Stephen Colbert Fears Substitute Host Would Steal His Late Night Show Gig: Report
The host revealed that during a back-to-back taping on November 20, he suddenly suffered an excruciating pain in his side.
“I was in a heap of trouble,” Colbert said during Monday night’s opening monologue, according to NBC News.
Colbert’s band leader Louis Cato chimed in on the incident, “I knew something was wrong when, for the first time in almost nine years, you had to rehearse the monologue sitting at the desk with a barf bucket next to you.”
“The pain was manageable,” Colbert recalled. “It only hurt when I moved. And when I didnāt.”
