Stephen Colbert getting haircut normally wouldn't get much notice. But the edgy political comedian getting his locks shorn by no less than Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of coalition troops in Iraq, during Colbert's taping of his Comedy Central show there as part of a U.S.O. morale trip is definitely interesting. It looks like the general gave him a high and not so tight.

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Stephen Colbert gets a military style haircut from General Raymond Odierno, Commander of the Multinational Corps, Iraq, Sunday, June 7, 2009.

From the Associated Press report, it's clear Colbert apparently didn't shave his humor for the troops, keeping it real in terms of his "truthiness."

An AP excerpt:

"It must be nice here in Iraq because I understand some of you keep coming back again and again," he said during the taping of the first show on Sunday. "You've earned so many frequent flyer miles, you've earned a free ticket to Afghanistan."

Ouch.

The New York Times reports Colbert decided to stick to his over-the-top conservative talk-show host persona.

"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."

 

Colbert may not have tailored his humor but he did tailor is suit which he had made of camouflage. It's actually not a bad-looking suit.