QUICK TAKES - June 6, 2009

Stephen Colbert will broadcast four shows next week from Baghdad, where he says he’ll be “Bob Hoping” it for the troops.

Colbert arrived at the former Al Faw Palace at Camp Victory on Friday. For weeks, he’s promoted the trip on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” but because the military urged caution, he has trumpeted only a vague trip to “the Persian Gulf.”

Each of the shows will be taped in front of an audience of about 450 troops. It’s the first time anyone has broadcast from Iraq for a USO tour.