VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Talks Holy Cross in Web Exclusive

In a Facebook web exclusive, comedian and host of “The Late Show” Stephen Colbert demonstrated the far reach of the College of the Holy Cross Community. When asked by an audience member, “What’s the craziest thing that’s ever happened to you on the streets of New York,” Colbert didn’t quite answer the question, but rather told an unforgettable story.

While filming for a daily television show at a retirement community in Arizona, Colbert met a resident who shared that he was a member of the Holy Cross Class of 1942. Colbert then asked the man if he knew his father, James "Jim" Colbert ’42.

“Jim Colbert! Why we double dated to the senior dance,” the man answered. He continued on to share that he even knew Colbert’s mother, and that he and Colbert’s father were floor mates as students on Mount St. James.

As the conversation continued, this man asked Colbert if he had his father’s yearbook from Holy Cross. When Colbert admitted he did not and that no one in his family did, the man retrieved his yearbook, took out the page featuring Colbert’s father, and gave it to him.

 

 



Colbert commented on the Facebook video with an image of him holding the framed page from the Holy Cross yearbook which now hangs in his office on set of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

This "Holy Cross in the News" item by Jessica McCaughey