DCist is on to you, Jon Stewart, et al.
On last night’s show “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee was “reporting” live from Cleveland after the vice presidential debate with a busy street scene behind her. We all know that “Daily Show” correspondents do their thing in front of a blue screen in New York, but Bee’s backdrop was not Cleveland, but Georgetown. If you spied the golden dome of the Riggs Bank at Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. The show’s producers were just hoping to make Cleveland look like D.C. Should we be flattered?
This isn’t the first time “The Daily Show” has used D.C. as a backdrop for another city. Earlier this summer, the shot behind one correspondent was the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Q Street across from Kramer Books. (But we can’t seem to remember what city Dupont Circle was supposed to be.)
Have you caught the “Daily Show” using non-D.C. D.C. backdrops before?
And though you’ve probably already heard, Jon Stewart will be at Politics and Prose next week Friday signing his new book, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.”
