A little round up of what’s been in the blogs, large and small, about Stephen Colbert taking his show on the road in Iraq this past week. There have been a lot of posts about ‘Operation Iraqi Stephen’ this week, but I’m only going to mention those with new info or an interesting observation and [...]
Forbes frets over aging ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ demographic
June 12, 2009 By
In some rare, non-Iraq show news this week, we have this latest article from Forbes: The Graying Of Comedy Central Dorothy Pomerantz, 06.12.09, 04:15 PM EDT The average age of ”The Daily Show” viewers is up five years. That could mean advertising trouble for parent Viacom. LOS ANGELES — On their late night talk shows, [...]
‘News Tribune’ covers its own: Grippe, Jacoby on ‘The Colbert Report’
June 12, 2009 By
The News Tribune has a nice little write-up of Stephen’s most recent shows from Iraq, in which he interviewed two Washingtonians, CSM Grippe and Lt. Gen. Jacoby. From *FOB Tacoma: I Corps’ Grippe, Jacoby ham it up on ‘Colbert Report’ Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 11:58:20 am . . . Welcome [...]
To the host, staff, and audience of ‘The Colbert Report’: HOOAH!
June 12, 2009 By
I’m feeling so proud of everyone involved with this week of shows: Stephen Colbert, the writers, the crew, all the past, present, and future(?) POTUSes and candidates, the USO, and – most of all – the officers and enlisted men of the MNF-Iraq. ‘Operation Iraqi Stephen’ was certainly successful at bringing attention back to Iraq [...]
Episode 5079 (6/11/2009)
June 11, 2009 By
EPISODE NUMBER: 5079 (June 11, 2009) GUESTS: George W. Bush, Cmd. Sgt. Frank A. Grippe SEGMENTS: Stephen Colbert’s fallback position – Thunderbirds, Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger VIDEOS: Thursday, June 11, 2009 Okay, kiddos, I think you all know that I have a severe aversion to regurgitation. First Stephen hurls in a [...]
Sergeant First Class Demetrius Chantz talks about “training” Pvt. Stephen Colbert
June 11, 2009 By
Ha ha! Oh, this is impressive; sounds like Sergeant First Class Demetrius Chantz, who appeared in those hysterical videos of Stephen at Basic Training, managed to keep his cool throughout most of the taping session. But Stephen got even him to break in the end — hee! From WIS 10: Ft. Jackson drill sergeant attempts [...]
Army Sgt. from New York gets front row seat at ‘The Colbert Report’ in Iraq
June 11, 2009 By
Talk about being in the right place at the right time; Army Sgt. First Class Benari Poulten is a stand up comedian in New York in his civilian life, but he happened to be on deployment to Iraq when “Operation Stephen: Going Commando” came to town, setting him up to spend his day hanging out [...]
‘Going Commando’ maintains a rise in ratings
June 11, 2009 By
Yesterday, Ms Interpreted blogged about ratings for the first night of ‘The Colbert Report’ broadcasting from Baghdad. The New York Times is reporting that the show was still ‘ratings strong’ Tuesday night. A Big Crowd for Colbert’s Baghdad Reports By Bill Carter Stephen Colbert continued to score strong ratings with his second night of programs [...]
Practice makes perfect: Gen. Odierno rehearses Stephen’s buzz cut
June 11, 2009 By
Ha! You know that footage of General Odierno and Stephen Colbert appearing to rehearse the big head shaving moment we saw before? Some people commented that they wished they could see more, and the MNC-I has obliged. From MNCIraq: “Stephen Colbert’s Premature Clipping” Tip of the hat to Roland!
NPR covers Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando
June 11, 2009 By
Nancy Pelosi Radio’s ‘Morning Edition’ covered Stephen in Iraq this morning. Here’s a bit of the transcript of the report: ‘Colbert Report’ Broadcasts From Iraq All week soldiers have been crowding into an old palace hall on a U.S. military base near Baghdad airport to catch the Colbert Report. Most of the troops know by [...]