>“Two weeks into it [The Jon Stewart Show], we do a bit: I thought it would be funny if we have Dave Attell, one of our writers at the time, dress up as Hitler and come out like he’s a guest on the show. Like, ‘Hey, everybody is wondering what happened to Hitler. I think you brought a clip!’ and it’s him at Nuremberg. We’re laughing our balls off because every idea you come up with… it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you think it’s hilarious because you’re sleep deprived.”
>When Stewart and Attell attempted the sketch in front of the show’s live audience, Stewart said, “Our first guest is very surprising. Nobody’s heard from him for many, many years. We are just so honored that he chose to do this show first. Ladies and gentlemen, Adolf Hitler!” Then Attell — who, like Stewart, is Jewish — came out in full Nazi regalia, doing the Sieg Heil salute and holding a bagel with schmear, saying, “I don’t know what I was so afraid of, these are delicious!”
>“What I didn’t realize is that the crowd would rightfully boo the shit out of him. It’s Hitler! The whole thing devolves. I see in the control room, there’s an immediate break. The stage manager comes out and goes, ‘Uh, they need to see you in the control room.’ The phone rings. It’s just one guy, and he goes, ‘That will never see the light of day. That will never air. You will never do that again.”
>”The blow of the story is they canceled the show pretty soon thereafter.”
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Ohh so his whole episode on the Larry Sanders Show was based on this I’m assuming?
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>“Two weeks into it [The Jon Stewart Show], we do a bit: I thought it would be funny if we have Dave Attell, one of our writers at the time, dress up as Hitler and come out like he’s a guest on the show. Like, ‘Hey, everybody is wondering what happened to Hitler. I think you brought a clip!’ and it’s him at Nuremberg. We’re laughing our balls off because every idea you come up with… it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you think it’s hilarious because you’re sleep deprived.”
>When Stewart and Attell attempted the sketch in front of the show’s live audience, Stewart said, “Our first guest is very surprising. Nobody’s heard from him for many, many years. We are just so honored that he chose to do this show first. Ladies and gentlemen, Adolf Hitler!” Then Attell — who, like Stewart, is Jewish — came out in full Nazi regalia, doing the Sieg Heil salute and holding a bagel with schmear, saying, “I don’t know what I was so afraid of, these are delicious!”
>“What I didn’t realize is that the crowd would rightfully boo the shit out of him. It’s Hitler! The whole thing devolves. I see in the control room, there’s an immediate break. The stage manager comes out and goes, ‘Uh, they need to see you in the control room.’ The phone rings. It’s just one guy, and he goes, ‘That will never see the light of day. That will never air. You will never do that again.”
>”The blow of the story is they canceled the show pretty soon thereafter.”
Ohh so his whole episode on the Larry Sanders Show was based on this I’m assuming?