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From 2005 to 2007, he was a correspondent for three seasons on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He additionally has recurring roles on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs, the HBO Max comedy series Made for Love, and the Netflix comedy Space Force.
- Stephen Colbert. When your Daily Show persona gets spun off into its own Comedy Central show, and when that show runs for nearly 1,500 episodes and wins multiple Emmy and Peabody Awards, and all that success leads directly to one of the most high-profile jobs in comedy?
- Samantha Bee. Stephen Colbert used to be the longest tenured correspondent on the show until Bee passed him (and then some). She parlayed her hilarious Daily Show outrage into a spectacular six-year run on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
- John Oliver. Oliver seemed like the natural choice to replace Stewart, but Comedy Central dragged its feet on signing Oliver to a new deal. HBO swept in, and here we are a few years later with Last Week Tonight and its 26 Emmy wins.
- Steve Carell. Did anyone watching The Daily Show in 2002 realize they were watching one of the biggest sitcom and movies stars of the next decade? The clues were there all along.
- Brian Unger (1996-1998) Of the original team from Craig Kilborn's tenure, no one captured that fake news gravitas better than Brian Unger. As the handsome, smug, but ultimately substance-less correspondent, he helped establish the show's bread and butter of interviewing ridiculous people who were completely unaware that they were being lampooned, like the shouting Texas evangelist turned Canadian soft-spoken hairstylist Jonathan Bell.
- Frank DeCaro (1996-2003) Gay icons are everywhere now on cable and network TV, but circa the mid-to-late Nineties, flamboyant, out-and-proud TV personalities were rare, and even fewer were funny.
- Josh Gad (2009-2011) Known better as the original lead in Broadway's uber-smash The Book of Mormon (or the voice of Olaf the snowman from Frozen, if you have kids), Gad only had a handful of appearances.
- Trevor Noah (2015) Yes, South Africa's Trevor Noah is no Jon Stewart, and he barely managed to log in a a handful of appearances before being handed the keys to the franchise.
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- Bob Wiltfong. Wiltfong joined the show at an unenviable time. The show had multiple recognizable stars in Ed Helms, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, and Rob Corddry.
- Dan Bakkedahl. Chances are, you know Bakkedahl from hs role on the Emmy-nominated HBO comedy Veep. But before he was Congressman Roger Furlong, he was part of The Daily Show‘s ever-growing stable or correspondents.
- A. Whitney Brown. Most of you probably remember A. Whitney Brown from his “Big Picture” segments on the Dennis Miller-helmed “Weekend Update” of the late 80s/early 90s.
- Beth Littleford. Littleford was one of the show’s original correspondents, working from its inception in 1996 up until 2000. Her work on the show generally centered around the entertainment industry, most notable in her “bETh” segments.
Nov 14, 2013 · Dan Bakkedahl. Dan Bakkedahl has a recurring role as Congressman Furlong on “Veep” and as Adrian Bergdahl in “The Mindy Project.” Mary Birdsong
Nov 27, 2013 · Dan Bakkedahl, 2005–07: Bakkedahl’s one of those correspondents who seems much more familiar from his non– TDS work than his time on the show. You recognize him now from Veep, Community,...
Jun 20, 2006 · Four pals must break an evil spell and change their fates when a classic kid's game to predict the future comes back to haunt them in the Comedy Central original movie Cursed Friends. For some reason, nobody wants to talk to Dan Bakkedahl about the Congressional Softball League.
