The BEST episodes of The Daily Show season 13

Every episode of The Daily Show season 13, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Daily Show season 13!

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Last Updated: 9/22/2025Network: Comedy CentralStatus: Continuing
Indecision 2008: America's Choice
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#1 - Indecision 2008: America's Choice

Season 13 - Episode 143 - Aired 11/4/2008

The towering giants of fake news reunite for their hour-long Election Night special, Indecision 2008: America's Choice. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert report live from Indecision World Headquarters where Comedy Central has rounded up the best researchers and consultants (that it can afford) to provide shallow analysis, obscure factoids, random guesses and pointless sound.

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#2 - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Season 13 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/2008

Mike Huckabee
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#3 - Mike Huckabee

Season 13 - Episode 158 - Aired 12/9/2008

Rod Blagojevich couldn't have made it any easier for the authorities to arrest him. Many of the nation's newspapers are on the brink of collapse thanks to the Internet. Mike Huckabee says the reason we have so much government is because people don't behave well with each other.

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#4 - Madeleine Albright

Season 13 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/26/2008

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#5 - Hillary Clinton

Season 13 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/3/2008

Tonight, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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#6 - Ronald Kessler

Season 13 - Episode 34 - Aired 3/12/2008

Philip Seymour Hoffman
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#7 - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Season 13 - Episode 160 - Aired 12/11/2008

Hall & Oates perform a song about Alan Colmes and how much he means to all of us. Larry Wilmore says African-Americans support Proposition 8 because marriage is their holiest of holy institutions. Philip Seymour Hoffman shares what he learned about the catholic church while filming "Doubt."

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#8 - Allen Guelzo

Season 13 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/27/2008

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3 votes

#9 - Tom Daschle

Season 13 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/6/2008

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#10 - Amb. John Bolton

Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/15/2008

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#11 - Fareed Zakaria

Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/2008

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#12 - Lou Dobbs

Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/2008

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#13 - John Zogby

Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2008

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3 votes

#14 - Ronald Seeber

Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2008

Tonight, a professor of labor relations at Cornell University who shares his views on worker strikes, Ronald Seeber. Jon begins tonights show by sharing his statement of solidarity with the writer's strike by showcasing his unibrow. Also, the show's name has been changed until the strike is over to A Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Jon then reports on the winners of the Iowa caucus. Finally, Jon summarizes the conflict surrounding the Writers Guild strike in a segment called "Space Reserved For Clever Pun".

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#15 - Martin Fletcher

Season 13 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/5/2008

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#16 - Phil Simms

Season 13 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/2008

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#17 - Lee Siegel

Season 13 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/14/2008

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#18 - Gen. William B. Caldwell

Season 13 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/10/2008

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#19 - Philip Shenon

Season 13 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/2008

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#20 - Mark Siegel

Season 13 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/2008

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#21 - Laton McCartney

Season 13 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/2008

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#22 - Karen Tumulty

Season 13 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/2008

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#23 - Jim Wallis

Season 13 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/22/2008

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#24 - P.J. O'Rourke

Season 13 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/2008

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#25 - Jon Meacham

Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/21/2008