Comments on: Stephen Colbert is FaceSTRONG

By: laughing at nothing

laughing at nothing — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:12:55 +0000

I once hit myself in the middle of the forehead bouncing a steel pogo stick up and down. When you were hit with the iron bar, did you end up with a bruise on your forehead in addition to the black eyes?

The location of the injury indicates that the forehead could have been involved. Any blow had to have been fairly even distributed because no obvious swelling or bruising of the forehead was evident. (Even with makeup, the closeup zoom would have revealled it.)

Who knows? We hope Colbert injuries don’t pull a hat-trick this year.

I remember that day because I like Summer Solstice, it is close to my birthday. I was listening to EWF’s “That’s the Way of the World.” The injury happened on water. What can I say?

By: Culf

Culf — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:35:15 +0000

Those sort of bruises he had under his eyes usually appear when you’ve taken a blow to the forehead and the blood from the broken vessels beneath the skin seeps down under the eyes to form bruises there. No actual injury to the eyes is necessary. I’ve had bruises under my eyes almost exactly like that after accidentally getting hit in the head by an iron bar while sunbathing. (Don’t even ask.)
Maybe that was what Stephen was doing?

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:32:02 +0000

My first guess was he did it filming a movie and was told to keep it under wraps… So I imdb’d it and the only movie he has coming out us an animated movie… Still curious though… Get well!

By: asktunes

asktunes — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:16:40 +0000

I had bruises like that under both eyes when I broke my noise….by walking into a sliding glass window…while high on coke…sigh. That was a long time ago…really.
Hope you heal fast, Stephen! Happy Carolina Day!

By: tiger

tiger — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:16:19 +0000

noses are tender appendages! I hope he’s healed up and pain free pronto!

By: Colorado

Colorado — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:17:45 +0000

I just saw the show on rerun. Either it was, as he said, a stumble or a fall or a very simple accident that doesn’t offer any comic outle.

Or Laura Bush caught him in the elevator.

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:14:46 +0000

That looks like the sort of injury one receives when one is whacked in the face really hard. I’m guessing he either fell or got hit with something. Ouch! It makes my face hurt to look at it. And it just HAD to be the face! The beautiful face!

Ha ha! My reCaptcha is Ger workrooms. Other colboarders will find that as funny as I do, I’m sure.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:42:28 +0000

Yikes. Did he mention it on air, or what?

(I don’t have access to the shows at the moment, unfortunately.)

By: TraceyUK

TraceyUK — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:57 +0000

One of those breathe-easy strips…?

http://breatheright.co.uk/

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:22:05 +0000

I totally agree. Let’s get that On Notice board out again! Get well soon, Stephen!