Summary

In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, and a palate for the obsurd -- and these one-of-a-kind forays into his hilarious world will expose you to all its wickedly naked truths. He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. And as of January 11, 1999, you can enjoy the intelligence and self-deprecating charm he brings to contemporary comedy on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."In his first book, he translates that unique talent to the page, with humorous forays into a vast array of subjects: fashion, urban life, fast cars, cocktail culture, modern Jewishness, politics, and dating.A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. And as of January 11, 1999, you can enjoy the intelligence and self-deprecating charm he brings to contemporary comedy on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."In his first book, he translates that unique talent to the page, with humorous forays into a vast array of subjects: fashion, urban life, fast cars, cocktail culture, modern Jewishness, politics, and dating.A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.

Breakfast at Kennedy's	p. 1
A Very Hanson Christmas, 1996-1999	p. 11
Lack of Power: the Ford Tapes	p. 19
Martha Stewart's Vagina	p. 31
The New Judaism	p. 39
Pen Pals	p. 51
Local News	p. 61
The Last Supper, or the Dead Waiter	p. 65
Da Vinci: the Lost Notebook	p. 73
The Cult	p. 81
Five Under Five	p. 93
The Recipe	p. 99
The Devil and William Gates	p. 107
Vincent and Theo on AOL	p. 117
Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold	p. 129
Adolf Hitler: the Larry King Interview	p. 139
Lenny Bruce: the Making of a Sitcom	p. 151
Microsoft Word '98 Suggested Spelling and Usage	p. 161
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Naked Pictures of Famous PeopleADOLF HITLER: THE LARRY KING INTERVIEW

ONE OF THE beautiful aspects of our culture is the capacity we have to forgive, especially those in the public eye. There is little a tearful mea culpa on "60 Minutes" or a tell-all confession in the pages of People magazine won't rectify. This grand compassion was put to the ultimate challenge when in the fall of 1999 an astonished world watched as a historical figure long thought to have died in World War II resurfaced. This disgraced dictator, swayed by a beautifully arranged fruit basket and handwritten note, went on CNN's "Larry King Live." The Hitler interview, as it became known, aired on October 23, 1999, at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. That night King's ratings tripled, allowing his show to narrowly defeat all other cable entries airing in that time slot, as well as the WB sitcom Whassup Skinnybones Jones, the story of a skinny black man living among fatter, funnier black men. The following is an uncensored transcript of that historic interview.

KING: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you perhaps the most controversial show in the history of "Larry King Live." He began his career as president of the fledgling National Socialist party, the Nazi party, in Germany. After a failed coup, some prison time and a bestselling book, he re-established himself in the German hierarchy, first as chancellor... then as Fuhrer. The next ten years under his watch saw Germany's return to power, shame at the Munich Olympics, a failed marriage and finally, one helluva World War complete with what was thought to be a cowardly demise by his own hand. Tonight, risen from the proverbial dead, we welcome Adolf Hitler.

HITLER: (biting into a bagel) First of all, Larry, I don't know what I was so afraid of. These are delicious!!!

KING: Well, Chancellor Hitler, I have--

HITLER: Please call me Adolf.

KING: Adolf. First of all, I have to say... quite frankly, we were very reluctant to have you on.

HITLER: I can't say I blame you for that. I mean, you hear the name Hitler...

KING: Well, in the end we decided this show is about newsmakers. That's been my mottothrough forty years of broadcasting and critics be damned, I'm not about to stop now.

HITLER: I don't know what you're talking about.

KING: What do you say to all the people out there, the people who view you as a demon, the perpetrator of the most vicious--

HITLER: Guilty as charged, Larry. Look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know... I was a very angry guy.

KING: And this ... new Hitler?

HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the Jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will. Some days I'll fish, maybe hit the mall for an Orange Julius. The other day I spent seven hours in the park watching ants cart off part of a sandwich. Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything, it's very freeing.

KING: Why did you do it?

HITLER: Whooo boy. The $64,000 question. I don't know... I wasn't a happy kid. I mean, I'm not trying to make excuses, but you go through high school with one testicle and the nickname Shitler... I'm sorry, they can bleep that, right?

KING: It's fine.

HITLER: After a while you get sick of it. One day you just snap. It started out as the typical "Someday you guys will be sorry," and then...I don't know. It just got away from me.

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