You may have seen some images in the news recently of Stephen Colbert in Olympic garb. Well, if you saw last night's Colbert Report, you know it wasn't because he was shooting scenes for the upcoming sports comedy Nothing to Luge, coming soon to a theater near my imagination. No, he was trying out for the US Olympic Skeleton team, and the segment even included the Verizon Wireless/Budweiser/Dr. Pepper helmet-cam, which, as you know, is a shitload better than the T-Mobile/Natural Light/Mr. Pibb helmet-cam.

The segment continues below.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.