Thursday’s Colbert Report taping cancelled after death of Stephen Colbert’s mother

(Above: Stephen honours his mother on her 92nd birthday, Nov. 6, 2012.)

Update 6/19: Tonight will be a new episode, with guests The Postal Service.

Update 6/18 #2: The Colbert Report website’s “upcoming guests” section has been restored with new shows scheduled for June 19 and June 20, but nothing has been promoted on the show’s Facebook or Twitter pages as of yet.



Update 6/18: Ticketholders for the Tuesday, June 18 taping (with guest Jeremy Scahill) were informed yesterday that their taping was cancelled. At this point, it should be assumed that the Wednesday, June 19 taping (with guests The Postal Service) and Thursday, June 20 taping (with guest Joss Whedon) will be cancelled as well. Comedy Central has not been providing public updates, and the “upcoming guests” feature on the Colbert Report website has been removed.

Update 6/17: The Monday, June 17 episode (with guest Sen. Olympia Snowe) has reportedly been cancelled and replaced with a repeat, with new episodes returning Tuesday.

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Thursday night’s Colbert Report will be a rerun so that its star, Stephen Colbert, can be with his family after his mother, Lorna Colbert, died Wednesday at the age of 92. This according to Dan Dinello, via Twitter, who has worked with Stephen and whose nephew (Paul Dinello) and son (Bryan Dinello) are on staff of the Report. Dinello also tweeted that Lorna died one hour prior to yesterday’s hour-long episode featuring Paul McCartney. (As of 6/14, both tweets have been deleted.)

Lorna Colbert’s obituary appears on the Charleston’s Post and Courier website. The family has asked for donations to the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation for the Dr. James W. Colbert Endowment Fund.

In February of 2012, production of the show was suspended so Stephen could be at his mother’s side after an unspecified medical emergency.

“She gave us a real scare this year,” he told Oprah Winfrey in an interview last September.

Lorna spoke about her son on the South Carolina talk show The Big Picture in 2008: