Stephen Colbert is spending this week in Iraq, and he's coming back with a souvenir: a shaved head. Yes, as Colbert, mock GOP pundit that he is, wanted to look like a soldier during his visit, there was only one way, according to the current Commanding General, Ray Odierno, Multi-National Force—Iraq (MNF-I) and President and kibitzer Barack Obama.
The shows are being taped the day before, and following Colbert's entrance onstage wearing a business suit made of Army camouflage, Commander-in-Chief Obama (his appearance was taped) ordered Gen. Odierno to give Colbert a buzz cut, and shaved his head was.
The show is being taped at a former palace of Saddam Hussein's. Colbert told the New York Times:
“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.
“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.”
The show is reportedly the first full-length non-news show filmed, edited and broadcast from a combat zone.
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