Watch Tom Hanks murder Stephen Colbert in gloriously silly Halloween skit

Costumes and puns galore.
By Sam Haysom  on 
Two men in costume stand in a green lit room, staring at the camera.
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If you're going to have a movie legend like Tom Hanks on your show, it'd be almost rude not to get him acting a bit.

In the Late Show Halloween sketch above (the latest in the show's "Too Much Exposition Theatre" segment) Hanks stars opposite host Stephen Colbert, playing an ominous professor planning the murder and head removal of his lab partner over a past adulterous affair.

Come for the costumes and bad puns, stay for the aggressively fast camera changes.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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