"Madman with cat cannon" mentioned in the Daily Show
I recently heard Trevor Noah of the Daily Show say:
Not to be confused with the D.C. Madman, the eccentric 19th century scientist known for attacking the White House with a cat-cannon
Who exactly is he referring to? I thought this might be a comics character, so I posed this question on scifi.SE, but the folks there assured me it's not.
Best Answer
It was a joke.
The joke involves a fictional attack on the White House.
The White House is in Washington, D.C.
The fictional attacker is known as the D.C. Madman because he's insane and he is famous because of his cat-cannon-and-Presidential-mansion-related actions in Washington, D.C.
This isn't a real story, or a real character, except insofar as Trevor Noah told a story about said character, in the form of the aforementioned joke.
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