https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2023/11/27/23978767/stephen-colbert-appendix-burst-rerun-late-show-cbs#:~:text=Six%20weeks%20after%20COVID%2D19,for%20Tuesday%2C%20Wednesday%20and%20Thursday.

Six weeks after COVID-19 shuttered Stephen Colbert's “The Late Show,” the show is again sidelined as the host recovers from a burst appendix. The comedian revealed on social media Monday that he's recovering after surgery, wiping out planned shows for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Stephen Colbert details his experience with a ruptured appendix: "I was not aware of the amount of trouble I was in" (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stephen-colbert-ruptured-appendix-treatment-recovery-late-show-1235742972/)

Colbert returned to The Late Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9HbtGj8tcA) Monday night for the first time in 20 days, telling his audience that "I was in a heap of trouble" during his previous show on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Colbert said he started feeling symptoms the day before when he interviewed David Letterman. Colbert noted, once he got home from the taping, he began to feel bad. “I didn’t know what was going on," he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I thought I might have caught something from Dave’s beard,” he joked. “I woke up the next morning just in abdominal agony, and I figured the pain would go away.” Colbert added that the pain was "extremely bad." “The pain was manageable. It only hurt when I moved — and when I didn’t,” he said, to audience laughs. “I held it together for two monologues and two-second acts and then a long interview with Bradley Cooper because there is no pain when you’re lost in those baby blues. But here’s the thing: the moment I was not prepared for — and I want to start off by saying I love this man — was the cooking segment I did with Jose Andres. At the end of it, he spontaneously grabbed me to dance with him afterward.”