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Biden and Colbert’s Emotional Late Show Interview

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Rounding out his first week of hosting the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, viewers were treated to the most earnest Stephen Colbert he has allowed himself to be Thursday night when he interviewed Vice President Joe Biden. It was a vulnerable conversation shared between two men who both have experienced deep loss and found solace in their Irish Catholic faith. It was the type of … [Read more...] about Biden and Colbert’s Emotional Late Show Interview

An Ancestral Tour of Stephen Colbert’s Family

By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
February / March 2015

January 23, 2015 by 11 Comments

It was a damp morning in late February 2008 when the phone rang. Harvard scholar and PBS host Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. was calling with one of his random genealogical requests. He was going to be on The Colbert Report later that day. Did I, by any chance, know anything about Stephen Colbert’s roots? Luckily for him, I had two hundred years of family history at the … [Read more...] about An Ancestral Tour of Stephen Colbert’s Family

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October 15, 1995

Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature on this day in 1995. Heaney became the fourth Irish writer to be honored with the Nobel Prize, following WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett. The Nobel committee awarded Heaney for his “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.”

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