[lbo-talk] AP: " 'Daily Show' to air reports from Iraq"

[B.]

[I can't see this as doing anything but ruining the
Daily Show's cred -- whatever it has -- and co-opting
them. Embedded humor, nice. Like "Henry Rollins at Abu
Ghraib" or Al Franken, also at Abu Ghraib, a real hip
spot to be at for awhile there it seems like,
sickeningly enough. Both Rollins and Franken came back
with really fencewalking-y type sentiments about how
"soldiers are just caught in the middle of all this,"
etc. Was also disappointed when Joan Jett did a USO
show in Afghanistan. -B.]

'Daily Show' to air reports from Iraq

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
Fri Aug 17, 9:08 PM ET

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," whose phony news
coverage has long included phony "remotes" from
war-torn Iraq, will be reporting from Iraq for real
next week.

Giving its green screen a temporary rest, the Comedy
Central series will air "Operation Silent Thunder:
`The Daily Show' in Iraq," several onsite dispatches
filed by Senior War Correspondent Rob Riggle.

Riggle will provide what the network calls "in-depth
coverage and insights from the front lines." Scheduled
to be back in New York this weekend, he begins his
reports as soon as Monday. ("The Daily Show" airs
Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. EDT.)

While in Iraq, Riggle performed for U.S. troops with
fellow comedians Horatio Sanz, Rob Huebel and Paul
Scheer as part of an entertainment tour titled
"Operation Feel the Heat."

Besides "The Daily Show," Riggle's credits include
"Saturday Night Live," "The Office" and "Arrested
Development." A major in the U.S. Marine Corps
Reserve, he served in Liberia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

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