Lady Gaga's Thanksgiving Special Includes Tony Bennett, Turkey Carving (Video)

10:36 AM PST 11/21/2011 by Michael O'Connell

A Very Gaga Thanksgiving

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ABC's Lady Gaga Thanksgiving special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, will not be a hastily assembled concert special.

The network has released the first promos for the 90-minute broadcast, and in addition to a duet with Tony Bennett and a sit-down interview with Katie Couric at Gaga's alma mater, New York's Sacred Heart Catholic High School, there's an elaborate meal.

Chef Art Smith appears at a banquet table filled with Thanksgiving fixings -- and a waffle iron -- to teach the singer how to prepare deep-friend turkey and waffles for her guests.

Those guests include a small troupe of children, shown in the preview gathered around Gaga while she blows glitter on them.

Conceived and directed by the singer, the Nov. 24 special appears slightly less traditional than A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: