)
Mark McKinnon
John Anthony
Self - Neighbor
Ross Eisenbrey
Economic Policy Institute
Katherine Boo
Author, Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Howard Simon
Janet Riley
Self - American Meat Institute
Jack McBrayer
Kevin
Robert Baer
Dhani Jones
Hugh Hewitt
Ariel Levy
Will Koch
Peter Agre
Dave Ahdoot
Muslim guy 2010
Florence and the Machine
James Murphy
The Cars
Piers Gibbon
Self - 'Eating with Cannibals'
Tim Shriver
The Steep Canyon Rangers
Themselves - Musical Guests
Patrick Rodgers
Self - Difference Maker
John Prendergast
Self - Co-Founder, Enough Project
Doug Hurley
Stephanie Coontz
Self - Author, 'A Strange Stirring'
Benjamin Aranda
Self - Artist
Larry Kobilinsky
Self - Forensic Scientist
Rich Glorioso
Sarah Vowell
Tia Dionne Hodge
ACTOR
LCD Soundsystem
Ayman Mohyeldin
Self - Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
Rex Walheim
Missy Cummings
Self - Humans and Automation Lab, MIT
Amy Farrell
Self - Author, 'Fat Shame'
Tavis Smiley
Co-Author, The Rich and the Rest of Us
Peter Diaczuck
Self - Ballistics Expert
Kevin Mitnick
Self - Author, 'Ghost in the Wires'
Wil Selby
Sandra Magnus
Steve Wozniak
JoAnn Heckman
Self - Mr. Manatee owner
Roger Rubin
Self - Graphologist
Anne Rice
Author, The Wolf Gift
Dermot Mulroney
Lisa Loeb
Rick Springfield
Peggy Noonan
Greg Behrendt
Harry Smith
Bob Kerrey
Uzimann
Cokie Roberts
Catherine Crier
Christopher Adeler
Self Gambler
Mary Roach
Damon Badgett
John Mica
Craig Crawford
Steven Van Zandt
Richard Linklater
Warren Beatty
Harry Shearer
Nora Ephron
Scott Adsit
Admiral Allendorfer
Nancy Grace
Allison Silverman
Juliax
Frank McCourt
Annie Duke
Morley Safer
John Stossel
Steve Kroft
Gary Hart
Christopher Buckley
Mike Lupica
Chris Funk
Jeffrey Sachs
Anthony DeCurtis
Robin Givhan
Robert Schneider
Genia Nunez
Sexy Chica model
Saida Yunes
Sexy Chica
Jake Grate
Burnout
Robert Person
First High Five
Jeff Swartz
Brett O'Donnell
Michael Novacek
Susan Sarandon
Sean Penn
Edward Asner
Candice Bergen
Ed Begley Jr.
Judd Apatow
Dinesh D'Souza
Tom Hayden
Michael Wallis
Josh Wolf
Mike Wallace
Lance Armstrong
Garrison Keillor
Tom Wolfe
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Russell Simmons
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Michael Steele
Garry Kasparov
Vincent Bugliosi
John Kerry
David France
Jeannette Walls
Wesley Clark
Bill Bradley
Tina Brown
Joe Klein
Ed Viesturs
Andrew Weil
Lawrence Wilkerson
Dennis Kucinich
Tom DeLay
Mike Gravel
Rich Korson
Dante Pagano
Andrew Keen
John Amaechi
Elaine Pagels
Samantha Scharff
Tek's girlfriend
David Oliver Cohen
Blue Boy
John Mearsheimer
Janice Schakowsky
Bjørn Lomborg
Frank Sulloway
Donna Shalala
Chris Hedges
Thomas Ricks
Daniel Gilbert
Craig Newmark
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Michael Behe
Alex Kuczynski
Vali Nasr
Richard Florida
David M. Walker
Mary Beth Garrigan
Charles Kaiser
Stephen Benjamin
Michael Gershon
Charlie Savage
David Schwartz
Paul Glastris
Marybeth Garrigan
Wendy Kopp
Michael Beschloss
Joel Klein
Andrew Feldmar
Jessica Valenti
Thomas F. Schaller
Bob Drogin
Marcel Feldmar
Papal Encounter
David Kamp
Jerald Vizzone
Randy Kearse
Andrew Rosenthal
Adam Smith
Self - House Armed Services Committee
Colin Beaven
Raul Grijalva
Stephen Jr.
Mara Vanderslice
Will Schwalbe
William Langewiesche
Sheryl WuDunn
Michael D. Gershon
Mark Moffit
Daniel B. Smith
Richard Berman
Zev Chafets
Gina Kolata
Robert Shrum
Richard Land
Leon Botstein
Barry Lando
Chris Jordan
Katie Bruggeman
Bob Deans
Ian Bogost
Aaron Houston
Massie Ritsch
Nathan Sawaya
Will Smith
Kevin Bacon
Laura Dern
Charlie Kaufman
Leonard Nimoy
Oliver Stone
Adam Pally
Alison Becker
Wife
Jesse Ventura
Mehmet Oz
Marjane Satrapi
Geraldo Rivera
David Crosby
Philip Zimbardo
Graham Nash
Alex Lifeson
Jackson Browne
R.E.M.
Geddy Lee
Leslie Feist
Ben Epstein
Bob Woodward
Mitch Albom
Stephen Stills
Jillian Nelson
Preacher's Daughter
Anne Lamott
Van Jones
The Roots
Neil Peart
Naomi Klein
Bob Dole
Rush
John Edwards
Andrew Napolitano
Laura Schlessinger
Dee Dee Myers
Peter Buck
George McGovern
Muhammad Yunus
Alex Ross
Jeb Corliss
Mike Mills
Rob Lathan
Husband
Bethany McLean
Elizabeth Edwards
Clint Browning
Bad Boy
Michael Salzhauer
Barry Julien
Starbucks Guy #1
Laura Krafft
Ingrid Newkirk
Opus Moreschi
Audience Member
Michael Brumm
Grey Rodriguez
Frans de Waal
Samantha Power
Lisa Randall
Susan Eisenhower
Garrett Reisman
The Apples in Stereo
Margaret Spellings
Thomas Frank
Michael Nutter
Jennifer Jo Hooper
Paul Goldberger
Jason Baker
Tony Perkins
Self - President, Family Research Council
Jared Cohen
Rick Warren
Joseph Stiglitz
Aubrey de Grey
Jane Mayer
Michael Reynolds
Tim Harford
Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders
Jeff Gore
James Howard Kunstler
Chris Beam
John Feinstein
Patrick Murphy
Peter Hopkins
Gary Rosen
Laurie Goodstein
Marc Pachter
Dickson Despommier
Hasan Elahi
Barbara Ehrenreich
Kathleen Parker
Winona LaDuke
Stephen Greenblatt
Jason Riley
Deborah Tannen
Dick Meyer
Shai Agassi
Uma Mysorekar
David Paterson
Debra Dickerson
Sudhir Venkatesh
Andrei Cherny
David Gracer
Adam Brickley
Eric Alterman
Richard Thompson Ford
Joey Cheek
George Johnson
Charles Nesson
Lucas Conley
Clay Shirky
David Levy
Angelo Falcon
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Kevin Johnson
Jacob Weisberg
Dave Levin
Amanda Schweitzer
Cheerleader
Brendan I. Koerner
Tom Wright
James Bond
Marie Wood
Peter J. Gomes
Ron Howard
Benicio Del Toro
Christine Ebersole
Kris Kristofferson
John Slattery
Snoop Dogg
Neil Gaiman
Alicia Keys
Larry King
Green Day
George Bush
Cat Stevens
Johnathan Fernandez
Mayo Hipster
David Grann
Lisa Hannigan
Adam Gopnik
Robin Zander
John Fetterman
Eric Schlosser
David Javerbaum
John King
Sylvia Earle
Jason Chaffetz
Alan Colmes
The Decemberists
Mike Krzyzewski
Seth Shostak
Jerry Mitchell
Amir Darvish
Howard Fineman
Joe Arpaio
Ed Young
Lawrence Lessig
Susie Orbach
Mitchell Joachim
Simon Johnson
Natalie Kuhn
Jonathan Chait
Mark Bittman
Dambisa Moyo
Derrick Pitts
Jackie Speier
Matthew Crawford
Jack Jacobs
Helen Fisher
Kevin Mattson
Orly Taitz
Paul Muldoon
Matt Miller
Daniel Gross
William H. Gerstenmaier
Self - Guest (as William Gerstenmaier)
David Plotz
Tamara Draut
Stephen Johnson
Robin Balcom
Self - Squad Leader, 463rd Military Police Co.
Dag Söderberg
Carl Wilson
Self - Author, Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
Tareq Salha
Self - Arabic Interpreter, 111th Military Intelligence Brigade
Chellie Pingree
Dan Zaccagnino
Jay Keasling
James Surowiecki
Jonathan Cohn
John McCardell
Katherine Reutter
Jim Fouratt
David Kilcullen
Chris Mooney
Juan Cole
Elizabeth Bintliff
Guillermo del Toro
Michael J. Fox
Don Cheadle
Quincy Jones
Elon Musk
Martha Stewart
David Mamet
Michael Bublé
Aimee Mullins
Davis Guggenheim
Don Novello
Father Guido Sarducci
Shaun White
Julie Taymor
Mark Mothersbaugh
Lawrence O'Donnell
Philip Glass
Patti Smith
Damon Albarn
CeeLo Green
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Laura Ingraham
Savion Glover
Laird Hamilton
Gorillaz
Themselves - Guest
Jimmy Cliff
Michael Hastings
Devo
John Kiriakou
Jamie Hewlett
Mary Matalin
George Kareman
Gay Grim
Leslie Kean
Self - Interviewee
Phil Nee
Xin Zhou
Vampire Weekend
Allan Houston
William Wegman
Stephen Malkmus
Gerald Casale
Ezra Klein
Julie Nixon
David Eisenhower
Self Guest
Chris Dodd
James Rubin
Wes Moore
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Steve Rattner
Kate Riley
Cheerleader Girlfriend
David Stern
David Boies
Alan Bean
Stewart Brand
Mike Fincke
Patrick Michael Strange
Immigrant Farm Worker
Ross Douthat
Al Ghanekar
Hanna Rosin
David Shields
Rebecca Skloot
Dylan Ratigan
David Stockman
Frank Stella
Stephen Detherage
Arresting Officer
Tom Vilsack
Julián Castro
Erick Erickson
Hephzibah Anderson
Self - Author of Chastened
Arturo Rodríguez
Chuck Close
Judith Shulevitz
Saul Griffith
Lisa Birnbach
Steven W. Lindsey
Andrea Simmons
Self - Contestant
Manny Howard
Linda Douglass
Jon Mooallem
Carl Safina
Seth Wescott
Riley Crane
Heidi Cullen
Omar Wasow
Salvatore Giunta
Raj Patel
Self - Author, 'The Value of Nothing'
Michael Specter
Sonia DeChausse
Mike Posner
Jackie Hilly
William Adair
Brent Walsh
Jeff Wootton
Self - Gorillaz
Arthur T. Benjamin
Greg Brittenham
Ilya Shapiro
Frederic DeChausse
Maynard Manzano
James Fouts
Gregg Easterbrook
Lori Roman
Garret Keizer
David Silverman
Charles Moore
Cindy Cohn
Andrew Hacker
Self - Co-Author 'Higher Education'
Antoine Shepard
Tim Westergren
Daniel Craig
Donald Trump
Geoffrey Rush
Harry Connick Jr.
Tunde Adebimpe
Yasiin Bey
Seth Meyers
Chris Martin
Clare Foley
The Enemy Within Daughter
Harry Belafonte
Radiohead
Ezra Koenig
Self - Vampire Weekend
Chris Thile
Thom Yorke
Diane Sawyer
David Copperfield
Brian Eno
Coldplay
Jeff Gum
Susan Orlean
Anthony Fauci
Declan Foley
The Enemy Within Baby
Derrel W. Sims
Self - The Alien Hunter
Amy Chua
Self - Author, 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother'
Jimmie Johnson
Ed O'Brien
Aidan Foley
The Enemy Within Son
Ali Soufan
Danny Goldberg
Jack Abramoff
Kyp Malone
Cristala Carter
Oprah
Jeffrey Kluger
Susan Saladoff
Elliot Easton
Michael Waldman
Self - Author, 'My Fellow Americans'
Nathan Wolfe
Dick Harpootlian
Greg Hawkes
Jeremy Ben-Ami
Stuart Duncan
Taylor Branch
Paul Offit
Self - Author, 'Deadly Choices'
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jerome Groopman
Daryl Bem
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