Tonight highlights the first of a week long of showings of The Colbert Report (both pronounced with a silent "t") live from Baghdad. The show airs all week at its regular scheduled time, 11:30pm pst here on the west coast, on Comedy Central. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it is a spin off of The Daily Show, a popular "fake" news show on Comedy Central, hosted by Jon Stewart. The host, Stephen Colbert, was initially a correspondent on The Daily Show from 1997-2005. Colbert has long stated his complete support for the troops and says that too much talk about the economy has been clouding the news, and taking away focus and attention on the troops still serving overseas.
There have been small excerpts and pictures that have already leaked for tonight's show (filmed, cut and edited earlier today) and it seems like it will be a good show. Pictures have surfaced of Colbert wearing a business suit and tie matching the Army camouflage uniform, and receiving a military style hair cut during the middle of the show. It's the little things like this that raise moral for the troops, signs of solidarity with them. Several of his monologue jokes that leaked were also moral lifting, although to some civilians it may not seem so, with Colbert stating ""It must be nice here, because I understand some of you keep coming back again and again and again" receiving a wave of laughter from the troops. Most people don't realize the "darker" humor that soldiers use to cope by finding things funny that the rest of the world likely wouldn't. Nothing vulgar or obscene, but things such as the previous joke, which was in regards to the stressful and sometimes multiple deployments that the military has had to deal with since war began in 2003.
I'm excited to watch all week and commend Stephen Colbert for his patriotism. Tonight's show will feature guest Gen. Ray Odierno , as well as pre-recorded messages from President Obama and Sen John McCain. Stay tuned...
There have been small excerpts and pictures that have already leaked for tonight's show (filmed, cut and edited earlier today) and it seems like it will be a good show. Pictures have surfaced of Colbert wearing a business suit and tie matching the Army camouflage uniform, and receiving a military style hair cut during the middle of the show. It's the little things like this that raise moral for the troops, signs of solidarity with them. Several of his monologue jokes that leaked were also moral lifting, although to some civilians it may not seem so, with Colbert stating ""It must be nice here, because I understand some of you keep coming back again and again and again" receiving a wave of laughter from the troops. Most people don't realize the "darker" humor that soldiers use to cope by finding things funny that the rest of the world likely wouldn't. Nothing vulgar or obscene, but things such as the previous joke, which was in regards to the stressful and sometimes multiple deployments that the military has had to deal with since war began in 2003.
I'm excited to watch all week and commend Stephen Colbert for his patriotism. Tonight's show will feature guest Gen. Ray Odierno , as well as pre-recorded messages from President Obama and Sen John McCain. Stay tuned...
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