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 [...]
How’d they do that? Technical challenges to ‘The Colbert Report’ in Iraq
August 12, 2009 By
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 [...]
Stephen Colbert reflects on Iraq
July 20, 2009 By
This is a sweet little item from Variety: Stephen Colbert Host, ‘The Colbert Report’ By MICHAEL VENTRE . . . [W]hat Colbert remembers most from his week of shows inside the combat zone — titled “Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando” — was the connection he made with that live audience that had little to do [...]
VIDEO: Operation Iraqi Stephen rehearsal clips
July 8, 2009 By
Greetings and salutations, kids. We all know that break weeks are tough, but I’m a little bit grateful for this one, because it bored me enough to send me searching “the internets” a bit more thoroughly than I otherwise might have. And, lo and behold, I stumbled across Flickr user robert birkenes‘ photostream, which includes [...]
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama – behind the scenes
June 18, 2009 By
No way — the White House has posted the footage of the taping for Barack Obama’s “Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando” cameo on facebook! I can’t embed it here, but click on this link to go to the video. Awesome! Huge hat tip to Roland! EDIT: Thanks to all the tipsters who sent us a [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
VIDEO: B-roll of Stephen Colbert in Iraq from the Multi-National Corps
June 11, 2009 By
I love it! The DVIDS site that posted the article I just blogged also included a bunch of videos of Stephen with the troops, from his arrival and taking pictures and signing autographs with the troops, to distributing care packages and yet more mingling with the troops, to B-roll from an actual taping. Here’s a [...]