{"id":2137,"date":"2025-04-08T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:56:13","slug":"late-show-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Late show tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After honoring his close friend and coworker, Stephen Colbert got emotional on air.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Cole was on Stephen\u2019s show for many years, but she died of cancer not long ago. She was only 53 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen dedicated the end of his Late Show to his friend.<\/p>\n<p>There was a title card with a picture of Amy at the end of Monday\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>The photo had a caption that said, \u201cDedicated to our dear friend Amy Cole, 1970\u20132024\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LateNighter says that people in the audience said the show, which was usually funny, became serious.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen supposedly told them to stop cheering.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen announced with a smile, \u201cThat\u2019s all for the late show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked like he was thinking carefully and trying not to cry.<\/p>\n<p>After saying \u201cgood night,\u201d he quietly left the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the studio weren\u2019t shown the title card, so they didn\u2019t know why Stephen left so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Writers and staff members paid Amy moving tributes online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with and getting to know Amy Cole was one of the nicest things I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d We all loved her so much on our show, and we always will,\u201d Brian Stack said on X, which used to be Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the middle of all the chaos at work, Amy Cole was a bright spot of joy, peace, and happiness.\u201d The producer Opus Moreschi said, \u201cI am so sad that she\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease give to Amy\u2019s favorite charity in her name if you love someone with cancer, or even if you don\u2019t,\u201d he said, adding a link to Radio Lollipop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After honoring his close friend and coworker, Stephen Colbert got emotional on air. Amy Cole was on Stephen\u2019s show for many years, but she died of cancer&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}