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The Playboy interviews set a high standard for periodical journalism,[1][2] and the feature has been referenced by mainstream publications such as AP News, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Slate, Variety, Vice, and The Washington Post as a benchmark for in-depth interviews.
The Los Angeles Times described the subjects as coming from "all across the cultural spectrum: entertainment, politics, literature", calling them "open-ended, sprawling, a kind of 'Charlie Rose Show' of the printed page",[3] and Playboy's format served as inspiration for Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner when he designed his own magazine's interview features.[4]
The Playboy interview with candidate Jimmy Carter is regarded by many to have influenced the 1976 Presidential election,[5] and the interview with John Lennon before his death (later published as a standalone book) is referenced in several retrospective articles by other media.[6][7] Dark Horse has published five collections of the interviews: "The Comedians", "Movers and Shakers" (business), "The Directors", "Larger Than Life" (high-profile celebrities), and "They Played The Game" (sports).[8] In a review of this series, the Director's Guild of America said, "The Playboy face-to-face encounter is remarkable", and "the lengthy, in-depth interviews are well researched and more penetrating than standard-issue media chatter."[9]
The following people have been featured in Playboy magazine as the subject of the full-length interview or the "20Q (Twenty Questions)" section.
1960–1969
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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1962[10] | Interview | "Playboy Interview" begins September 1962: | Miles Davis[11] | (none) | (none) | Jackie Gleason | |||||||
1963[12] | Interview | (none) | Frank Sinatra[11] | Bertrand Russell | Helen Gurley Brown | Malcolm X[13] | Billy Wilder[14] | (none) | (none) | Richard Burton | Jawaharlal Nehru | James Hoffa[3] | Albert Schweitzer |
1964[15] | Interview | Vladimir Nabokov[16] | (none) | Ayn Rand[17] | Jean Genet | (none) | Ingmar Bergman | Salvador Dalí | Dick Gregory | Henry Miller | Cassius Clay | George Wallace | Ian Fleming |
1965[18] | Interview | Martin Luther King[19] | The Beatles | (none) | Art Buchwald | Jean-Paul Sartre | Melvin Belli | Marcello Mastroianni | Robert Shelton | Peter O'Toole | Madalyn Murray | Sean Connery | Al Capp |
1966[20] | Interview | Princess Grace | Federico Fellini | Bob Dylan[21] | George Lincoln Rockwell | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Mike Nichols | Ralph Ginzburg | H. L. Hunt | Timothy Leary | Mel Brooks | Norman Thomas | Sammy Davis Jr. |
1967[22] | Interview | Fidel Castro[4] | Mark Lane | Orson Welles | Arnold Toynbee | Woody Allen | (none) | Michael Caine | F. Lee Bailey | John V. Lindsay | Jim Garrison | Michelangelo Antonioni | Johnny Carson |
1968[23] | Interview | Norman Mailer | Jim Brown | Truman Capote | Charles Percy | Masters and Johnson | John Kenneth Galbraith | Paul Newman | (none) | Stanley Kubrick | Ralph Nader | Don Rickles | (none) |
1969[24] | Interview | Martin Luther King Jr.[25] | Mort Sahl | Marshall McLuhan | Allen Ginsburg | Bill Cosby | Gore Vidal | Rod Steiger | Ramsey Clark | (none) | Rowan and Martin | Jesse Jackson | Joe Namath |
1970–1979
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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1970[26] | Interview | Raquel Welch | (none) | Ray Charles | Mary Calderone | William F. Buckley Jr. | Tiny Tim | Joan Baez | Paul Ehrlich | Peter Fonda | William Kunstler | Elliott Gould | Robert Graves |
1971[27] | Interview | (none) | Tom Murton | Dick Cavett | (none) | John Wayne | Albert Speer | John Cassavetes | George McGovern | Jules Feiffer | Charles Evers | Allen Klein | Roman Polanski |
1972[28] | Interview | Germain Greer | R. Buckminster Fuller | Saul Alinsky | Jack Nicholson | Howard Cosell | Jackie Stewart | Anthony Herbert | Sam Peckinpah | Bernadette Devlin | Meir Kahane | Jack Anderson | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
1973[29] | Interview | Carroll O'Connor | Milton Friedman | Joe Frazier | Tennessee Williams | Huey Newton | Walter Cronkite | Kurt Vonnegut Jr.[25] | David Halberstam | (none) | Pete Rozelle | James Dickey | Bob Hope |
1974[30] | Interview | Hugh Hefner | Clint Eastwood | Groucho Marx | Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden | Henry Aaron | Elmo Zumwalt | Barry Commoner | Erich Von Daniken | Anthony Burgess | Al Goldstein | Hunter Thompson | Robert Redford |
1975[31] | Interview | John Dean | Mel Brooks | Billie Jean King | Dustin Hoffman | William E. Simon | Joseph Heller | Francis Ford Coppola | Philip Agee | Erica Jong | Cher | Muhammad Ali | Jimmy Hoffa |
1976[32] | Interview | Elton John[11] | James Caan | Norman Lear | Jerry Brown | Abbie Hoffman | Sara Jane Moore | Karl Hess | Robert Altman | David Bowie | Roone Arledge | Jimmy Carter[5] | O. J. Simpson |
1977[33] | Interview | Alex Haley | Keith Stroup | Pat Moynihan | Gary Gilmore | Cast of Saturday Night Live | Robert Blake | Andrew Young | Henry Winkler | James Earl Ray | Barbra Streisand | Henry Kyemba | John Denver |
1978[34] | Interview | Playboy Panel: UFOs | Don Meredith | Bob Dylan[11] | David Frost | Anita Bryant | George Burns | William Colby | Ted Turner | Sylvester Stallone | Dolly Parton[11] | Geraldo Rivera | John Travolta |
20Q | "20Q" begins October 1978: | Cheryl Tiegs | (none) | (none) | |||||||||
1979[35] | Interview | Marlon Brando | Neil Simon | Ted Patrick | Malcolm Forbes | Wendy/Walter Carlos | Dennis Kucinich | Joseph Wambaugh | Edward Teller | Pete Rose | Burt Reynolds | Masters and Johnson | Al Pacino |
20Q | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dan Rather | (none) | (none) | Frank Langella | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
1980-1989
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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1980[36] | Interview | Steve Martin | Patrick Caddell | Terry Bradshaw | Linda Rondstat | Gay Talese | John Anderson | Bruce Jenner | William Shockley | Roy Scheider | G. Gordon Liddy | Larry Hagman | George C. Scott |
20Q | (none) | (none) | Shelley Hack | (none) | (none) | (none) | George Hamilton | (none) | (none) | (none) | Michael Douglas | Truman Capote | |
1981[37] | Interview | John Lennon / Yoko Ono[11] | Tom Snyder | James Garner | Ed Asner | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Steve Garvey | Robert Garwood | George Gilder | James Michener | Donald Sutherland | Oriana Fallaci | Henry Fonda |
20Q | (none) | (none) | Lauren Hutton | (none) | John De Lorean | Jack Lemmon | (none) | Joan Rivers | (none) | (none) | (none) | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
1982[38] | Interview | George Carlin[25] | Lech Walesa | Patricia Hearst | Edward Koch | Billy Joel | Sugar Ray Leonard | Bette Davis | Akio Morita | Cheech and Chong | Robin Williams | Luciano Pavorotti | Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards |
20Q | John Matuszak | Karen Allen | Louis Rukeyser | James Woods | SCTV | Brandon Tartikoff | Stevie Nicks | Mariette Hartley | Tom Petty | John Le Boutillier | Frank and Moon Unit Zappa | (none) | |
1983[39] | Interview | Dudley Moore | Gabriel García Márquez | Sam Donaldson | Paul Newman | Ansel Adams | Stephen King | Earl Weaver | Ted Turner | The Sandinistas, Daniel Ortega | Cast of Hill Street Blues | Kenny Rogers | Tom Selleck |
20Q | Herschel Walker | Yakov Smirnoff | Arthur Jones | Al McGuire | Charlton Heston | Debra Winger | Carrie Fisher | Jan Stephenson | Randy Newman | Joe Piscopo | Bubba Smith | (none) | |
1984[40] | Interview | Dan Rather | Paul Simon | Moses Malone | Joan Collins | Calvin Klein | Jesse Jackson | Walid Jumblatt | Bobby Knight | Shirley Mac Laine | David Letterman | José Napoleón Duarte | Paul and Linda McCartney |
20Q | (none) | Shelley Long | (none) | Martin Mull | (none) | Siskel and Ebert | Fran Lebowitz | Kurt Russell | (none) | Jack La Lanne | Leigh Steinberg | (none) | |
1985[41] | Interview | Goldie Hawn | Steve Jobs[16] | Cast of 60 Minutes | Wayne Gretzky | Boy George | Sparky Anderson | Rob Reiner | Fidel Castro | John Huston | John De Lorean | Sting | Bill Cosby |
20Q | Diane Lane | Brian De Palma | Bob Giraldi | Joel Hyatt | Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns | Ton Watson | Jamie Lee Curtis | Ron Howard | Billy Crystal | Rosanna Arquette | Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas | Huey Lewis | |
1986[42] | Interview | ||||||||||||
20Q | |||||||||||||
1987[43] | Interview | Don Johnson | Mickey Rourke | Lionel Richie | Louis Rukeyser | Prince Norodom Sihanouk | Whoopi Goldberg | Wade Boggs | Imelda And Ferdinand Marcos | John Sculley | General Richard Secord | Daniel Ortega | Gore Vidal |
20Q | Max Headroom | Ed Begley Jr. | Bob Vila | Rae Dawn Chong | Barbara Hershey | Michael J. Fox | Garry Shandling | David Lee Roth | Penn And Teller | Bob Uecker | Kelly McGillis | Justine Bateman | |
1988[44] | Interview | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Oliver Stone | Billy Crystal | Don King | Chevy Chase | Paul Hogan | Harvey Fierstein | Yasir Arafat | Roger Craig | Bruce Willis | Cher | |
20Q | Susan Dey | Harold Washington | Tom Waits | Harrison Ford | Teri Garr | Theresa Russell | Judge Reinhold | Harry Edwards | Tracey Ullman | Morton Downey Jr. | John Cleese | Gene Simmons | |
1989[45] | Interview | ||||||||||||
20Q |
1990-1999
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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1990[46] | Interview | Tom Cruise | Eddie Murphy | Donald Trump | Stephen Hawking | Dave Barry | Cast of thirtysomething | Quincy Jones | Larry King | Rickey Henderson | Shintaro Ishihara | Leona Helmsley | Jay Leno |
20Q | Andrew Dice Clay | Dwight Yoakam | Dennis Hopper | John Larroquette | Jennifer Tilly | Willy T. Ribbs | Matt Groening | Dana Carvey | Maury Povich | Kiefer Sutherland | Chuck D | Elizabeth Perkins | |
1991[47] | Interview | Lee Iacocca | Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert[16] | M. Scott Peck | Martin Scorcese | George Steinbrenner | Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer | Spike Lee | Daryl Gates | Douglas Wilder | Robert Maxwell | Sean Penn | Carl Sagan |
20Q | -- | Lena Olin | -- | George Foreman | Whitney Houston | John Milius | Eric Bogosian | Robert Downey Jr. | Danny Glover | Camille Paglia | Julia Roberts | Joe Pesci | |
1992[48] | Interview | Robin Williams[25] | Liz Smith | Lorne Michaels | Jonathan Kozol | Michael Jordan | Ralph Nader | Michael Keaton | Derek Humphry | Betty Friedan | Sister Souljah | William Safire | Sharon Stone |
20Q | Woody Harrelson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Forest Whitaker | Bobcat Goldthwait | John Leguizamo | Patrick Swayze | Nicole Kidman | Catherine Crier | Dennis Miller | Tim Robbins | Patrick Stewart | Helmut Newton | |
1993[49] | Interview | Frank Zappa[11] | |||||||||||
20Q | |||||||||||||
1994[50] | Interview | David Letterman | Pete Townshend | Anthony Hopkins | Howard Stern | Ron Howard | Garth Brooks[11] | Bill Gates | Deion Sanders | David Geffen | Jerry Jones | Christian Slater | Garry Shandling |
20Q | Shaquille O'Neal | -- | Halle Berry | Laurence Fishburne | Denis Leary | Fred Ward | Michael Moriarity | Dana Delany | David Caruso | Heather Locklear | Quentin Tarantino | Kelsey Grammer | |
1995[51] | Interview | Snoop Dogg[16] | |||||||||||
20Q | |||||||||||||
1996[52] | Interview | ||||||||||||
20Q | |||||||||||||
1997[53] | Interview | Whoopi Goldberg | Lawrence Schiller | Clint Eastwood | Vincent Bugliosi | Saul Bellow | Dennis Rodman | Anthony Edwards | Bill Maher | Christopher Walken | Tommy Hilfiger | Brett Favre | Robert Downey Jr. |
20Q | Mike Judge | Conan O'Brien | Michael Jordan | Vanessa Williams | Lucy Lawless | Julianna Margulies | Jon Lovitz | Norm Macdonald | Chris Farley | Téa Leoni | Chris Rock | ||
1998[54] | Interview | ||||||||||||
20Q | |||||||||||||
1999[55] | Interview | ||||||||||||
20Q |
2000-2009
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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2000 | Interview | Hugh Hefner | Jeff Bezos[56] | Jon Stewart | Rowland Evans, Robert Novak | Pete Rose | Trey Parker, Matt Stone | George Clooney | John Malkovich | Jennifer Lopez | Bob Costas | Ben Stiller | Drew Barrymore |
2001 | Interview | Gary Johnson | Vince McMahon | Bobby Knight | Metallica[11] | Tom Green | Charlie Sheen | Chris Matthews | Tim Burton | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Cast of The West Wing | The Coen Brothers | Will Smith |
2002 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2003 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2004 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2005 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2006 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2007 | Interview | T. Boone Pickens | Simon Cowell | Jeremy Piven | Bill Maher | Steve Nash | Matt Groening | Bruce Willis | Chris Tucker | Clive Owen | Keith Olbermann | Kane | Bill Richardson |
20Q | Ellen Pompeo | Bettie Page | Mariah Carey | Will Arnett | Fergie | Don Rickles | Danica Patrick | Paul Rudd | Jamie Pressly | Ali Larter | Matt Leinart | Joaquin Phoenix | |
2008 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2009 | Interview |
2010-2020
editJanuary | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | ||
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2010 | Interview | John Mayer[57] | |||||||||||
2011 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2012 | Interview | Stephen Colbert[58] | |||||||||||
2013 | Interview | Bernie Sanders[25] | |||||||||||
2014 | Interview | Ben Affleck | Nick Denton | Stan Lee | Tony Hsieh | Jonah Hill | James Spader | David Fincher | Joaquin Phoenix | ||||
20Q | Ty Burrell | Iggy Pop | Kate Mara | Kevin Hart | Frank Miller | Bob Corddry | Charlie Day | ||||||
2015 | Interview | Azealia Banks[11] | |||||||||||
2016 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2017 | Interview | ||||||||||||
2018 | Interview | Christie Hefner | John Krasinski | Cecile Richards | Kathy Griffin | Michael Shannon | Tucker Carlson | ||||||
20Q | Cillian Murphy | Jesse Plemons | Jim Jefferies | Lakeith Stanfield | Sofia Boutella | Charlie Cox | |||||||
2019 | Interview | Sam Harris | Seth Ambramson | Tarana Burke | Jeremy O. Harris | ||||||||
2020 | Interview | Christiane Amanpour | Jameela Jamil | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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