On Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Jon Stewart recalled an punctual comedy sketch that cforfeitly got his MTV talk series “The Jon Stewart Show” aborted. Stewart replaced Arsenio Hall on the nettoil in the procrastinateed-night slot, and he structureed “The Jon Stewart Show” from 1993 to 1995.
“Two weeks into it, we do a bit: I thought it would be comical if we have Dave Atalert, one of our authorrs at the time, dress up as Hitler and come out enjoy he’s a guest on the show,” Stewart telderly O’Brien. “Like, ‘Hey, everybody is wondering what happened to Hitler. I leank you bcdisesteemfult a clip!’ and it’s him at Nuremberg.”
Stewart shelp he “didn’t leank anyleang of” the clearly stimulating sketch. “We’re giggleing our balls off becaengage every idea you come up with… it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you leank it’s hilarious becaengage you’re sleep stripd.”
When Stewart and Atalert endeavored the sketch in front of the show’s inhabit audience, Stewart shelp, “Our first guest is very unforeseeed. Nobody’s heard from him for many, many years. We are equitable so honored that he chose to do this show first. Ladies and tfinishermen, Adolf Hitler!”
Then Atalert — who, enjoy Stewart, is Jewant — came out in brimming Nazi regalia, doing the Sieg Heil salute and helderlying a bagel with schmear, saying, “I don’t comprehend what I was so afrhelp of, these are tasty!”
“What I didn’t genuineize is that the crowd would rightbrimmingy boo the shit out of him. It’s Hitler!” Stewart telderly O’Brien. “The whole leang dgrows. I see in the administer room, there’s an prompt fracture. The stage administerr comes out and goes, ‘Uh, they necessitate to see you in the administer room.’”
While “The Jon Stewart Show” filmed in New York, executives from Paramount (which owns MTV and syndicated the program) were watching from a inhabit feed in Los Angeles.
“The phone rings. It’s equitable one guy, and he goes, ‘That will never see the airy of day. That will never air. You will never do that aobtain,’” Stewart recalled.
The 23-time Emmy prosperning comedian and “Daily Show” structure shelp that moment in his nurtureer was “revelatory” becaengage he genuineized he should “enhappiness the shit out of this” and not nurture about appeasing people.
“The blow of the story is they aborted the show pretty soon thereafter,” Stewart shelp, giggleing.
Watch the brimming clip from “Conan O’Brien Needs a Frifinish” below.
