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WARNING:<\/strong> Spoilers ahead for the Season 3 premiere of Elsbeth.<\/em><\/p>\n Stephen Colbert is already turning a major career shake-up into dramatic television fodder. In the Season 3 premiere of CBS\u2019s Elsbeth<\/span><\/em><\/a>, Colbert plays Scotty Bristol<\/span><\/strong>,<\/b> a narcissistic late-night talk show host who becomes the episode\u2019s murder victim \u2014 a role that feels especially meta given real-world developments.<\/p>\n What makes it more striking: Colbert filmed his Elsbeth<\/span><\/em> scenes the very same week that CBS announced it would cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/span><\/em>. Despite the timing, cast and crew say he stayed \u201cflawless\u201d and fully committed. Carrie Preston, star of Elsbeth<\/span><\/em>, <\/i>recalled<\/a> being anxious about working with him so soon after the cancellation news but said Colbert\u2019s presence energized the set.<\/p>\n In the episode<\/a>, Scotty Bristol is portrayed as a demanding, abrasive boss who alienates his writers. His executive producer Laurel (Amy Sedaris) ultimately murders him using a paper shredder \u2014 drawing on shared history between characters and real-life ties between the actors. Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s frequent sidekick, Andy Richter, appears instead as Scotty\u2019s sidekick Mickey, adding further layers of inside-late-night humor.<\/p>\n One line lands hard given the timing: Scotty announces, \u201cWe\u2019re going to miss this show when it\u2019s gone.\u201d Apparently, that was in the original script, written before<\/span><\/em> Colbert\u2019s show cancellation was made public. Elsbeth<\/span><\/em> creator Jonathan Tolins says<\/a> the script was always planned to be bold, and though real life intersected in uncanny ways, the episode wasn\u2019t rewritten to reflect it.<\/span><\/p>\n The guest spot gives Colbert an intriguing new chapter: as he transitions<\/a> away from nightly hosting, he steps into fiction, satire and dramatic irony all at once. It\u2019s a telling move \u2014 leveraging real turmoil in the late-night world into layered, self-referential art.<\/p>\n The post Stephen Colbert plays villainous host against type on Elsbeth<\/a> appeared first on Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the Season 3 premiere of Elsbeth. 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