The Daily Show’s Stephen Colbert is the co-star on tonight’s Law and Order: Criminal Intent. For those who would rather not have any details about the plot - a spoiler box. CAMPAIGN FOR SAINTHOOD RESULTS IN MURDER AND DECEIT; STEPHEN COLBERT (‘THE DAILY SHOW’) GUEST-STARS – Detectives Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) probe the murder of an elderly woman who was poisoned by an anonymous package and set their sights on a crafty forger (guest star Stephen Colbert, “The Daily Show”) whose expertise is needed by a local church to verify documents proving the sainthood of 19th-century healer named Brother Jerome. But the investigators uncover a trail of conflicting old letters that could complicate the church’s expensive campaign to canonize Jerome – and they ponder how official sainthood can require a small fortune and human lives. Jamey Sheridan and Courtney B. Vance also star. TV-14
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I never noticed before that spoiler will actually show up in the message preview caption…
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Sorry, that should have been “spoilers” (as in, the contents of the spoiler box)
Oh never mind, I need more coffee lol
I didn’t like Colbert in the first scene where he is confronted by Goren and Eames – he came off a little too light and perky, as if he were just about to launch into a “Daily Show” sketch. But he did fine in the rest of the episode.
It was an interesting re-telling of Mark Hofmann and the Mormon forgery murders. At first I was a bit miffed that they chose to recast the story as a Catholic cause for sainthood foundation, rather than use the original Mormon church, but I realized that if you’re basing a show in New York, it’s much easier to talk about an influential Catholic hierarchy than an influential Mormon hierarchy.
- Rick
Colbert also showed up last night in the season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Branching out from The Daily Show it would seem!
He also provides voices for a few characters on both “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law” and “Crank Yankers.”