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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Exclusive - Backstage with Zev Chafets

Zev Chafets, author of "Cooperstown Confidential," gets a tour of the Colbert Report's Green Room Hall of Fame. (1:52)

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Posted: 09/02/2009

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