TV Show Cast (342)

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  Stephen Colbert

  Self - Host (1447 Episodes)

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  Jon Stewart

  Self (8 Episodes)

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  Chris Matthews

  (5 Episodes)

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  Andrew Sullivan

  Self (4 Episodes)

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  Jeff Goldblum

  (4 Episodes)

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  Toby Keith

  Self (4 Episodes)

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  Jack White

  Self (4 Episodes)

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  Lou Dobbs

  Self (3 Episodes), Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Arianna Huffington

  Self (3 Episodes), Self - Guest - The Huffington Post (1 Episode)

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  Ken Burns

  Self (4 Episodes)

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  Mike Huckabee

  (4 Episodes)

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  David Cross

  Russ Lieber (voice) (uncredited) (3 Episodes), Self (1 Episode)

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  George Stephanopoulos

  Self (3 Episodes)

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  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Self (3 Episodes)

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  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  (3 Episodes)

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  Neil Young

  (2 Episodes), Himself (1 Episode)

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  Christiane Amanpour

  (3 Episodes)

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  Elvis Costello

  Self (3 Episodes)

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  John Legend

  Self (3 Episodes)

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  Reza Aslan

  (3 Episodes)

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  Tim Meadows

  (3 Episodes)

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  Eric Drysdale

  Bobby (uncredited) (3 Episodes)

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  Barney Frank

  Self (2 Episodes), Self (archive footage from The Colbert Report 10/27/2005) (1 Episode)

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  George Wendt

  Santa (2 Episodes)

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  Al Franken

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Nas

  (2 Episodes)

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  Kevin Bacon

  (2 Episodes)

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  J.J. Abrams

  (2 Episodes)

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  Barbara Boxer

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Mark Cuban

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Amy Goodman

  (2 Episodes)

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  Steve Martin

  (2 Episodes)

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  Peter Beinart

  (2 Episodes)

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  Daniel Ellsberg

  (2 Episodes)

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  Leslie Feist

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Deepak Chopra

  (2 Episodes)

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  Michael Moore

  (2 Episodes)

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  Malcolm Gladwell

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Cornel West

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Stone Phillips

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Jeff Daniels

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Paul Dinello

  Tad (2 Episodes)

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  Tim Robbins

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Al Gore

  (2 Episodes)

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  Jim Lovell

  (2 Episodes)

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  Stephen Sondheim

  (2 Episodes)

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  Anderson Cooper

  Self (1 Episode), Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Al Sharpton

  Self (archive footage from Rosa Parks funeral) (1 Episode), Self (1 Episode)

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  Scott McClellan

  (1 Episode), Self (archive footage from press briefing 11/08/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Charlize Theron

  Self (archive footage from North Country) (1 Episode), (1 Episode)

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  David Copperfield

  (1 Episode), Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  David Brooks

  (2 Episodes)

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  Gloria Steinem

  (2 Episodes)

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  Helen Thomas

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Keith Olbermann

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Michael Stipe

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Henry Kissinger

  (2 Episodes)

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  Eliot Spitzer

  Self (2 Episodes)

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  Kevin Spacey

  (2 Episodes)

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  Saddam Hussein

  Self (archive footage) (2 Episodes)

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  Tom Cruise

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode), Maverick (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Harry Reid

  Self (archive footage) (2 Episodes)

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  Chris Dodd

  Self (1 Episode), Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Rick Springfield

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Peggy Noonan

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Catherine Crier

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Maureen Dowd

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Barry Manilow

  (1 Episode)

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  Douglas Brinkley

  (1 Episode)

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  Bob Costas

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Cokie Roberts

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Annie Duke

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Fareed Zakaria

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Greg Behrendt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Richard Preston Jr.

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Randy Newman

  (1 Episode)

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  Harry Smith

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Christopher Noxon

  (1 Episode)

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  Jane Fonda

  Self - Guest (1 Episode)

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  Mike Lupica

  (1 Episode)

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  John Kasich

  (1 Episode)

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  Bob Kerrey

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Dermot Mulroney

  Self - Guest (1 Episode)

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  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Gideon Yago

  (1 Episode)

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  Lisa Loeb

  Self (1 Episode)

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  David Gergen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Dave Marash

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jim Lehrer

  (1 Episode)

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  William Kristol

  (1 Episode)

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  Ted Danson

  (1 Episode)

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  Emily Yoffe

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Tony Hawk

  (1 Episode)

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  Monica Crowley

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Robin Givhan

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Ron Suskind

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sam Waterston

  (1 Episode)

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  Rachel Maddow

  (1 Episode)

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  Eugene Jarecki

  (1 Episode)

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  Charlie Rose

  (1 Episode)

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  Salman Khan

  (1 Episode)

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  Gary Sinise

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Robin Wright

  (1 Episode)

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  Drew Barrymore

  (1 Episode)

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  Diane Keaton

  (1 Episode)

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  Bob Schieffer

  (1 Episode)

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  Garry Kasparov

  (1 Episode)

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  Lynn Swann

  (1 Episode)

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  Richard Dawkins

  (1 Episode)

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  Amy Sedaris

  (1 Episode)

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  Ang Lee

  (1 Episode)

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  John Mellencamp

  (1 Episode)

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  Erik Weiner

  (1 Episode)

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  Carole King

  (1 Episode)

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  Harry Shearer

  (1 Episode)

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  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Garry Trudeau

  (1 Episode)

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  Donna Shalala

  (1 Episode)

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  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  (1 Episode)

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  Quincy Jones

  (1 Episode)

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  Jimmie Johnson

  (1 Episode)

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  Martin Short

  (1 Episode)

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  Lorraine Bracco

  (1 Episode)

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  Alison Becker

  (1 Episode)

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  Hillary Clinton

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bill Clinton

  (1 Episode)

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  Ric Ocasek

  (1 Episode)

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  William Rieflin

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jim Webb

  (1 Episode)

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  James Taylor

  (1 Episode)

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  Tony Danza

  (1 Episode)

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  Steve Carell

  (1 Episode)

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  Frank Luntz

  (1 Episode)

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  Mark Ruffalo

  (1 Episode)

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  James Cameron

  (1 Episode)

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  Nina Totenberg

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Donald Faison

  (1 Episode)

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  Frank McCourt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Mike Wallace

  (1 Episode)

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  Ira Glass

  (1 Episode)

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  Julie Taymor

  (1 Episode)

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  Lupe Fiasco

  (1 Episode)

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  Geoffrey Rush

  (1 Episode)

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  Daniel Craig

  (1 Episode)

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  Dinesh D'Souza

  (1 Episode)

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  Sherman Alexie

  (1 Episode)

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  Kathryn Bigelow

  (1 Episode)

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  Sugar Ray Leonard

  (1 Episode)

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  Kevin Mitnick

  (1 Episode)

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  William Shatner

  (1 Episode)

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  Audra McDonald

  (1 Episode)

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  Caroline Kennedy

  (1 Episode)

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  James Stewart

  (1 Episode)

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  David McCullough

  (1 Episode)

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  Austan Goolsbee

  (1 Episode)

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  Eric McCormack

  (1 Episode)

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  Ethan Nadelmann

  (1 Episode)

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  Wesley Clark

  (1 Episode)

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  Elijah Wood

  (1 Episode)

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  James Franco

  (1 Episode)

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  Björk

  Self - Musical Guest (1 Episode)

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  John Lithgow

  (1 Episode)

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  Ron Howard

  (1 Episode)

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  Tom Vilsack

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Julie Andrews

  Self - Grimm Colberty Tales (1 Episode)

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  John Heilemann

  (1 Episode)

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  Charles Murray

  (1 Episode)

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  Bonnie Raitt

  (1 Episode)

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  Yo-Yo Ma

  (1 Episode)

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  Alan Alda

  (1 Episode)

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  Mike Tyson

  (1 Episode)

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  Piers Gibbon

  (1 Episode)

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  Buzz Aldrin

  (1 Episode)

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  Olivia Wilde

  (1 Episode)

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  Peter Frampton

  (1 Episode)

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  Howard Dean

  (1 Episode)

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  Neil Gaiman

  (1 Episode)

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  Larry King

  (1 Episode)

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  Patti Smith

  (1 Episode)

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  Anthony Bourdain

  (1 Episode)

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  Jeff Bridges

  (1 Episode)

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  Michelle Obama

  Self (1 Episode)

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  David Frum

  (1 Episode)

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  Martin Sheen

  (1 Episode)

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  Aaron Sorkin

  (1 Episode)

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  Jimmy Fallon

  (1 Episode)

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  Morgan Spurlock

  (1 Episode)

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  David Letterman

  (1 Episode)

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  Tavis Smiley

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Frank Deford

  (1 Episode)

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  Bill O'Reilly

  (1 Episode)

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  George Saunders

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jesse Ventura

  (1 Episode)

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  Maria Shriver

  (1 Episode)

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  Kris Kristofferson

  (1 Episode)

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  Carl Wilson

  Self - Guest (1 Episode)

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  John McCain

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Nancy Pelosi

  (1 Episode)

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  Anne Rice

  (1 Episode)

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  Regina Spektor

  (1 Episode)

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  Debra Dickerson

  (1 Episode)

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  Meryl Streep

  (1 Episode)

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  Werner Herzog

  (1 Episode)

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  Brian Cox

  (1 Episode)

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  Jeri Kehn Thompson

  (1 Episode)

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  John Grisham

  (1 Episode)

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  Tony Snow

  (1 Episode)

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  Grover Norquist

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Nora Ephron

  (1 Episode)

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  Surya Das

  (1 Episode)

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  Muhammad Yunus

  (1 Episode)

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  Ron Reagan

  (1 Episode)

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  Richard Branson

  (1 Episode)

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  Deborah Tannen

  (1 Episode)

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  Peter Singer

  (1 Episode)

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  Seth Meyers

  (1 Episode)

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  Claire Danes

  (1 Episode)

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  Diane Sawyer

  (1 Episode)

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  (1 Episode)

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  Willem Dafoe

  (1 Episode)

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  Neil Patrick Harris

  (1 Episode)

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  Niall Ferguson

  (1 Episode)

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  Jeffrey Sachs

  (1 Episode)

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  Thomas L. Friedman

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Michael Phelps

  (1 Episode)

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  Geraldo Rivera

  (1 Episode)

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  Brian Eno

  (1 Episode)

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  Lisa Jackson

  (1 Episode)

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  Barbara Walters

  (1 Episode)

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  Cat Stevens

  (1 Episode)

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  Harry Belafonte

  Self - Guest (1 Episode)

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  Martha Stewart

  (1 Episode)

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  Laird Hamilton

  (1 Episode)

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  Tom Brokaw

  (1 Episode)

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  Steve Coll

  (1 Episode)

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  David Gregory

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bradley Whitford

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sarah Vowell

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Maz Jobrani

  (1 Episode)

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  Conan O'Brien

  (1 Episode)

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  Talib Kweli

  (1 Episode)

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  John Edwards

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Paul Simon

  (1 Episode)

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  Steven Van Zandt

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Ralph Nader

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Lena Dunham

  (1 Episode)

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  Andy Cohen

  (1 Episode)

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  Emmylou Harris

  (1 Episode)

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  Rick Nielsen

  (1 Episode)

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  Gary Hart

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John Oliver

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Tom Hanks

  (1 Episode)

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  Andrew Young

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Ariel Levy

  (1 Episode)

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  Ed Helms

  (1 Episode)

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  Carl Bernstein

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Michael Smerconish

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Mike Mills

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Peter Buck

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Morley Safer

  (1 Episode)

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  Scott McCaughey

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Bill Berry

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sarah Palin

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Jamie Oliver

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Jeffrey Tambor

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Mike Mullen

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Lynn Sherr

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  James M. McPherson

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Leon Wieseltier

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Carol Burnett

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Robert Plant

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Walter Isaacson

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Justin Simien

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  William Deresiewicz

  Himself (1 Episode)

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  Meredith Vieira

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Jill Lepore

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Eva Longoria

  Herself (1 Episode)

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  Alexandra Pelosi

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Alan Dershowitz

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Paul Begala

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John Lewis

  (1 Episode)

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  Richard Brodhead

  (1 Episode)

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  Michael Jackson

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Martin Bashir

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Christian Valdemar Henri John

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Jack Kingston

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Katie Holmes

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Gina Kolata

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Juliet Huddy

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Mike Jerrick

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Jim Cramer

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Self (archive footage from Meet the Press 10/24/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Trace Gallagher

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Kathleen P.

  Self - Voice (caller from Austin, Texas) (1 Episode)

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  Cheryl G.

  Self - Voice (caller from St. Paul, Minnesota) (1 Episode)

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  Ana L.

  Self - Voice (caller from Memphis, Tennessee) (1 Episode)

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  Aaron B.

  Self - Voice (caller from Buffalo, New York) (1 Episode)

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  Steve Doocy

  Self (archive footage from Fox & Friends) (1 Episode)

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  Brian Kilmeade

  Self (archive footage from Fox & Friends) (1 Episode)

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  Ainsley Earhardt

  Self (archive footage from Fox & Friends) (1 Episode)

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  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Patrick Fitzgerald

  Self (archive footage from a press conference 10/28/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Ken Mehlman

  Self (archive footage from Meet the Press 10/30/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Camilla Shand

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Bruce Feiler

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Kelly Wallace

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Robyn Curnow

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Don Teague

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Drew Rosenhaus

  Self (archive footage from news conference 11/08/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Terrell Owens

  Self (archive footage from news conference 11/08/2005) (1 Episode)

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  Mary Roach

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John Mica

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Juan Gabriel

  Self (archive footage , fall from stage) (1 Episode)

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  Mark Udall

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Matt Taibbi

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Deborah M.

  Self (caller from Austin, Texas) (1 Episode)

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  Colton W.

  Self (caller from Poulsboro, Washington) (1 Episode)

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  Bill R.

  Self (caller from Canada) (1 Episode)

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  Leyla K.

  Self (caller from Waukesha, Wisconsin) (1 Episode)

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  Brian Greene

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jerry Mitchell

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Tom Skerritt

  Viper (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Randy Cunningham

  Self (archive footage) (1 Episode)

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  Lesley Stahl

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Larry Craig

  Self (uncredited) (1 Episode)

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  Charlie Crist

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jerry Nadler

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Jackie Speier

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

  Self (1 Episode)

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  John Dingell

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Judy Woodruff

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Phil Klay

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Kendrick Lamar

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Seth Rogen

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sarah Koenig

  Self (1 Episode)

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  James Corden

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Barack Obama

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Paul Farmer

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Christopher Nolan

  Self (1 Episode)

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  Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe

  Self (1 Episode)

TV Show Crew (77)