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Hemi-Cuda · 06-09-2009, 01:03 AM

wow, when he kept going on about spending a week in some unnamed country in the Persian Gulf, i figured it would be Saudi Arabia or one of the other relatively safe countries with an American military presence. but to put him in the middle of Baghdad in one of Saddam's old palaces is awesome. fantastic first episode too, the boot camp, Obama's appearance, the haircut, all great

this should be a fun week to watch

J pold · 06-09-2009, 01:16 AM

Damn I missed it!

iggypop · 06-09-2009, 01:24 AM

Ha ya I can't believe he actually went through with the hair. Obama sealed the deal. Great show. What a way for him to start the week.

Hemi-Cuda · 06-09-2009, 01:39 AM

i like other late night hosts like Conan and Stewart, but nobody can touch Colbert for his ballsy insanity. from hijacking an election with Doritos, to getting countless things named after himself (including a space capsule), and now broadcasting from an active warzone, he never fails to entertain. i almost wish that he would move to a network just so he could become even bigger, but i don't want to lose the "raw and uncut" feeling of his show that he gets with being on Comedy Central

sureLoss · 06-09-2009, 08:46 AM

Canadians can watch the episode here:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the...09/#clip180807

Bertuzzied · 06-09-2009, 08:49 AM

I deleted the dailyshow and colbert report off my pvr series recordings right after the election. It was getting pretty boring. I guess i'll add the colbert report back for a week.

Does anyone else find the correspondents on the daily show horrible? Just not very funny.

Ozy_Flame · 06-09-2009, 09:09 AM

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Does anyone else find the correspondents on the daily show horrible? Just not very funny.

It very much used to be when it was Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert.

Steven vs. Stephen was one of my favorite skits.

Sainters7 · 06-09-2009, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

It very much used to be when it was Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert.

Steven vs. Stephen was one of my favorite skits.

And Ed Helms and Rob Courdry(sp), they were classics. That Steven vs. Stephen bit was hilarious. Doesn't he do them still a lil on Colbert Report sometimes? I think they're called Worthy Advisary or something like that. I used to love Colbert but he's gotten on my nerves lately, I hate how he talks through his guests all the time(I know its his schtick, I still don't like it). I had no idea he was in Iraq though, I'm gonna have to check that out!

atb · 06-09-2009, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

It very much used to be when it was Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert.

Steven vs. Stephen was one of my favorite skits.

Haha Even Stevphen was hilarious, especially the episode of responsible drinking

http://vodpod.com/watch/245863-daily...sible-drinking

Hemi-Cuda · 06-11-2009, 11:46 PM

well this week was the most fun i've had watching his show, he did a great job in his Iraq stint and it's nice that he got the troops some exposure after being ignored in the media for the economic crap. loved when he flew in the fighter jet, "I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the... HOLY SH*T!"

also, according to the NY Times, he made history

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Into this comes Mr. Colbert. He is taping four episodes of “The Colbert Report,” the Comedy Central show featuring his egotistical, fake-macho, nationalist blowhard alter ego, in Baghdad this week. It’s the first time in the history of the U.S.O. that a full-length nonnews show has been filmed, edited and broadcast from a combat zone.

after this week, my belief is only further confirmed that Colbert is the most original and funniest guy on late night

Hack&Lube · 06-12-2009, 12:13 AM

I find Jason Jones from the Daily Show actually being sent to Tehran (no silly bluescreen backdrop) and reporting quietly into his mike "yes, yes, he is saying that he hates the jews" while standing only a few meters from the actual Ahmadinejad to be even more crazy. I was on the edge of my seat.

Hack&Lube · 06-12-2009, 12:35 AM

Wow, Colbert just made a Thundercats joke. Geez, really pandering to the 80s generation aren't we.

Hemi-Cuda · 06-12-2009, 03:35 AM

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Wow, Colbert just made a Thundercats joke. Geez, really pandering to the 80s generation aren't we.

that's half of Conan's bits, though still not nearly as bad as Family Guy

Crispy's Critter · 06-13-2009, 09:41 AM

I was fine with it until his guest thursday night, the obnoxious major general or whatever the hell he was. Going on and on about how the US military is the best in the world because they only take the top 5 percentile of US citizens, and then another 2% fail out, so they are the top 3% of americans or whatever. I just tuned him out, then shut it off. Other than that it wasn't bad all week, and the part where he was in the jet had me laughing pretty hard, especially when he held up the two barf bags

RW99 · 06-13-2009, 12:57 PM

That's weird. I thought there's been a lot of story in the last couple of years how recruiters had to lower their standards to keep the numbers up.

Crispy's Critter · 06-13-2009, 02:24 PM

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That's weird. I thought there's been a lot of story in the last couple of years how recruiters had to lower their standards to keep the numbers up.

yep, that's why I tuned him out.i don't have the link to the study, but I read a study done about 6 months ago that showed that something like 40% of US military recruits are high school dropouts. hard to believe they would be in the 'top 5 percentile of US citizens' (paraphrasing)

He was clearly just pandering to the crowd, and for some reason it really annoyed me

onetwo_threefour · 06-13-2009, 06:23 PM

I imagine by his definition that if you are in the military you are automatically among the top 5% of citizens. Ergo, they only take the from the top 5%. Sophistry at its finest.