A few weeks ago, we found out that Stephen Colbert is going to guest on the season premiere of Elsbeth as a late night host.
Now, we are learning from Deadline that Andy Richter will play the hilarious but long-suffering sidekick to Scotty (Colbert) on the fictional Way Late. Richter’s character is married to Amy Sedaris, who will play the headstrong, devoted head writer and executive producer.
My prediction is that they will scheme to and successfully murder Colbert, who has said he wants to play a corpse on the police procedural, so that they can take over Way Late. However, they won’t get away with murder because Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) will figure it out.
Richter should have no problem with the role, after all, he was Conan O’Brien’s sidekick for over 25 years on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, and Conan.
The season premiere airs October 12th on CBS (unless Donald Trump gets it cancelled), and I can’t wait to see it! It will probably be the funniest show of the week…if South Park isn’t on that week.
