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Ira Glass on "The Colbert Report"

From PRI's This American Life 22 April, 2009 11:13:00
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Watch video of "This American Life" host Ira Glass going head-to-head with Stephen Colbert.

Ira Glass and "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert spoke about the upcoming "This American Life" - Live! Digital Cinema Event, as well as some of the things that Ira encounters when people meet him in person and the world of public radio.  Watch the interview:

"This American Life" – Live! will be sent live via satellite to more than 400 select movie theaters and performing arts centers nationwide on April 23rd at 8:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. CDT / 6:00 p.m. MDT (time-delayed at 8:00 p.m. PDT and Arizona / 7:00 p.m. Hawaii).

Tickets for this special in-theater event are available at presenting theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com.  For a complete list of presenting theater locations and prices please visit www.thisamericanlife.org (theaters and participants may be subject to change).  Tickets to attend the live event at NYU Skirball Center sold out in just two days. 

Due to popular demand for tickets to the live show, an encore presentation of the live event has been scheduled for May 7th.  So if your theatre was sold out, or if you can't make it on the 23rd, click here for encore tickets.

The evening’s lineup will include popular This American Life contributors Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, Mike Birbiglia, David Rakoff and Dave Hill, plus a cartoon by Chris Ware, additional visuals by Arthur Jones, and a special musical performance by Joss Whedon, creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”  Together they will perform a two-hour, live stage version of the radio show, centered on the theme “Return to the Scene of the Crime.”

Produced by Chicago Public Radio, "This American Life" is PRI's multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed program that describes and documents contemporary American life. More "This American Life."

© Copyright 2009 Public Radio International. All rights reserved.

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Laura Stich on 23 April, 2009 01:21:17
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From your voice, I thought you were a 19 year old boy with not glasses. Ha!
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cmpnurse on 23 April, 2009 08:16:32
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Great interview with Stephen Colbert. I had never heard of you or your show on public radio, but I'm going to check it out ASAP. And, by the way, are you married? You're are just too cute!
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Amy Bowman on 23 April, 2009 08:44:35
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Ira Glass owns my heart. Each week, I await in anticipation the one hour on Saturday when his voice comes through the radio.

His voice is so fantastic, and this video of him is absolutely adorable! I'm a twenty year old college student, and I think he's SO precious. I really don't think he understands how wonderful he makes my life.
I love you, Ira!
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Beki on 23 April, 2009 10:35:19
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Just saw the live show. It was *GREAT*!Mike Birbiglia was hilarious, as always, but Dan Savage was definitely the best part.
HOWEVER, David Rakoff and David Hill were NOT THERE! No mention as to why they were absent. WTF???
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sara on 24 April, 2009 09:24:31
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Finally, people will know what I'm talking about when I wear my, "this american life", t-shirt. For some reason, this interview seems to have been more widely seen by my friends than the one on Letterman, last yr.
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Jo on 24 April, 2009 10:10:12
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I have one of those T-shirts too! I wore it to the theater showing. It was absolutely faaaantastic. It made me laugh; it made me cry...all that jazz.
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Lindsay on 27 April, 2009 01:28:42
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ColbertNation.com lets you stream it from outside the US:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/225499/april-22-2009/ira-glass
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anonymousviewer on 29 April, 2009 05:05:05
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I don't have a teevee but I watched this on Hulu. Ira Glass would doubtlessly cringe to hear it said but: he looked super-hot. I can't really get over hearing his voice and seeing him at the same time (kind of like how I can't get over picturing the guy who sings the Ketchup song now that I've seen Prairie Home Companion live) but whatever, Ira is hot.
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OS on 11 June, 2009 11:37:26
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Fun clip! Thanks for posting the Colbert nation url. I love this show and I only recently discovered that PRI was separate from NPR. Ira mentioned the need for funding. I've donated to NPR, now I will make sure that I donate to this show on PRI.
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