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Stephen Colbert halts more ‘Late Show’ episodes due to recurrence of COVID

Exactly a week after returning to “The Late Show” after a bout of COVID-19, host Stephen Colbert is canceling the taping of more new episodes due to “a recurrence” of the highly contagious virus. “Stephen is experiencing symptoms consistent with a recurrence of COVID,” said a Monday tweet on the CBS show’s Twitter account, notifying fans and followers that the show will be extending its break. After a 15-month stretch and 211 remotely produced episodes, Colbert’s CBS talk show returned to his usual haunt at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater last June with an in-studio audience of 400 people. In response, Colbert’s social media staff called on President Joe Biden “to open America’s strategic Jimmy reserve” and offered a number of famous Jimmys to fill in for Kimmel and CBS’ outgoing “Late Late Show” host James Corden.

LA Times

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