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Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, to Jewish parents Barry Glass, an accountant, and Shirley Glass, a psychologist, infidelity researcher, and author whom the New York Times called "the godmother of infidelity research".
He is the first cousin once removed of composer Philip Glass, who has appeared on Glass's show and whose music can often be heard on the program.
Glass married Anaheed Alani, a writer and editor, in August 2005. “We have the entire Middle East crisis in our house”, jokes Glass. “Her mom is Christian and her dad is Muslim, from Iraq.
Glass has stated on This American Life that he is a staunch atheist. “It’s not like I don’t feel like I’m a Jew. I feel like I don’t have a choice about being a Jew. Your cultural heritage isn’t like a suitcase you can lose at the airport. I have no choice about it. It is who I am. I can’t choose that. It’s a fact of me”, Glass begins. “But even when I was 14 or 15, it didn’t make that much sense to me that there was this Big Daddy who created the world and would act so crazy in the Old Testament. That we made up these stories to make ourselves feel good and explain the world seems like a much more reasonable explanation. I’ve tried to believe in God but I simply don’t”. Glass notes, “We do a lot of stories on Christians and whenever I get close to the people in the story they try to convert me to Christianity”. Atheism aside, “some years I have a nostalgic feeling to go into a shul and I’ll go in for a High Holiday service”, reveals Glass, who has fond memories of his childhood rabbi’s enthralling sermons. “Rabbi Seymour Esrog was really funny, a great storyteller. He was so good that even the kids would stay and watch him. He’d tell a funny anecdote, something really moving, and go for a big finish. That’s what the show is”, he compares, acknowledging the rabbi’s influence.
Education
Glass attended Milford Mill High School in Baltimore County where he was active in student theater, student government, yearbook, and was the editor of the student literary magazine. He played the part of Captain George Brackett in the high school 1975 production of South Pacific, Lowe in their 1976 production of Damn Yankees, and Bud Frump in their 1977 production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying; along with his involvement on stage, he was a member of the Thespian Society. Glass was involved in student government during his junior and senior years, as a member of the executive board. His involvement in yearbook started in 10th grade and continued until he graduated in 1977. A rather popular and outgoing student, Glass was also involved with the morning announcements, as well as being a member of the Milford Mill Honor Society in 1977.
After graduating high school, he attended Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, but transferred to Brown University, where he concentrated in semiotics and graduated in 1982.
Career
Radio broadcasting
Glass has worked in public radio for some 30 years. At 19 he began as an intern at National Public Radio's headquarters in Washington, D.C.He was a reporter and host on several NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. Glass wrote,
    "The very first National Public Radio show that I worked on was Joe Frank's. I think I was influenced in a huge way... Before I saw Joe put together a show, I had never thought about radio as a place where you could tell a certain kind of story."
From November 1990 until September 1995, he co-hosted, with NPR producer Gary Covino a weekly, local program on Chicago Public Radio called The Wild Room. In 1993, Glass said,
    "I like to think of it as the only show on public radio other than Car Talk that both Daniel Schorr [NPR news analyst] and Kurt Cobain [lead singer/guitarist of Nirvana] could listen to. I think it's appropriate that the show [which aired on Friday evenings] is on a station that most people don't listen to at a time when most people won’t hear it. And the fact that public radio never puts a new show on the air or takes any off is definitely to our advantage."
During this time, he spent two years reporting on the Chicago Public School System—one year at a high school, and another at an elementary school. The largest finding of his investigations was that smaller class sizes would contribute to more success in impoverished, inner-city schools.
In 1995, the MacArthur Foundation approached Torey Malatia, general manager of Chicago Public Radio, with an offer of $150,000 to produce a show featuring local Chicago writers and performance artists. Malatia approached Glass who countered that he wanted to do a weekly program with a budget of $300,000. In 1998 Covino told the Chicago Reader, "The show he proposed was The Wild Room. He just didn't call it The Wild Room." Covino continued to produce The Wild Room until February 1996.
Glass invited David Sedaris to read his essays on NPR, which led to Sedaris's success as an independent author. Glass also produced Sedaris's commentaries on NPR.
Since 1995, he has hosted and produced This American Life, from WBEZ. The show was nationally syndicated in June 1996 by Public Radio International and has been national ever since. PRI was eager to take on the program, even as NPR passed on it.
This American Life reaches over 1.7 million listeners on over 500 stations weekly, with an average listening time of 48 minutes. Glass can be heard in all but four episodes.
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013
Very Funny Jokes For Kids Pictures Pics Images Photos 2013

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