Following the Thanksgiving hiatus, one week of episodes of “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” has been canceled unexpectedly as Colbert recovers from surgical procedure following a ruptured appendix.
The information got here by way of a publish on the CBS present’s official Threads web page on Monday. “Sorry to say that I’ve to cancel our reveals this week,” the publish reads. “I’m positive you’re considering, ‘Turkey overdose, Steve? Gravy boat capsize?’ Really, I’m recovering from surgical procedure for a ruptured appendix. I’m grateful to my docs for his or her care and to Evie and the children for placing up with me. Going ahead, all emails to my appendix might be dealt with by my pancreas.”
“The Late Present” has been no stranger to interruptions this yr. Particularly, it was off for 5 months throughout the Writers Guild of America Strike, which resulted in late September. (Throughout that point, Colbert together with late night time hosts Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver hosted a podcast and donated the proceeds to their out-of-work staffers.) The present returned in early October, however later that month, Colbert hosted one episode from his dwelling after testing optimistic for COVID earlier than the remainder of the week’s reveals had been canceled.
Tuesday’s canceled present was set to function Jennifer Garner and Baz Luhrmann as company, with John Scofield sitting in with Louis Cato and the Late Present Band. On Wednesday, former “Late Present” band later John Batiste was set to carry out, whereas Patrick Stewart was the featured visitor. Barbra Streisand and Kelsey Grammer had been the company for Thursday’s present.
