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Jon Stewart Interviewed ‘Adolf Hitler’ in Axed Bit on His MTV Talk Show, Got Call From Paramount: ‘That Will Never See the Light of Day’
Jon Stewart recalled an axed bit on his MTV talk series in which he interviewed Dave Attell dressed as Adolf Hitler. Paramount shut the sketch down.
“Two weeks into it, 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,” Stewart told O’Brien. 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!” While “The Jon Stewart Show” filmed in New York, executives from Paramount (which owns MTV and syndicated the program) were watching from a live feed in Los Angeles.
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