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854 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Tracee Ellis Ross

   Tracee Ellis Ross on Being a “Black-ish” Woman and Jon Hamm Gets His Life Back from Don Draper · Jan 2018

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   John Lithgow

   John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling · Mar 2026

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   Bill Gates

   Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago · Jan 2025

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   Daniel Craig

   Daniel Craig Takes Off the Tux · Oct 2021

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   Alicia Keys

   Alicia Keys’s New York Musical Goes on National Tour · 2 episodes

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   Nikki Glaser

   Nikki Glaser at the Top of Her Game · Apr 2025

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   John Williams

   A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams · Jun 2023

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   John Goodman

   John Goodman, Jeremy Irons, and Keegan-Michael Key · Feb 2017

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   Sarah Paulson

   Sarah Paulson, the Star of Netflix’s “Ratched” · Aug 2020

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    Larry David

    Episode 45: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism · 3 episodes

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    Amy Schumer

    Episode Two: Amy Schumer, Jorge Ramos, and the Search for a Lost Father · Oct 2015

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    Kelly Clarkson

    Kelly Clarkson on Writing About Divorce · Sep 2023

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    Ronan Farrow

    Ronan Farrow on the Threat of Modern Spyware · 5 episodes

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    Rachel Maddow

    Rachel Maddow on the Fascist Threat in America, Then and Now · Nov 2024

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    Paul Simon
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    Kara Swisher

    Kara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People” · Mar 2024

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    Willem Dafoe

    Willem Dafoe on “Nosferatu” · Dec 2024

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    Greta Gerwig

    Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director · 2 episodes

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    John Legend

    Live at Home Part I: John Legend · 2 episodes

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    Kenan Thompson
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    Bradley Cooper

    Bradley Cooper Contends for Best Actor in “Maestro” · 2 episodes

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    Dave Grohl

    Dave Grohl’s Tales of Life and Music · 2 episodes

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    Jerry Seinfeld

    Jerry Seinfeld on Making a Life in Comedy (and Also, Pop-Tarts) · 2 episodes

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    Jon Stewart

    Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump · 3 episodes

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    Fred Armisen

    The Sounds of Summer, with Fred Armisen · 2 episodes

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    Jake Tapper

    Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up · May 2025

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    Julia Louis-Dreyfus

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again · 2 episodes

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    Jimmy Kimmel

    Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure · Sep 2025

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    Guillermo del Toro

    Guillermo del Toro and Bradley Cooper on the Enduring Appeal of Noir · Feb 2022

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    Rickie Lee Jones

    Rickie Lee Jones’s Life on the Road · 2 episodes

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    Paul Scheer

    Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the Very Worst Movies · Jun 2024

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    Molly Ringwald

    Molly Ringwald, Judd Apatow, and #MeToo · Jun 2018

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    Lily Gladstone

    Lily Gladstone on Holding the Door Open for More Native Actors in Hollywood. Plus, the Brody Awards · Feb 2024

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    Jacqueline Novak

    Jacqueline Novak Is Giving Audiences “Everything She’s Got” · Feb 2024

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    Joan Baez

    Joan Baez Is Still Protesting · Oct 2018

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    Naomi Klein

    Naomi Klein Speaks with Jia Tolentino about “Doppelganger” · 2 episodes

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    Maria Bamford

    Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore · Feb 2016

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    Paul Schrader

    Paul Schrader: Movies as Religion · May 2018

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    Brooke Shields

    Brooke Shields on the Sexualization of Girls in Hollywood · Apr 2023

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    Quinta Brunson

    Quinta Brunson, a “Child of the Internet,” Revives the Sitcom · Nov 2022

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