Stephen Colbert, one of the most well-known political satirists and comedians of the last two decades, has died. Continue reading to learn what happened to Paul.

Paul Colbert’s cause of death: What happened to Stephen Colbert’s brother?

The ‘Late Show’ host was only ten years old when his father and two brothers were killed in a car accident. Colbert’s father and two younger brothers, Paul and Peter, were passengers on a plane flying from Charleston to Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 11, 1974.

Flight 212, an 82-passenger DC-9 plane operated by Eastern Air Lines, appeared to be making a routine approach to Douglas Municipal Airport. The plane never made it to Douglas, crashing three miles short of the runway on a cornfield-covered hillside.

Stephen Colbert is a comedian, writer, and producer from the United States. From 2005 to 2014, he hosted the satirical Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, and since September 2015, he has hosted the CBS talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Colbert was the youngest of eleven children born to a Catholic family in Washington, D.C. He spent his childhood in Bethesda, Maryland. He grew up on James Island, a Charleston, South Carolina, suburb. Colbert’s siblings are James III, Edward, Mary, William, Margo, Thomas, Jay, Elizabeth, Paul, Peter, and Stephen, in descending order of age.

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