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On October 4, 2024, Glover announced on Twitter that he had cancelled the remaining shows for The New World Tour due to surgery and recovery after experiencing a stroke following the New Orleans concert.
Glover did cancel the tour on October 4, 2024, but at that time he only said he had an unspecified ailment and surgery scheduled. He did not publicly reveal the stroke until later.
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Contemporaneous reporting on Glover's October 4, 2024 statement says he cited an unspecified ailment and upcoming surgery, not a stroke.
- The Los Angeles Times reported that Glover said he was hospitalized in Houston "to make sure of an ailment that had become apparent" and explicitly noted that he "did not disclose additional details" about his health concerns.
- Pitchfork likewise quoted his statement as saying only that he went to the hospital after New Orleans because of "an ailment," and that he had surgery scheduled and needed time to heal.
So while later reporting established that Glover had in fact suffered a stroke, it is inaccurate to say that this is what he announced on Twitter on October 4, 2024. That October statement did not identify the stroke.
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- Donald Glover cancels remainder of Childish Gambino tour - Los Angeles Times
The historic Emmy winner said he was hospitalized in Houston last month "to make sure of an ailment that had become apparent." ... Glover, 41, did not disclose additional details about his health concerns in his Friday statement.
- Childish Gambino Cancels Tour to Recover From Surgery | Pitchfork
"After my show in New Orleans, I went to the hospital in Houston to make sure of an ailment that had become apparent." He continued, "... As of now I have surgery scheduled and need time out to heal."
He and his co-writers were presented with the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series in 2008 for his work on the third season.
The date/season pairing is wrong. 30 Rock's third season began in October 2008, so a 2008 Writers Guild award could not have been for season three.
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This sentence mixes up which season the award was for.
The official Writers Guild awards archive shows that 30 Rock won Comedy Series at the 2008 WGA Awards and also again at the 2010 WGA Awards. Separately, season 3 of 30 Rock did not begin until October 30, 2008 and ran through May 14, 2009.
That means a 2008 WGA award could not have been awarded for the third season, because season 3 had not even started yet. The timing instead matches the 2010 WGA award, which is the WGA entry that lists Donald Glover among the winning writers for the period covering season 3.
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- Writers Guild Awards Winners 2012-2006
2010 AWARDS WINNERS ... COMEDY SERIES 30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tom Ceraulo, Vali Chandrasekaran, Tina Fey, Donald Glover ... ; NBC. The same archive also lists 2008 AWARDS WINNERS ... COMEDY SERIES 30 ROCK ... Donald Glover ... ; NBC.
- 30 Rock: Season 3 | Rotten Tomatoes
Season 3 - 30 Rock ... Release Date Oct 30, 2008 ... Episode 22 Aired May 14, 2009 Kidney Now!