Mother Lorna Stephen Colbert: Ill Host suspends ' Colbert Report '

Mother Lorna Stephen Colbert: Ill Host suspends ' Colbert Report:  "The Colbert Report" has been briefly abeyant due to the host's mother, Lorna Colbert, 91, falling ill, sources abutting to the appearance say.

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:

Colbert Report closed while Stephen Colbert visits sick mother

Colbert Report closed while Stephen Colbert visits sick mother:  “The Colbert Report” shut down this anniversary led to crazed belief about why Comedy Central brilliant Stephen Colbert apoplectic assembly on his berserk accepted show. Despite rumors the appearance was about to jump address to addition network, or that Colbert’s political Super PAC was somehow involved, the simple account is that the actor took some time off to absorb with his ailing mother.

Comedy Central appear a acting shut down of assembly of “The Colbert Report” on Wednesday. “Due to abrupt circumstances, the appearance will air echo episodes on Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 16,” arrangement agent Steve Albani said in a columnist statement.

The abrupt statement, with no added account of “The Colbert Report” annulled taping sessions, fueled accumulation belief about what ability be traveling on abaft the scenes. Some of the added camp explanations included rumors of the appearance affective to addition arrangement or that Stephen Colbert was angry with Comedy Central over the show.

One tongue-in-cheek cabal approach even appropriate that conceivably Stephen Colbert had baseborn all the funds from his political Super PAC, Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow and fled the country.

According to the New York Post, the absolute acumen for “The Colbert Report” abeyant taping sessions was in fact due to a Stephen Colbert ancestors emergency. Citing sources abutting to the show, The New York Post letters that Colbert took some time off to absorb with his ailing, 91-year-old mother, Lorna Colbert.

Stephen Colbert is one of 11 accouchement and is reportedly actual abutting to his mother. Colbert absent two of his brothers, Peter and Paul, and his father, James, in a even blast in 1974.

No set date has been accustomed for the acknowledgment of “The Colbert Report,” but so far the appearance is reportedly on agenda to resume assembly aboriginal next week.