A Farewell from the Land Down Under.

TV Colbert in Iraq

G’day Zoners and welcome to my final goodbye post here at NFZ.

Before I get on to sharing a few of my favourite clips with you, I thought I would first share with you how I first became a fan of Stephen and “The Colbert Report”, and how I first managed to come across “No Fact Zone”.

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Stephen Colbert on shaking hands with service members in Iraq

The article talks about why Stephen Colbert took the “Colbert Report” to Iraq, and some of his more memorable experiences there.

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Congratulations to “The Daily Show” (again)!

Stephen Colbert weeping at boot camp

I know a lot of us were really thinking it would be Stephen’s year this time around, and I’ll confess to some (personal) soreness of the heart when I consider that The Colbert Report has been passed over again. But I’ll extend a sincere congratulations to Jon and his crew again, since they’ve succeeded brilliantly at the incredibly difficult task of maintaining the public’s attention and love. (And I very much include myself in that category.) Well done, gang.

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YOU TUBE: Videos of Stephen Colbert in Iraq

YouTube member DavidKanevsky1980 just posted some amazing videos of Stephen Colbert in Iraq that I simply must share. Also watching these videos, and watching Stephen interact with the troops reminds me yet again that if he doesn’t win an Emmy this year for his work there, I’m personally going to go and kick the shins [...]

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MSNBC highlights Stephen Colbert in USO story

We’ve heard several times since his return that taping The Colbert Report‘s Iraq episodes left a huge impression on Stephen. It’s not so surprising, when we consider all of his work supporting the troops before his visit and how patriotic he is (in the best sense of the word), and it was clear in watching [...]

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VIDEO: Stephen Colbert talks Iraq, Obama and Olympics on Letterman

CrooksandLiars.com is first out of the gate with the full video of Stephen’s appearance on Late Show with David Letterman last night. The interview jumped around quite a bit (and I felt like CBS had the longest commercial breaks ever), but it’s always nice to see Stephen out of character and supporting his various causes. [...]

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Outtakes: More care in those packages from Stephen Colbert and Tom Hanks

Heh, the good folks over at ColbertNation are really helping us out by continuing to post outtakes from the Operation Iraqi Stephen shows. I really kind of love these. Check out Stephen Colbert and Tom Hanks in some more of the clips we missed out on during the original airings: Outtake – Tom Hanks Pt. [...]

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Outtakes: Stephen Colbert does Basic Training

ColbertNation has posted a few more outtakes from Operation Iraqi Stephen (yay!). They’ve posted three brief clips, but this one is my favorite: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

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Outtake: Stephen Colbert flying with the Thunderbirds

Interesting! Just days after we hear Stephen Colbert telling Pete Dominick that he has “yet to feel like it was a good idea to have done that [flown with the Thunderbirds],” ColbertNation posts a bit of unseen footage from Stephen’s flight with the Thunderbirds Thundercats: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

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How’d they do that? Technical challenges to ‘The Colbert Report’ in Iraq

While doing my usual morning skim of Colbert-related news, I clicked on this story thinking it would just be another summary of the impressive “Operation Iraqi Stephen” shows. Boy, was I wrong! This article goes into great detail over the technical and production aspects of the shows and even managed to give me, a complete [...]

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