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(above) has traded the dojo for emojis with his new VanDammemoji app. The “Kickboxer” star tells Confidential that he personally uses emoticons not only to make texting more fun, but because he feels it can help bridge “a generation gap.” His personal favorite up until now had been the “thumbs up” emoticon. But now that Van Damme has his own app, he has two new favorites. What message they actually communicate is debatable. “For me, there’s two,” Van Damme told us from his home in Hong Kong. “The roundhouse kick emoji and the one of me doing a split on two tigers because they’re both just so iconic and indicative of all things martial arts. Plus, tigers are such fierce, beautiful creatures.”
CFearless insult comic is back from the Middle East, where he spent the holidays entertaining our fighting men and women. And according to Ross, the key to loosening up combat troops is opening the show with a shot at their leader. In this case, it was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
“I said, ‘The chairman invited me here and I was so flattered — now here I am half asleep. He wouldn’t really tell me where he was taking me – it was like being on a date with
Ross told us from his Manhattan home. He calls that tactic “vicarious insubordination.”
Ross, who is nicknamed “The Roastmaster General,” performed three shows on Christmas Day, all around the Sunni Triangle, though he claims he had no idea where he was going when he left Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland aboard a C-17 transport plane that wound up in Baghdad.
“I told my agent ‘I want sand under my toes for Christmas’ and this is where she sent me,” he said. According to Ross, there were several aborted takeoffs and plan changes during his tour, which served as a constant reminder that he was in a war zone.
“Even though we’re down to 5,000 troops in Iraq, people