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Weekly Comment:
Biden and Colbert’s Emotional Late Show Interview

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
September 11, 2015

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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 Weekly Comment:
Biden and Colbert’s Emotional Late Show Interview

Stephen Colbert: One Last
Report (It’s Genealogical)

By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
February / March 2015

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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 Stephen Colbert: One Last
Report (It’s Genealogical)