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THE childhood of comic Stephen Colbert – who replaces David Letterman next year – was anything but amusing.
The 49-year-old Comedy Central funnyman – just named by CBS to succeed the veteran late-night host – had his own personal 9/11 tragedy.
On Sept. 11, 1974, when Colbert was just 10 years old, his father Dr. James Colbert, a medical school dean at Yale University, and two brothers – Peter, 15, and Paul, 18 – were killed in the crash of an Eastern Air Lines flight while it was attempting to land in Charlotte, N.C. Dad and sons were en route to enroll the two boys at school.
At the time of the horrific crash, Colbert says his entire world turned upside down.
“Things didn’t seem that important anymore,” he told an interviewer. “’Nothing seemed that important anymore.”
