Bringing them a little Hope

Stephen Colbert will broadcast four shows next week from Baghdad, where he says he’ll be “Bob Hope-ing” 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 only trumpeted a vague trip to “the Persian Gulf.”

The series of shows, each to be taped in front of an audience of about 450 troops, has been dubbed “Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando.”

It’s the first time anyone has broadcast from Iraq for a USO tour.

“I don’t want to forget that people are struggling through the things that I sometimes make jokes about,” Colbert said.

It is about the tyke

Lance Armstrong has announced the birth of son Max, his fourth child.

The 37-year-old cycling great posted a message on his Twitter account Thursday night and included a picture of the newborn, playfully sticking out his tongue at the camera.

Max already has his own Twitter address: maxarmstrong1.

Carradine’s final cameo

Fox will air Tuesday’s episode of “Mental,” featuring guest star David Carradine, in the wake of his hanging death in Thailand.

In the medical drama, Carradine plays a famous professor, author and philosopher who lapses into a nonresponsive catatonic state after being struck by lightning.

Some sort of Carradine RIP will air at the end of the episode.

The birthday bunch

Singer-songwriter Gary “US” Bonds is 70. Actor Robert Englund (aka Freddie Krueger) is 60. Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein is 55. Actress-comedian Sandra Bernhard is 54. Actress Amanda Pays is 50. Comedian Colin Quinn is 50. Actor Paul Giamatti is 42. Singer Uncle Kracker is 35. Actress Staci Keanan (“Step By Step,” “My Two Dads”) is 34.