Per Amy Cole’s obituary, Stephen Colbert’s beloved colleague was born in Texas and labored in childcare for many of her life, even incomes a grasp’s diploma in Youngster Life and dealing at Texas Kids’s Hospital as a Youngster Life Specialist. Finally, she pivoted to the entertainemnt trade, which is the place she linked with Colbert ultimately.
“She labored as a Manufacturing Assistant and Government Assistant on numerous tv exhibits, together with ‘Powerful Crowd with Colin Quinn,’ ‘The Colbert Report,’ and ‘The Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” her obituary reads. “Working with Colbert for 16 years was greater than a job to Amy. It gave her a function and offered a chance to showcase herself as an unbelievable teammate to everybody concerned. She was adored by her complete ‘Late Present’ work household, and he or she might be tremendously missed.”
It have to be devastating for Colbert and the “Late Present” workforce to lose a presence like Cole, and the trade’s ideas are with them and Cole’s household.