Deleted scene from Thrill of the Chase.
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Tucker Foley, mayoral intern, was on the phone again. He took down a message, the sixth in the past hour. As soon as the world heard Vlad was mayor of Amity Park again all these newshounds suddenly felt it was their right to start demanding interviews. Sure Tucker had this script Vlad had handed him his first week but it wasn't working anymore. "Mr. Masters has no comment and regrets to inform you that he will not be giving interviews on this matter" just wasn't cutting it. They'd all heard it. Heck, some of them had heard it four or five times now.
The door to the office opened. Tucker sighed in relief that Vlad was back. And that was the weirdest feeling, being relieved that the fruitloop was here to butt into his business. Almost as weird as realizing he was okay with the stupid red tie Vlad made him wear. The same color red as Vlad's own ascot...
Tucker handed Vlad his stack of messages. "Reporters won't take no for an answer anymore," he said.
Vlad sighed and flipped through the pages. "I knew this was coming," he grumbled. "Don't these rats have the decency to grant a man his privacy? Ugh, the first thing I would have put a stop to..." Vlad's rant fell into a mumble about how he would have run the world so much better than this and predatory news reporting would have been the first thing to go. Tucker was used to these rants. Every day something else became the 'first thing I would have dealt with' from potholes to news reporters to the price of ice cream. He'd learned to tune them out as easily as the blathering of Danny's parents.
"Foley!" Vlad snapped.
Tucker jumped in his chair and tried to look like he wasn't expecting to be zapped. It wouldn't be the first time...
"You've stuck to the script, correct?" Vlad asked, arms crossed as he glared disdainfully at his intern.
Tucker nodded. "To the letter," he said.
"Then it's time to change it. Inform callers that I will be granting a total of one interview. And that it's not with them."
"Who should I say you're interviewing with?" Tucker asked.
Vlad made an 'ugh' sound and stalked off to his own office. "I don't care, just someone." He slammed the door and Tucker could hear the sound system being fired up. Soon weird singing filtered out from underneath the door.
The phone rang. Tucker cringed. It was another reporter. 'Just someone,' Vlad had said. Three dozen news shows on his mind and Tucker couldn't think of a single one of their names. So he blurted out the first news-based name that popped into his mind.
Which is how Vladimir Masters, mayor of Amity Park, CEO of VladCo, self-professed evil villain, ended up on The Daily Show.