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Ira Glass On This American Life's TV Hiatus, Radio Show's Future

By Marcus Gilmer in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 18, 2009 8:20PM

Yesterday, Mediabistro reported comments from This American Life's Ira Glass on the future of the program's TV show: "I don't know if I can say this yet, but we've asked to be taken off of television." So why did it all go down? Is Ira Glass bringing the show back to Chicago HQ? WBEZ's Justin Kaufmann talked to Ira and got some answers.

The TV show gave us some great moments, including this now-legendary clip featuring Chicago's own Weiner Circle (language NSFW).

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