Dan Bakkedahl

ENTERTAINMENT: DAN BAKKEDAHL, Florida State Unviersity 1993:

BROADCAST MEDIA: DAN BAKKEDAHL, Florida State University 1993: Correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show

CULLMAN - Dan Bakkedahl came to Cullman on Monday for his first alcohol- free Oktoberfest.

"I'm `oktcited' to be at Oktoberfest and I'm `oktcited' to be sober," Bakkedahl deadpanned about the event in dry Cullman County.

Bakkedahl was covering the event as a correspondent for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, a show that takes a look at the news through comedic and sometimes sarcastic lenses.
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Bakkedahl, dressed in a suit and tie, mixed with the night's crowd under the large tent behind the Cullman County Museum.

At one point he picked up a bottle of OktoberZest sparkling cider, a non-alcoholic beverage, with a questioning and disturbed look for the camera.He wore a garland, usually reserved for the ladies, atop his head and did the chicken dance to Terry Cavanaugh and the Alpine Express.

The crew had been in Birmingham filming a segment earlier in the day on the Free the Hops campaign, Bakkedahl said.That campaign is trying to get the state to ease the limits on the type of beer and size of beer containers that can be sold in Alabama.

The crew then came to Cullman, where voters in the city and county have repeatedly rejected alcohol sales.

Bakkedahl interviewed Bob Kurtz, president of the Oktoberfest Cullman committee and pastor of St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church.
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CULLMAN - Dan Bakkedahl came to Cullman on Monday for his first alcohol- free Oktoberfest.