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October 13, 2006 12:08 PM PDT

Winner in Colbert video contest

by Caroline McCarthy
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Comedy Central's resident pundit Stephen Colbert has announced the victor in his lightsaber-filled Green Screen Challenge video competition. No, it wasn't the fake iPod ad, or the "World of Colbertcraft," or any of the many submissions in which he battled bears. (Colbert claims to be mortally afraid of them.)

The winner, "Freedom Fighter" by "Bonnie R." from California, was announced on Thursday night's episode of "The Colbert Report." It featured Colbert as the centerpiece of an intentionally hokey video game in which he uses a lightsaber to protect eagles and American flags. But winning doesn't seem to have been necessary to gain Green Screen Challenge fame. Other videos gained overwhelming fan followings, with quality running the gamut from amateur YouTubery--Colbert fighting the "Star Wars Kid" of viral video fame, for example--to full-out professional visuals. George Lucas himself submitted an entry in which Colbert fought his way through a legit "Star Wars" sequence starring the notorious Jar Jar Binks.

Want to watch it? It can be found, naturally, on YouTube.

(Photo: Comedy Central)

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline.
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