Season 17 Details Casts Episode Lists of Season 17 Title Season 17 Genres News Comedy Air Date 2011-10-03 Episode Runtime 00 Hours 30 Minutes Season Number 17 Episode Count On Season 17 157 Production Companies MTV Jon Stewart Self - Host Wyatt Cenac Self - Correspondent Samantha Bee Self - Correspondent Adrianne Frost Self - Correspondent Bob Wiltfong Self - Correspondent Brian Unger Self - Correspondent Jerry Minor Self - Correspondent Frank DeCaro Self - Contributor 'Out ? Matt Walsh Self - Correspondent Michael Showalter Self - Correspondent Nancy Carell Self - Correspondent Rachael Harris Self - Correspondent Stacey Grenrock-Woods Self - Correspondent Episode 1 2011-10-03 Thomas Friedman... Episode 2 2011-10-04 Michael Lewis... Episode 3 2011-10-05 Hugh Jackman... Episode 4 2011-10-06 Jason Sudeikis... Episode 5 2011-10-17 Ellen Schultz... Episode 6 2011-10-18 Calvin Trillin... Episode 7 2011-10-19 Al Sharpton... Episode 8 2011-10-20 Richard Brookhiser... Episode 9 2011-10-24 Kevin Clash... Episode 10 2011-10-25 Walter Isaacson... Episode 11 2011-10-26 Lisa Randall... Episode 12 2011-10-27 Andrew Napolitano... Episode 13 2011-10-31 Mindy Kaling... Episode 14 2011-11-01 Condoleezza Rice... Episode 15 2011-11-02 Tom Brokaw... Episode 16 2011-11-03 Brad Paisley... Episode 17 2011-11-07 Clint Eastwood... Episode 18 2011-11-08 Bill Clinton... Episode 19 2011-11-09 Nancy Pelosi... Episode 20 2011-11-10 Adam Sandler... Episode 21 2011-11-14 Leymah Gbowee... Episode 22 2011-11-15 Mark Kelly... Episode 23 2011-11-16 Diane Keaton... Episode 24 2011-11-17 Martin Scorsese... Episode 25 2011-11-28 Merrill Markoe... Episode 26 2011-11-29 Betty White... Episode 27 2011-11-30 Bono... Episode 28 2011-12-01 Bob Costas... Episode 29 2011-12-05 Ben Lowy... Episode 30 2011-12-06 Jonah Hill... Episode 31 2011-12-07 Ralph Fiennes... Episode 32 2011-12-08 Ed Gillespie... Episode 33 2011-12-12 Anne Burrell... Episode 34 2011-12-13 Lawrence Lessig... Episode 35 2011-12-14 Melody Barnes... Episode 36 2011-12-15 Matt Damon... Episode 37 2012-01-03 Charles Barkley... Episode 38 2012-01-04 Elizabeth Dowling Taylor... Episode 39 2012-01-05 Craig Shirley... Episode 40 2012-01-09 George Lucas... Episode 41 2012-01-10 Andrew Napolitano... Episode 42 2012-01-11 Jim DeMint... Episode 43 2012-01-12 Dolly Parton... Episode 44 2012-01-16 Jodi Kantor... Episode 45 2012-01-17 Liam Neeson... Episode 46 2012-01-18 Joe Nocera... Episode 47 2012-01-19 Elizabeth Banks... Episode 48 2012-01-23 Kathleen Sebelius... Episode 49 2012-01-24 Elizabeth Warren... Episode 50 2012-01-25 Paula Broadwell... Episode 51 2012-01-26 Tilda Swinton... Episode 52 2012-01-30 Lou Dobbs... Episode 53 2012-01-31 Jonathan Macey... Episode 54 2012-02-01 Brad Pitt... Episode 55 2012-02-02 David Agus... Episode 56 2012-02-13 Ali Soufan... Episode 57 2012-02-14 Ricky Gervais... Episode 58 2012-02-15 Louise Slaughter... Episode 59 2012-02-16 Arne Duncan... Episode 60 2012-02-20 Alan Huffman & Michael Re... Episode 61 2012-02-21 Russ Feingold... Episode 62 2012-02-22 Bruce Bartlett... Episode 63 2012-02-23 Paul Rudd... Episode 64 2012-02-27 Neil deGrasse Tyson... Episode 65 2012-02-28 Stephen Merchant... Episode 66 2012-02-29 Masha Gessen... Episode 67 2012-03-01 M. Cathleen Kaveny... Episode 68 2012-03-05 Shaun Donovan... Episode 69 2012-03-06 Julianne Moore... Episode 70 2012-03-07 Cecile Richards... Episode 71 2012-03-08 Trita Parsi... Episode 72 2012-03-12 Grover Norquist... Episode 73 2012-03-13 Will Ferrell... Episode 74 2012-03-14 Rachel Weisz... Episode 75 2012-03-15 No Guest... Episode 76 2012-03-26 Shaquille O'Neal... Episode 77 2012-03-27 Maria Goodavage... Episode 78 2012-03-28 Ahmed Rashid... Episode 79 2012-03-29 Rachel Maddow... Episode 80 2012-04-02 Mohamed Nasheed... Episode 81 2012-04-03 Thomas C. Goldstein... Episode 82 2012-04-04 Jack L. Goldsmith... Episode 83 2012-04-05 Anthony Bourdain... Episode 84 2012-04-09 Tim Weiner... Episode 85 2012-04-10 Elon Musk... Episode 86 2012-04-11 Ricky Gervais... Episode 87 2012-04-12 Esperanza Spalding... Episode 88 2012-04-16 Jane Goodall... Episode 89 2012-04-17 Julia Louis-Dreyfus... Episode 90 2012-04-18 Robert Reich... Episode 91 2012-04-19 Judy Smith... Episode 92 2012-04-23 Ben Rattray... Episode 93 2012-04-24 Madeleine Albright... Episode 94 2012-04-25 Jason Segel... Episode 95 2012-04-26 Robert Draper... Episode 96 2012-04-30 Zach Wahls... Episode 97 2012-05-01 David Barton... Episode 98 2012-05-02 Tom Coburn... Episode 99 2012-05-03 Peter Bergen... Episode 100 2012-05-07 Admiral General Aladeen... Episode 101 2012-05-08 Ivo Daalder... Episode 102 2012-05-09 John R. Hall... Episode 103 2012-05-10 Robert Caro... Episode 104 2012-05-29 Michelle Obama... Episode 105 2012-05-30 Dan Rather... Episode 106 2012-05-31 Jim Parsons... Episode 107 2012-06-04 Thomas Mann & Norman Orns... Episode 108 2012-06-05 Gary Johnson... Episode 109 2012-06-06 Michael Fassbender... Episode 110 2012-06-07 Edward Conard... Episode 111 2012-06-11 Boris Johnson... Episode 112 2012-06-12 Colin Powell... Episode 113 2012-06-13 Maggie Gyllenhaal... Episode 114 2012-06-14 Catherine Zeta-Jones... Episode 115 2012-06-18 Parmy Olson... Episode 116 2012-06-19 Denis Leary... Episode 117 2012-06-20 Steve Carell... Episode 118 2012-06-21 Bassem Youssef... Episode 119 2012-06-25 Marco Rubio... Episode 120 2012-06-26 Seth MacFarlane... Episode 121 2012-06-27 Andrew Garfield... Episode 122 2012-06-28 Tenacious D... Episode 123 2012-07-16 Louis C.K.... Episode 124 2012-07-17 Victor Cruz... Episode 125 2012-07-18 Sigourney Weaver... Episode 126 2012-07-19 E.J. Dionne... Episode 127 2012-07-23 Fareed Zakaria... Episode 128 2012-07-24 Matthew McConaughey... Episode 129 2012-07-25 Joseph Stiglitz... Episode 130 2012-07-26 Zach Galifianakas & Will ... Episode 131 2012-07-30 Rashida Jones... Episode 132 2012-07-31 Dambisa Moyo... Episode 133 2012-08-01 Fred Guterl... Episode 134 2012-08-02 Jessica Biel... Episode 135 2012-08-06 Tim Gunn... Episode 136 2012-08-07 Saima Wahab... Episode 137 2012-08-08 Chris Rock... Episode 138 2012-08-09 Joanna Brooks... Episode 139 2012-08-13 Robert Pattinson... Episode 140 2012-08-14 Misty May-Treanor... Episode 141 2012-08-15 Brian Williams... Episode 142 2012-08-16 Rob Corddry... Episode 143 2012-08-28 Marco Rubio... Episode 144 2012-08-29 Herman Cain... Episode 145 2012-08-30 Michael Steele... Episode 146 2012-08-31 GOP Convention 2012: Frid... Episode 147 2012-09-04 Tom Brokaw... Episode 148 2012-09-05 Kirsten Gillibrand... Episode 149 2012-09-06 Austan Goolsbee... Episode 150 2012-09-07 DNC Friday... Episode 151 2012-09-17 Kofi Annan... Episode 152 2012-09-18 Salman Rushdie... Episode 153 2012-09-19 Pink... Episode 154 2012-09-20 Bill Clinton... Episode 155 2012-09-25 King Abdullah II... Episode 156 2012-09-26 Olivia Wilde... Episode 157 2012-09-27 Amar'e Stoudemire...