June 23, 2008 - June 26, 2008

Summertown, Somerset, Summerhill, and Summersville. Summer began that weekend.

On June 25 they changed to Coldspring, Chilton, and Colchester. This was the night Coldplay was on. The next night they switched back.

June 16, 2008 - June 19, 2008

Sandy Spit, La Jolla, Calblanque, Manly, and Khao Lak. Beach places again.

June 9, 2008 - June 12, 2008

Aden, Timbuktu, Khartoum, and Madras. Muslim Cities? That's all I got.

June 2, 2008 - June 5, 2008

Juno Ridge, Juniata, Juneau, Juniper, and June Lake. It was the first week of June.

May 27, 2008 - May 29, 2008

Asbury Park, Lincoln, and Philadelphia. This week was all about Bruce Springsteen.

May 12, 2008 - May 15, 2008

Troy, Pompeii, Atlantis, Babylon, and Constantinople. These were all ancient cities that no longer exist.

May 5, 2008 - May 8, 2008

Squaw Peak, Squaw Valley, Squaw Lake, Squaw Park, Squaw Creek, and Squaw Village. This week was pretty lazy.

April 28, 2008 - May 1, 2008

Maytown, Mayberry, Mayfield, Cape May, Mayday, and Maysville. May began that week.

April 21, 2008 - April 24, 2008

Hershey, Parma, Tarragona, Chedoar, Dijon, Sandwich. More food stuff, it seems.

April 14, 2008 - April 17, 2008

Laws, Tollette, Uncle Sam, Billings, Prosper, and Sale City. This was during tax time.

April 7, 2008 - April 10, 2008

Blaubeuren, Lac Vert, Roodepoort, and Orange. These were places with colors in their names.

March 17, 2008 - March 20, 2008
March 31, 2008 - April 3, 2008

Chapel Hill, Westwood, Memphis, Lawrence, and Springfield. This was during March Madness, and these places last multiple weeks.

March 10, 2008 - March 13, 2008

Quito, Sorong, Kampala, Kisangani, Libreville, and Singapore. Cities near the equator. One of my favorites.

March 3, 2008 - March 6, 2008

San Antonio, Chillicothe, Providence, and Rutland. I have no idea what these have in common. I wish I caught more of the cities on the globe this week to clue me in.

February 26, 2008 - February 28, 2008

Aspen, Cortina, Vail, Gstaad, and Stowe. These were famous places for skiing.

February 11, 2008 - February 14, 2008

Ipanema, Guantanamera, San Jose, and Katmandu. These were places in song titles. That's why Katmandu was spelled without the "h."

February 13 was the first show with the writers back, and they abandoned the song title places. The only cities on the globe I could make our were Parchment and Reading. They stayed up there for the February 14 show, as well.

February 4, 2008 - February 7, 2008

Chianti, Bordeaux, Cava, Chablis, Asti, and Tokaj. Wine places.

January 28, 2008 - January 31, 2008

Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, St. Augustine, and Tavernier. Florida's disputed primary was a big deal.

January 21, 2008 - January 24, 2008

Moscow, Helsinki, Reyjavik, Ottawa, Tallinn, and Ulan Bator. These were capitals of cold places. It was cold at the time.

January 14, 2008 - January 17, 2008

Princeton, Smallville, Tree Hill, Dillon, Scranton, and Jericho. The settings for television shows without writers.

January 7, 2008 - January 10, 2008

Hollywood, Uniontown, Unionbridge, and Tenstrike. The 2007-2008 WGA strike was underway, and the Daily Show was one of the few programs to return sans writers.

On January 9 the strike theme was abandoned in favor of Manchester, Concord, and Dixville Notch. This was the night of the New Hampshire primary. The next night the strike theme returned.

October 29, 2007 - November 1, 2007

Cooperstown, Boston, Lowell, Cleveland, Anaheim, and Denver. This was baseball week. Those were playoff teams, and one playoff player. They used baseball week again the next year.

On October 31, they actually did away with the baseball cities, and had Frankenstein, Tombstone, and Transylvania for Halloween. They went back to baseball the next night (which happened to have David Wright as a guest). That November 1 show would be the last until January 7, 2008. Stupid strike.

October 15, 2007 - October 18, 2007

Walla Walla, Podunk, Peoria, and Cucamonga. These were go-to "random" places. Hicksville could have been on there.

October 7, 2007 - October 11, 2007

Madras, Ningbo, Leeds, and Inchon. I can't really see what these places have in common. Sometimes these themes are topical, so it might have made more sense at the time.

October 1, 2007 - October 4, 2007

O'Fallon, Falls Church, Fallis, McFall, and Cuyahoga Falls. After the previous week, this looked almost lazy. It's seasonal, and has some unexpected use of "fall," though.

September 24, 2007 - September 27, 2007

Giza, Babylon, Alexandria, Olympia, Ephesus, and Halicarnassus. These were locations of the seven wonders of the ancient world. I didn't see Rhodes, but it might have been there. This was one of my favorites.

September 18, 2007 - September 20, 2007

Hamburg, Cayenne, Bologna, Corona Beach. These were things you eat/drink.

September 10, 2007 - September 13, 2007

Thermopylae, Hastings, Stalingrad, Gettysburg, Verdun, and Zama. These were famous battle sites. I went to one of the tapings this week, and I think there was at least one more city.

August 20, 2007 - August 23, 2007

St. Tropez, Cairns, Ipanema, Patong, Clifton, and Milos. These were beaches.

August 13, 2007 - August 16, 2007

Nakaunnayok, Bjelostock, Vladivastok, Gangtok, Woodstock, and Pitsanulok. Some of these were very difficult to transcribe.

August 7, 2007 - August 9, 2007

El Obeio, El Paso, El Alto, El Aaiun, and Elizabeth. Like the previous week with Monrovia, this one kind of included wordplay.

July 30, 2007 - August 2, 2007

Jackson, Madison, Washington, Cleveland, Lincoln, and Monrovia. I didn't see it, but I bet Jefferson City was in there, too. Very presidential.

July 23, 2007 - July 26, 2007

Bordeaux, Tacoma, Odessa, Wellington, Mumbai, and Vientiane. Maybe they went back to a random assortment of places.

July 16, 2007 - July 19, 2007

Kaduna, Belfast, Fukuoka, Montreal, and Rota. I can't see a theme among these. Rota and Fukuoka aren't major world cities. On July 18, when Matt Groening was a guest, the globe also included Springfield.

June 25, 2007 - June 28, 2007

As far as I can tell, this was our first "theme." After New York, there was New Fugumui, New Ilo, New Delhi, New Zia, and New Mirpur.

June 18, 2007 - June 21, 2007

Luanda, Sucre, Halifax, Tbilisi, Vaduz, Oaxaca, and Rome. If you looked Tbilisi up in Wikipedia around this time, you would've been better informed come the following summer.

June 11, 2007 - June 14, 2007

Riyadh, Irkutsk, Bangui, Havana, Paris, Kathmandu, and Tirana. The cities were piling up, but there's a pretty inexhaustible list from which to draw.

June 4, 2007 - June 7, 2007

Minsk, Canberra, Belmopan, Mangua, and Kigali. Some of these were good review for those who've slacked on geography.

May 21, 2007 - May 24, 2007

Portland, Manila, Damascus, Athens, Istanbul. Portland reminds me of Tucson.

May 15, 2007 - May 17, 2007

Shanghai, Havana, Florence, Honolulu, and Pretoria. If I had an HDTV, or were in the audience for every episode, I'd be able to catch more of these.

May 7, 2007 - May 10, 2007

Seville, Tucson, Jakarta, Caracas, Beirut, Kiev, Vienna, Lima, and Mecca. And New York, of course. Tucson is rather inexplicable.

April 30, 2007 - May 3, 2007

Christchurch, Harare, Quito, Berlin, Lima, Beijing, Auckland, Rome, and Seoul. New York stayed of course. New York is omnipresent. Chuck O'Neil was simply picking major world cities at this point.

April 9, 2007 was the first day of the Daily Show's new set. Above Jon's desk was a globe, and on this globe were cities. New York, Bangkok, Sydney, Atlanta, Hong Kong, Paris, Los Angeles, and Barcelona were among them. These cities stayed all week, through April 12. They were there the next week, from April 16 through April 19, and the following one, from April 23 through April 26. New York would stay always.