In Iraq, Colbert Does His Shtick for the Troops
New York Times, June 8, 2009
By Campbell Robertson
Steven Colbert is taping four episodes of The Colbert Report, the Comedy Central show featuring his egotistical, fake-macho, nationalist blowhard alter ego, in Baghdad. It's the first time in the history of the U.S.O. that a full-length non-news show has been filmed, edited and broadcast from a combat zone.
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