Another Visitor to Lake Placid
On the weekend just before our visit, Stephen Colbert from Comedy Cetral’s “Colbert Report” paid a visit to Lake Placid.
With a swarm of cameramen, producers, assistants, fans, athletes, event staff and curiosity-seekers in tow, comedian Stephen Colbert held forth at Mount Van Hoevenberg Sunday afternoon, filming a segment in which Colbert tried in vain to make the Olympic bobsled team.
As you can see above, he also made a skeleton luge run down the track (which aired on his show last night). It was neat to see all the footage on TV considering we were Just There.
The Colbert Nation has been active with the 2010 Olympics. They are now official sponsors of the financially-strapped U.S. speed skating team, and the Colbert Nation logo will adorn their uniforms. Later, Stephen started a letter campaign to demand the Canadian Olympic committee give the American speed skating team equal time to practice on their oval. The campaign was successful, and Stephen was even offered a job as an official ombudsman of the events, and last night on TV he accepted the job.
From his bid for a presidential run in 2008 (on BOTH party tickets), to his amazing roasting of then-President George W Bush, and now this Olympic activity… I am just always amazed at the proactivity of Stephen Colbert.
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