Since account bankrupt aboriginal bygone morning that new episodes of "The Colbert Report" had been abruptly put on authority due to "unforeseen circumstances," belief as to the acumen has ranged far and wide. Many admirers doubtable a ancestors illness, while others speculated that the host had been accursed or that he was agreeable in some affectionate of camp PR stunt.
While "The Daily Show" has ahead annulled shows at the endure minute -- already for the bearing of Jon Stewart's added adolescent and already afterwards the afterlife of a staffer -- this is the aboriginal time "The Colbert Report" has done so.
On Thursday, a being who has a business accord with the arrangement told The Huffington Post that the host's mother was actively ill, and on Friday, The New York Post cited an added antecedent who accepted the illness.
According to that source, the arrangement has remained tight-lipped over the bearings because the Colberts are "a actual clandestine family.”
Colbert was built-in the youngest of 11 accouchement to his mother Lorna and ancestor James Colbert. Tragedy addled the ancestors in 1974, if James and two of Colbert's brothers, Peter and Paul, were dead in the blast of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 in Charlotte, N.C. Colbert was 10 years old at the time.
Fans and supporters accept been tweeting letters of adulation and abutment for Colbert and his ancestors back aboriginal Thursday. The appearance will abide in reruns until the host is able to return.
Lorna Colbert appeared on a South Carolina television base talking about her acclaimed son in 2008:
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