Colbert Report suspended possibly due to illness of Stephen's mother.

Courtesy of the Huffington Post: Multiple outlets have cited a family illness as the cause of the suspension of "The Colbert Report," and now a person who has a business relationship with the show has told Huffington Post that the host's mother is seriously ill, and the show will remain suspended until he can return.

As many of you no doubt know Colbert's father and two brothers died when he was quite young and, since he was the youngest and his other siblings had moved out already, after that tragedy he and his mother lived alone together until he left for college.

Obviously they were extremely close, as you can certainly discern from this rare interview with Mrs. Colbert in 2008.


In my opinion Stephen Colbert is a national treasure and  we are very lucky to have him. For that all of us owe his mother a great deal of thanks, and to let her know that she is in our hearts.

I don't pray, but I certainly would not hold it against any of you for doing so.