Guests
Regular contributors featured on the show in its Current TV run as of June 2011 include:
- David Shuster, former MSNBC anchor and "primary substitute anchor" since June 7, 2011
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone journalist
- Michael Moore, filmmaker
- Ken Burns, documentarian
- Richard Lewis, comedian and actor
- Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report and occasional substitute anchor.
- Markos Moulitsas, creator of Daily Kos
- John Dean, former White House Counsel to Richard Nixon—political
- Heather McGhee, Director of the Washington office of Demos
- Jonathan Turley, law professor at The George Washington University School of Law
- Maysoon Zayid, comedian and activist
- Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones energy and environmental reporter
- Jeremy Scahill, investigative journalist and author
- Donald Sutherland, actor
- Mark Ruffalo, actor
- Derrick Pitts, astronomer
- Nicole Lamoureux, the executive director of the National Association of Free Clinics
Regular contributors in the show's broadcast history on MSNBC included:
- Jonathan Alter, senior editor for Newsweek magazine—political
- Margaret Carlson, TIME Magazine columnist and author of Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House
- Chris Cillizza, blogger for The Washington Post
- Howard Fineman, Newsweek contributor—political
- Christian Finnegan, comedian—tabloid/entertainment
- Christopher Hayes, Washington, D.C. editor for The Nation
- Chris Kofinis, Democratic political strategist
- Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman
- Eugene Robinson, newspaper columnist for The Washington Post
- Paul F. Tompkins, comedian—tabloid/entertainment
- Richard Wolffe, Newsweek—politicalHouse—journalistic, political
- Lynn Woolsey, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
- Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of politics and African-American studies, Princeton University—political
- Jason Bateman, actor—pop culture
- Shannyn Moore, contributor to Huffington Post
- Wesley Clark, retired four-star general—military analyst for MSNBC
- E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post
- John Harwood, New York Times writer and CNBC contributing reporter—political
- Richard Justice, Sports Writer for the Houston Chronicle
- Rachel Maddow, who also served as a substitute anchor from April through August in 2008 before getting her own MSNBC show.
- General Barry McCaffrey, Ret. — military
- Joel McHale, host of the E! show The Soup - pop culture
- Maria Milito, New York disc jockey — American Idol
- Michael Musto, editor of The Village Voice— tabloid/entertainment
- Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC political analyst and host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
- Tom O'Neil, editor of Entertainment Weekly—entertainment
- Clarence Page, columnist and member of the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune
- Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight.com - for 2008 presidential election prediction
- Jon Soltz, Iraq War Veteran, Co-Founder and Chairman of VoteVets.org
- Chuck Todd, political director for NBC News
- Clint Van Zandt, former FBI profiler—abductions/murders
- Robin Wright, diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post —terrorism and international events
Interviews with comedians were featured regularly during the final segment of the show; notable appearances have included George Carlin, Lewis Black, Mo Rocca, and John Cleese.
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