The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (lost banned "Leisure World, California" segment of late-night talk show; date unknown): Difference between revisions
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Promo photo for the show.
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The Daily Show is an American late night talk and news satire program that was created by Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead and premiered on Comedy Central on July 22, 1996. The show was hosted by former SportsCenter anchor Craig Kilborn for its first couple of years before his replacement by comedian Jon Stewart in 1999. The show is currently hosted by comedian Trevor Noah, who replaced Stewart in 2015. The show parodies conventional newscasts with comedic monologues about the day's headlines, mockumentary-style on-location reports, in-studio segments, and debates among the show's regular correspondents. The host also interviews special guests who will often promote their current projects or perform. While there are no know unreleased segments from the show, one is unreleased due to a legal settlement.
Banned Segment
Stephen Colbert (the show's correspondents from 1997 to 2005) said during a Daily Show panel at the Paley Center For Media in 2008, that they filmed a segment at the Leisure World retirement community in Seal Beach, California and was about how they wanted to become a town and the town's around the area were afraid that they were gonna be "absorbed" because both were unincorporated and the community voted to become a town. Interviews with the people in the community were also conducted with Vodner was playing and goose stepping marching under the people. One interview with the community's leader Bert Hack ended up going wrong. Hack got offended that the Daily Show team compared him to Hitler and while being interviewed by Colbert, he and Colbert imitated the Nazi salute when describing the community. What the Daily Show crew didn't know was that Hack was a retired lawyer and in the lawsuit that was filed, the crew claimed they were from CNN and not Comedy Central (as they were not allowed to say they were from Comedy Central). The suit got thrown out and a settlement was reached that the segment would not be shown.
Availability
No other information is known about the segment like who else were interviewed or when the segment was filmed. It's likely Comedy Central still have the segment in their archives, but due to the lawsuit and pending settlement, it's unlikely the segment will ever be released.