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Stephen Colbert teaser ads for ‘Faces of America’ released
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It’s hard not to love PBS and the Faces of America team for posting these promos of Stephen talking family histories with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. I love that on his “COL-bert” side, his family was “holy rollers” and “horse thieves”, among other things.
Here’s the first of the teasers:
And here’s the second, recounting the sweet story of his family’s Christmas ritual:
I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this air!
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January 6th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
The second video is very sweet, but it makes me a little sad. I honestly can’t recall a time when my family actually enjoyed being in the same room with one another. Any loving families out there considering adoption? I’m 26 and totally house broken.
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January 6th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Oh, I really can’t wait until this airs. I’m surprised by the first video – he really knows a lot about how far back his family goes! Makes me a little ashamed that I know so little about how we came to America. And that second video is just unbelievably sweet – I never get tired of that story. <3
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January 6th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I’m looking so forward to the seeing this. I’ve heard him tell the same story he told in the second video, when he was on Letterman a couple of years ago. Its such a great and sweet story.
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January 6th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I’ve always wanted to do a genealogy of my family, but never gotten around to it. The few stories I’ve heard over the years as to how we came to live here have just been fascinating. I’m really looking forward to hearing more about the COL-berts.
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January 6th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I feel ya on that. My dad’s dad died when my father was 5. Both my grandma’s knew nothing about their family. My mother’s dad was the only one who could trace his roots overseas. And that is very very fasinating! We have some old letters from the mid 1950’s that we are in the process of translating but the language was so niche that its hard to get an accurate translation from somoene. They were from the old USSR.
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January 6th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I’m impressed at how much he knows about his family’s history. The story in the second video about his Christmas tradition is so, so sweet – I always love hearing it. I love how close his family is…I truly wish my family was more like that, because we are the exact opposite. Just imagining him parading through the house with his family makes me smile. :]
I’m super excited to see this special, it looks wonderful! Thanks for the great clips!
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January 6th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
when does this program air?
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January 6th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
It’s at the linked PBS site. The first episode airs February 10th, but I don’t know which episode Stephen will be in.
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January 7th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Very sweet, thanks MsI. I believe Stephen referred to his (great-?) great-uncle young Michael on a New York BKAD last year. At least it sounds like the same story. I love that the stories he’s heard are sort of jumbled together, sometimes that’s how these things are handed down I think.
I love the Christmas story too!
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Thank you for posting these clips. These are so wonderful and heart warming.
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January 12th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Thanks much for posting these! I am so looking forward to this.
I suspect the reason he knows that much is because he comes from storytelling families on both sides–everyone seems very colorful! Now, it will be interesting to see how much of it Gates can verify, since I suppose that is the whole point of the show.
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