The stories are coming fast and furious, and we’re going to do our best to keep up with them all.
First, the USO has posted photos of Stephen with the troops (h/t Roland). Check out the gallery here.
When you’ve had your fill of them, here’s a nice bit from the Britain’s TimesOnline:
Colbert does Baghdad
June 08, 2009Saddam would have had a fit. Echoing through the vast marble entrance chamber of his Al Faw palace came the Star Spangled Banner, sung in harmony by Stephen Colbert – of Daily Show and Colbert Report fame – and Sergeant Adrienn Falk. They held the last note as long as they could before the crowd went wild, light thrown from a chandelier the size of Wisconsin playing over three hundred or so crew-cut heads.
Comedian and presenter Colbert was in Baghdad last night to entertain the troops at Camp Victory, the base by Baghdad airport which includes a vast Saddam-built palace complex and lake. The first of four shows was filmed in front of an audience drawn from the largely American Multinational Forces in Iraq, in an evening which featured everything from stars-and-stripes sandbags to faintly off-colour weapons of mass destruction jokes. The audience generally acknowledged it to have reached the zenith of humour possible in an ex-dictator’s palace in roasting midsummer in a city where the air is full of sand.
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So cool. So, so cool!
GMA colbert clip:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7781951
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Obama, McCain and Sarah Palin to make an appearance?! Now, that’s really something…
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The GMA video is up online:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7781951
They even mentioned him on their twitter:
http://twitter.com/gma
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I am so giddy with excitement for tonight’s episode!!
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I feel like we are on a continuous update cycle and I am LOVING it! So much Stephen to hold us over until tonight! And the pics are amazing–thanks everybody!
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At first I thought.. oh nooooo.. not the hair!!! not the hair!!! not the hair!!!
But y’all are right.. from the vid of the graduating high school class… o m g so hot :)
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OH my gosh, agreed. At first I was so freaked out, but it seriously looks SOO GOOD.
recaptcha: NIXON member. lol
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I just adore the cammo suit! Haha! I can’t wait to see the show tonight — it’s like Christmas in June!
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this is my favorite bit from that article:
“‘It was a very historic event,’ said audience member First Lieutenant Stephen Clements afterwards, ‘to watch a sitting US President order a four star general to shave the head of a TV anchor. History was made tonight.’”
I appreciate it being all summed up like that for me!
(also maybe that article would be of more interest to the Times readers if TCR were shown in that country. oh well.)
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Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News mentioned Stephen’s USO shows and his haircut by Gen. Odierno, they even had a pix of it. Nice going BriWi!
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