In a recent installment of Comedy Central’s hit series The Colbert Reprot, host Stephen Colbert paid an imaginary visit to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and displayed his skills with a lightsaber in front of a green screen, asking ‘Lucas is going to add all the CGI later, right?’ Well, Lucas may have bigger fish to fry, but some Internet wonderkinds with too much time on their hands have done he job for him and posted their creations on popular viral video site YouTube.com.
Using everything from crude 2D drawings and image clippings to fairly decent CG animation, artists have depicted Colbert fighting bears, Dick Cheney, the Rancor Monster from Star Wars: Episode VI’Return of the the Jedi and the lightsaber-twirling ‘Star Wars Kid’ from the famous viral video that inspired Colbert’s bit.
After he learned of the videos hitting the web, Colbert issued an official call for entries on his show but wil not be giving out prizes. Check out the Stephen Colbert Green Screen Challenge entries at www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml and view some more at www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Mkm3QtwgE.
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