Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Off the Farm (Season 6, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Off the Farm (Season 6, Episode 2)

TV Episode | Documentary, Biography, History

Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet, two comics who moved away from their homey family farms to pursue a career in fashion and clownship only to find unexpected success in Hollywood, learn what they have in common with their ancestors.

Director

Sabin Streeter

Writer

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Producers

Prisca Pointdujour | Natalia Warchol | Elizabeth Woller

Cinematographer

Simon Fanthorpe

Editors

Bruce Shaw | Merril Stern

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Edit Released

Updated Oct 15, 2019

Release date

Oct 15, 2019 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 4 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
4 cast members

Name	Known for
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Self - Host (as Henry Louis Gates) Self - Host (as Henry Louis Gates) See fewer	12 Years a Slave (2013)
Melissa McCarthy Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	The Heat (I) (2013)
Eric Stonestreet Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	The Loft (2014)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Mitchell Pritchett (archive footage) Mitchell Pritchett (archive footage) See fewer	Cocaine Bear (2023)