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Stephen Colbert Presents $171,525 to the 'Yellow Ribbon Fund' Charity on 'The Colbert Report' for the Sales Generated by his WristStrong Bracelets
NEW YORK Thu Jan 24, 11:53am
$171,525 is a lot of money for a joke to raise.
 That's how much Stephen
Colbert's "WristStrong" bracelets
have raised since the mock talk show host began
selling them as part of his "wrist awareness" campaign,
started shortly after he broke his left wrist last
June.
On Wednesday night's "The
Colbert Report" on
Comedy Central, the comedian presented the proceeds
to the Yellow
Ribbon Fund,
a charity that assists injured service members
and their families.
Colbert has sold the
bracelets — a parody
of Lance Armstrong's cancer-awareness "LiveStrong" bracelets — and
distributed them to any celebrity he could convince
to wear one, including Katie Couric, Brian Williams
and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Colbert earlier auctioned off the cast from his
broken wrist, raising $17,000, which also benefited
the Yellow Ribbon Fund. The bracelets have since
been a badge of honor for the so-called Colbert
Nation.
Since returning from
the writers strike without his writing staff,
Colbert has managed to get a portrait of himself
hung at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington
D.C., where it will hang between the bathrooms
and near the "America's
Presidents" exhibit for about five more weeks.
SOURCE:
Yahoo News
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