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Guests

 

Below is just a partial list of past guests on Kickass News.

ACTORS 

Alan Alda

Ed Asner

Hank Azaria

Bob Balaban

Alec Baldwin

Jack Black

Kenneth Branagh

Jeff Bridges

Carol Burnett

Steve Buscemi

Michael Caine

Gemma Chan

John Cleese

Carrie Coon

Rob Corddry

Liam Cunningham

Bryan Cranston

Willem Dafoe

Jeff Daniels

Jenna Elfman

Walton Goggins

Topher Grace

Bill Hader

Jon Hamm

Ethan Hawke

Ed Helms

Abbi Jacobson

Richard Jenkins

Nathan Lane

John Lithgow

Andie MacDowell

Matthew McConaughey

Malcolm McDowell

Wagner Moura

Bill Murray

Edward Norton

John C. Reilly

Rob Riggle

Andrea Riseborough

Tim Robbins

Wyatt Russell

Alicia Silverstone

Hilary Swank

George Takei

Billy Bob Thornton

Henry Winkler

COMEDY

Louie Anderson

Anthony Atamanuik

W. Kamau Bell

Mike Birbiglia

Bo Burnham

Adam Carolla

Wyatt Cenac

Whitney Cummings

Jim Gaffigan

Jeff Garlin

Chris Gethard

Nikki Glaser

Gilbert Gottfried

Chelsea Handler

John Hodgman

Pete Holmes

Martha Kelly

Jordan Klepper

Jo Koy

Larry the Cable Guy

Rich Little

Al Madrigal

Howie Mandel

Demetri Martin

Thomas Middleditch

Trevor Noah

Patton Oswalt

Tom Papa

Russell Peters

Paul Reiser

Mo Rocca

Paul Rodriguez

Ben Schwartz

David Sedaris

Harry Shearer

Iliza Shlesinger

The Sklar Brothers

David Steinberg

Bassam Youssef

Alan Zweibel

LAW

Gloria Allred

Preet Bharara

Alan Dershowitz

Lawrence Lessig

Cass Sunstein

Jeffrey Toobin

MILITARY

Ash Carter

Gen. Wesley Clark

Daniel Ellsberg

Robert Gates

Stephen Hadley

Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Adm. William McRaven

Gen. David Petraeus

Donald Rumsfeld

Adm. James Stavridis

Paul Wolfowitz

MUSIC

Roger Daltrey

John Densmore

Peter Frampton

Lenny Kravitz

Jan Vogler

POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

Gov. Greg Abbott

Stacey Abrams

David Axelrod

Paul Begala

Sen. Marsha Blackburn

Fred Barnes

Glenn Beck

Arthur Brooks

Sen. Sherrod Brown

Jenna Bush

Barbara Bush

Ben Carson

James Carville

Julian Castro

Gov. Chris Christie

Sen. Tom Cotton

Anne Coulter

Sen. Tom Daschle

Sen. Al Franken

David Frum

Newt Gingrich

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Hugh Hewitt

Valerie Jarrett

Gov. John Hickenlooper

Gov. John Kasich

Sally Kohn 

Bill Kristol

Sen. Mike Lee

Corey Lewandowski

Sen. Trent Lott

Rich Lowry

Mary Matalin

Gov. Terry McAuliffe

Rep. Michael McCaul

Sen. Mitch McConnell

Mark McKinnon

Michael Medved

Sen. Jeff Merkley

Rep. Seth Moulton

P.J. O’Rourke

Jennifer Palmieri

Leon Panetta

Dana Perino

Dan Pfeiffer

Sen. Rob Portman

Dennis Prager

Karl Rove

Sen. Ben Sasse

Ben Shapiro

Stuart Stevens

Roger Stone

George Will

Rick Wilson

Juan Williams

FILM

Judd Apatow

Peter Bogdonavich

Ken Burns

Larry Charles

Lee Daniels

Jay and Mark Duplass

Greta Gerwig

Alex Gibney

Ron Howard

Armando Ianucci

Barry Levinson

David Mamet

Ben Manciewicz

Steve McQueen

Billy Ray

Rob Reiner

Jay Roach

Ridley Scott

Barry Sonnenfeld

Oliver Stone

John Waters

George C. Wolfe

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BUSINESS/ECONOMICS

Richard Branson

Steve Case

John Chambers

Steve Forbes

Austan Goolsbee

Larry Kudlow

Eric Schmidt

Stephen Schwarzman

FOOD/TRAVEL

Jose Andres

Mario Batali

Anthony Bourdain

David Chang

Josh Gates

Magnus Nilsson

Phil Rosenthal

Andrew Zimmern

HISTORY

H.W. Brands

Ron Chernow

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Walter Isaacson

David McCullough

Jon Meacham

NATIONAL SECURITY

John Bolton

James Clapper

Richard Clarke

Michael Hayden

H.R. McMaster

Philip Mudd

Malcolm Nance

Janet Napolitano

JOURNALISTS 

Jim Acosta

Bret Baier

Tina Brown

David Corn

Dan Harris

Arianna Huffington

Michael Isikoff

David Cay Johnston

Sebastian Junger

Brian Kilmeade

Ezra Klein

Lawrence O’Donnell

Scott Pelley

Dan Rather

Joy-Ann Reid

Joe Scarborough

Lesley Stahl

Jake Tapper

Jacob Weisberg

Bob Woodward

SCIENCE/MEDICINE

Robert Ballard

Elizabeth Blackburn

Nick Bostrom

Francis Collins

Brian Cox

Richard Dawkins

Jared Diamond

Michio Kaku

Kevin Kelly

David Kessler

Lawrence Krauss

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Vivek Murthy

Randall Munroe

Adam Savage

Capt. Scott Kelly

Brad Stone

Steven Pinker

Alec Ross

Michael Shermer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

SPORTS

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Verne Lundquist

John McEnroe

Maria Sharapova

WORLD AFFAIRS 

Madeleine Albright

Danny Ayalon

Ehud Barak

Vicente Fox

Garry Kasparov

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Robert Malley

Michael McFaul

George Mitchell

Samantha Power

Ben Rhodes

Susan Rice

Kevin Rudd

Wendy Sherman

George Shultz

Anne-Marie Slaughter

AUTHORS

Mitch Albom

Michael Connelly

Patricia Cornwell

Neil Gaiman

Malcolm Gladwell

Dean Koontz

Brad Meltzer

Philipp Meyer

James Patterson

Salman Rushdie

Daniel Silva

OTHER

Father Greg Boyle

Erin Brockovich

Dick Cavett

John Douglas

Aaron Mahnke

Roman Mars

Dr. Phil McGraw

Platon

Al Roker

Mike Rowe

Pete Souza

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