Guest Stars Jon Stewart as Himself Michael Stipe as Himself Charlie Rose as Himself Bryan Cranston as Himself Vince Gilligan as Himself Mandy Patinkin as Himself Neil deGrasse Tyson as Himself Willie Nelson as Himself Toby Keith as Himself Katie Couric as Herself Henry Kissinger as Himself Bill Clinton as Himself Jeff Tweedy as Himself Terry Gross as Herself Joe Quesada as Himself Sam Waterston as Himself Tim Meadows as Himself Ken Burns as Himself Alex Trebek as Himself Patrick Stewart as Himself Alan Alda as Himself James Franco as Himself J.J. Abrams as Himself Elijah Wood as Himself Jeff Daniels as Himself Cyndi Lauper as Herself George Lucas as Himself Andy Cohen as Himself Barry Manilow as Himself Yo-Yo Ma as Himself Shane Smith as Himself Randy Newman as Himself Tom Brokaw as Himself Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Himself Ric Ocasek as Himself Mark Cuban as Himself Christiane Amanpour as Herself Bob Costas as Himself Jon Batiste as Himself Cory Booker as Himself (Cory A. Booker) Doris Kearns Goodwin as Herself Mike Huckabee as Himself Keith Olbermann as Himself David Leonhardt as Themselves David Hallberg as Himself David Gregory as Himself Francis Collins as Himself Nicholas Kristof as Himself Stone Phillips as Himself Steven Pinker as Himself Samantha Power as Herself Tom Friedman as Himself (Thomas Friedman) Eliot Spitzer as Himself Arianna Huffington as Herself Dan Savage as Himself Alexi Lalas as Himself Andrew Sullivan as Himself Bill de Blasio as Himself (Bill De Blasio) Claire McCaskill as Herself Dean Kamen as Themselves Eleanor Holmes Norton as Herself Ray Odierno as Themselves Emily Bazelon as Herself Gloria Steinem as Herself Grover Norquist as Himself Matt Taibbi as Himself Maureen Dowd as Herself Norman Ornstein as Himself Paul Krugman as Himself Pussy Riot as Themselves
