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Okay, so... A few months ago, a bunch of Stephen Colbert fans started modifying footage of Stephen rolling around in front of a green screen, flailing a light saber, to make fun videos. Y'know. Just for kicks. Somehow, the folks over at The Colbert Report caught wind of this and made it into an official Green Screen Challenge. The difference? Capitalization. The Challenge was a big hit... and it seems like indie group The Decemberists are looking to get a little green screen action too, through their new contest, Re-animate The Decemberists, in which fans download footage of the band playing in front of a green screen and create their own video.

Colbert called the band out in an episode last week, accusing The Decemberists of riding on his coat-tails. He then instructed the Colbert Nation to enter The Decemberists' contest, but work in his green screen footage from the first Challenge to tear down the band. Oh snap! But wait. There's a second, unexpected snap...

Last night, Stephen Colbert finally announced the winner of his Green Screen Challenge (which was not a contest). The competition had finally boiled down to two finalists... Bonnie R. and some random guy named George L.

Yes. Yes. George freakin' Lucas made an appearance on the show to present his green screen entry. The man whipped out the big guns from LucasFilm and created a hilarious clip... complete with Jar Jar Binks interaction! I can safely say that's the first time I've ever laughed at Jar Jar.

People are really getting creative in response to Stephen Colbert's "Greeen Screen Challenge," where he asked viewers to fill in behind him as he pantomimed a light saber fight in front of a green screen. Rich already showed you a good example of what's been created already, but for my money, I like the one depicted above.

Why? Not really for the whole iPod thing; the iPod-ification of videos has been done before. It's the foresight of the creator to replace the light saber with an iPod in the first place. Doing that opened up a whole bunch of possibilities. And who doesn't like seeing shadows jump around on a brightly-colored screen? Anyway, like I said, you can see for yourself when you watch the video, which is after the jump.

[via ytmnd.com]