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Aug 20th, 2007, 2:32 pm

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Hollywood Reporter

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• ‘Daily Show’ gets serious with trip to Iraq

NEW YORK - Fake-news program “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” is taking a page from serious news organizations this week with on-the-scene reports from the war zone in Iraq.

Correspondent Rob Riggle, who has combat experience as a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, spent five days in Iraq last week with “Daily Show” writer Kevin Bleyer and field producer Glenn Clements. They went with a USO sketch comedy tour known as “Operation Feel the Heat” — armed with small, handheld cameras — and also brought back video that will be used for a “Daily Show” about the troops and their lives in Iraq.

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