The TV Watch - Stephen Colbert as a New Mr. U.S.O., Hold the Cheesecake - Review - NYTimes.com

The TV Watch - Stephen Colbert as a New Mr. U.S.O., Hold the Cheesecake - Review - NYTimes.com: "In Baghdad this past week the host of “The Colbert Report” was so imbued with the spirit of Bob Hope that he actually twirled a golf club — a Hope trademark — as he told jokes to troops in a former palace of Saddam Hussein. Stephen Colbert, the host, described Iraq as “so nice, we invaded it twice.” Even a taped sketch on Tuesday, in which Mr. Colbert debated himself on the issue of gay soldiers, wasn’t much of a departure from Hope’s old stand-up routines in places like Long Binh and Cam Ranh Bay."