When Stephen Colbert was transitioning from his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" to his new gig as the host of "The Late Show," the comedian (and his "Colebeard") appeared on Mindy Kaling's TV show "The Mindy Project" as a Catholic priest named Father Michael O'Donnell. Kaling stopped by "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday night where she revealed she did not think the comedian behaved very professionally on the set of her show.
"I'm very fond of you, OK? I did not think you were very professional when you came on my show," Kaling told Colbert.
"I was between gigs. I was just footloose and fancy free," he replied.
To prove her point, Kaling brought with her a series of clips in which Colbert attempted to say his lines, but the comedian kept on breaking and could not get through the scene without laughing. The part that kept on messing the host up was when his character had to give a eulogy for one of his deceased Catholic priests.
"I thought you didn't handle it that well," Kaling said of Colbert laughing during the scene. "It's a very somber occasion."
"Wait a second! It's your fault," Colbert told her. "It's your damn script."
"It was so funny that you couldn't take it," Kaling joked.
In response to Kaling's clip of Colbert being "unprofessional," the host showed his own clip from the episode that he guest starred in where Kaling acted in the same manner.
"It's your damn show and you weren't the most professional person either, because I brought a clip of my own," Colbert said. "It was not in the script how you reacted, but I am describing you without knowing it and this is your reaction, unprofessionally."
"I have no recollection," the actress said of the clip.
In the scene, Colbert's character referred to Kaling's as "pear-shaped with small breasts," before the actress leapt across a couch and hit him.
"At no place in the script did it say, 'Mindy scratches the priest's eyes out,'" Colbert said.
"Yeah, you're not supposed to attack your co-stars on my show," Kaling agreed.
"The Mindy Project" returns on April 12 on Hulu.
Check out the full clip of Colbert and Kaling exchange embarrassing clips of each other below:
