The Colbert Report as gone to Iraa on a USO tour called "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando". They're going to tape and perform the show in front of the troops. It's the first TV show in USO history to produce a week of shows in a combat zone.
Mr. Colbert himself does not seem to be fazed by this seemingly tricky balancing act. Neither he nor his character knows what it’s like to be a soldier, he said in an interview here Saturday night. Only, his character thinks he knows.
“Think of certain reporters who lose themselves in their own self-importance and accidentally give away troop movements and get kicked out of the country,” he said in a not particularly oblique reference to Geraldo Rivera.
“The best way I can show gratitude is to do my show the best I can and make them laugh,” he said. “If I tried to tailor my material to people in the Army, there’d be two things. A, that’d be patronizing. And B, I’d be wrong.”
One can only imagine what's to be expected from him, but you can be sure it'll be something good. What can expect though is to see him with a shaven head. President Obama ordered Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert’s it!
"Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" will air on COMEDY CENTRAL Monday, June 8 through Thursday, June 11 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.
