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Jonathan Morano Dies Following 15-Month Battle With Glioblastoma: ‘Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson’ Writer Was 56

Jonathan Morano, a Peabody Award-winning writer of CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, died June 20 at the in Los Angeles of Glioblastoma.

In addition to The Late Late Show, Morano’s credits include the 2006 People’s Choice Awards, the 2008 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, the 2013 TV special Craig Ferguson: I’m Here to Help, and the 2020 Quibi series Musicology with Tim Kash. Prior to his death, Morano said that the last years of his life were his happiest, “surrounded by the love of his wife and soulmate Aimee Blisten, along with film, art, literature, their friends, their faith, and their two French bulldogs.” He wrote the following list for this obituary: Favorite movies: Withnail and I, Sexy Beast, Moonage Daydream (bowie doc), Children of Men

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