Comments on: The Truth Behind Stephen Colbert’s Broken Wrist: Injury on the set of “The Colbert Report”

By: DB

DB — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:54:06 +0000

Thanks for the firsthand report, sbunny8! Hopefully you’ll come back and chat again. We’re a friendly bunch!

By: sbunny8

sbunny8 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:39:01 +0000

I was in the audience on Thursday June 21st 2007, but I wasn’t in the front row. Yes that was definitely the night he broke his wrist and made the joke about asking if anyone in the audience was an osteopath. When the camera was off between segments, he was clearly in pain. I think he used an ice pack a few times. Everyone in the whole room was hoping it wasn’t serious but we found out later it was actually a broken wrist.

Later reports said June 27, but that was a typo. I’m guessing that in someone’s handwriting a 1 looked like a 7.

Your eyewitness is correct. It looked a lot like someone slipping on a banana peel and yes he did lie down across the laps of four or five people in the front row and stayed there for about a minute.

By: TheLakeEffect

TheLakeEffect — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:02:21 +0000

I just got back online. I had to find out about this from a newscrawl on a 24 hour news channel…

By: DB

DB — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:01:44 +0000

@MC:

I did notice that. Poor Stephen. That has got to suck.

By: MC Esteban

MC Esteban — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:58:58 +0000

Check out the Anthony Romero video again, he only uses his right hand to high-five the audience.

By: vigwig

vigwig — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:28:16 +0000

Pobrecito Esteban! I guess he needed a plaster wrist cast because he was moving it around too much with the removable brace? You couldn’t tell from his frequent gestures on the show that he was injured. Such a trooper!

By: Xcesiv4ce

Xcesiv4ce — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:48:37 +0000

All that milk he drinks and he broke a bone? He better be happy that he wasn’t raised by my grandma because we had the “Walk It Off” and “Green Rubbing Alcohol or Mercurochome” Healthcare plans.

He should let the audience sign his cast.

By: wiki

wiki — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:58:07 +0000

It does seem an inordinately long time between the
time of his initial injury and getting the cast. I
hope he wasn’t in a lot of pain before he got the cast. Anyway, I hope he’s not in pain now either. :(

By: DB

DB — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:57:03 +0000

@Marisa:

I know he’s been wearing a brace almost since the first night that it happened, but I the plaster cast only went on yesterday, apparently.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:53:39 +0000

He’s had the cast for awhile.

I went to the show on 7/19, and he had it on for the toss, and then he took it off before he did the show. He made a comment about having “seriously broken his wrist.”

I was going to wait for him after the show, but it ran long, and he came rushing out of the studio pretty quickly. I had a mini conversation with him from his car (he called out to me, as I was dejectedly walking away, what a nice guy), and he flashed his cast and did a couple pictures. It was great/so kind of him.