Stephen Colbert is mourning the death of his assistant – how do you properly grieve a colleague?
Monday night’s edition of Stephen Colbert’s late-night US talk show ended on a sombre note. The usually chipper host of The Late Show asked the audience to hold their applause, then appeared choked up with emotion as he briefly said goodbye, before leaving the studio in silence. What the people in the crowd didn’t know was that Colbert was mourning the loss of his long-time colleague Amy Cole: the executive assistant, who worked for the presenter for 16 years, had died a few days earlier at the age of 53. When Monday’s show aired on American TV, it concluded with a black title card dedicating the episode “to our dear friend”.
Grieving for a colleague – whether they were a , a mentor or simply someone you. Often grieving colleagues are forced to coldly consider the practicalities – who else can make sense of the spreadsheets? Who can fill their job? – before they’ve even had time to decipher how they’re feeling.
