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

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   Armando Iannucci

   Armando Iannucci on “The Death of Stalin” · Mar 2018

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   Jerrod Carmichael

   Jerrod Carmichael, and the Truth About Impeachment · May 2017

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   Neil Gaiman

   Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives · Aug 2022

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   Bonnie Raitt

   Bonnie Raitt Talks with David Remnick · Feb 2023

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   Peter Dinklage

   Peter Dinklage on “Cyrano” · 2 episodes

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   Hasan Minhaj

   Hasan Minhaj and Kenan Thompson · 2 episodes

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   Jane Goodall

   Jane Goodall Talks with Andy Borowitz · Oct 2021

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   Kelefa Sanneh

   Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk · 3 episodes

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   Liesl Tommy

   Liesl Tommy, Director of “Respect” · Aug 2021

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    Yo-Yo Ma

    Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax on Beethoven’s Politics of the Cello · Jun 2021

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    Daniel Kaluuya
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    Andrew Bird
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    Glenn Close

    Glenn Close Doesn’t Play Evil (with One Exception) · May 2018

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    Heidi Schreck

    What the Constitution Means to the Playwright Heidi Schreck · May 2019

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    Patti Smith

    Patti Smith on Her Memoir “Bread of Angels,” Fifty Years After Her Début Album, “Horses” · 2 episodes

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    Jim Carrey

    Jim Carrey Doesn’t Exist (According to Jim Carrey) · Nov 2018

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    Janelle Monáe

    Janelle Monáe, from the Future to the Present · Oct 2018

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    Jeffrey Wright
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    Kenya Barris
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    Samantha Bee

    Episode 35: Samantha Bee’s Fury, and Staffing the Supreme Court · Jun 2016

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    Lily Tomlin

    Lily Tomlin on Love, and News from Moscow · Feb 2017

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    Brittany Howard

    Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes, Talks with David Remnick · Sep 2019

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    Nathan Lane

    Nathan Lane, Getting Serious, Plays Roy Cohn · Jan 2018

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    David Letterman

    Episode 63: Late-Night Icon David Letterman and Songwriter Jason Isbell · Dec 2016

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    Aaron Sorkin

    Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird” · 2 episodes

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    Jeff Tweedy

    Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, “Twilight Override” · Sep 2025

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    Kurt Vile

    Kurt Vile Talks with Amanda Petrusich · Feb 2021

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    Joan Jett

    Joan Jett’s Reputation · Oct 2018

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    Billy Eichner

    Billy Eichner on “Bros” and Joyce Carol Oates on “Blonde” · Sep 2022

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    Jon Ronson

    "Okja" and Other Strange Stories by Jon Ronson · Jun 2017

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    Al Gore

    Al Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip” · Oct 2023

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    Randy Newman
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    Al Franken

    Senator Al Franken Really Is Senatorial · Aug 2017

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    Aimee Mann

    Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande · 2 episodes

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    Pete Holmes
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    Lena Dunham

    Fear and the N.R.A., and Lena Dunham on the end of "Girls" · 2 episodes

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    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving · 4 episodes

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    Lin-Manuel Miranda

    With “The Warriors,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Takes on Another New York Story · 2 episodes

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    Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain’s Interview with David Remnick · 2 episodes

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    Margo Price

    The Country Singer Margo Price Talks with Emily Nussbaum · Apr 2023

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