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Ira Glass on "The Colbert Report"

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:13:00 -0500

Watch video of "This American Life" host Ira Glass going head-to-head with Stephen Colbert.

Laura Stich

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:21:17 -0500

From your voice, I thought you were a 19 year old boy with not glasses. Ha!

cmpnurse

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:16:32 -0500

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!

Amy Bowman

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:44:35 -0500

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!

Beki

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:35:19 -0500

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???

sara

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:24:31 -0500

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.

Jo

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:10:12 -0500

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.

Lindsay

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:28:42 -0500

ColbertNation.com lets you stream it from outside the US:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/225499/april-22-2009/ira-glass

anonymousviewer

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:05:05 -0500

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.

OS

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:37:26 -0500

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.