Night time Courtroom might have already aired its common fall finale with the wait nonetheless on for Melissa Rauch’s reunion with extra Large Bang Idea vets, however that wasn’t the top of the sitcom in NBC’s 2024 TV schedule earlier than the 2025 TV schedule begins. Abby and Co. are set to have fun the vacations as solely they will: with homicide thriller shenanigans and enjoyable visitor stars. Former Brooklyn 9-9 forged member Joe Lo Truglio and Mad TV alum Andy Daly will seem within the particular episode, they usually spoke with CinemaBlend about their wacky characters and their Brooklyn 9-9 reunion.
The particular episode after the common fall finale known as “Feliz NaviDead,” and I would say that pun on the well-known “Feliz Navidad” Christmas carol is proof sufficient that some festive hijinks are on the way in which on December 17. Once I spoke with Joe Lo Truglio and Andy Daly forward of the published, the previous previewed what brings his character into the combo:
There is a little bit of a homicide thriller that is occurred on the courthouse, and I play a detective that is are available in to resolve the thriller, Detective Kratz, and I am there and one of many suspects that we’ve got is performed by Andy Daly, who’s completely great and hilarious in it. So I performed a detective that is come to type of remedy this thriller in the course of the holidays. There’s been a physique that is been found. I am there to determine why it is there.
Enjoying a detective on a multi-cam sitcom with a stay studio viewers is new for Joe Lo Truglio, however followers of Brooklyn 9-9 – which ended on NBC lower than a yr and a half earlier than Night time Courtroom premiered in 2023 – have actually seen him enjoying a cop earlier than because of eight seasons as Detective Boyle.
The actor additionally performed loads of regulation enforcement characters earlier than this one, starting from on Sizzling Frosty (streaming now with a Netflix subscription) in 2024 to on Regulation & Order method again in 2000. Once I famous to Lo Truglio that he is an knowledgeable at enjoying fictional cops by this level in his profession, he responded with some extra examples:
The film Paul [as an] FBI agent. Reno 911. There are many regulation enforcement roles and terrific. I like the work. Possibly it is that I am Irish/Italian from New York, and I’ve that look. [laughs] Possibly that is why I am getting so lots of the roles. However they’re at all times enjoyable to play, and so I am comfortable to do it.
As for Andy Daly, the prolific voice actor with current credit on animated reveals like Large Metropolis Greens, The Nice North, and American Dad! undoubtedly is not enjoying a cop on Night time Courtroom. After joking that every one he may preview was that the vacation episode “takes place in a court docket at night time,” he shared that his character was “arrested as a result of he refused to depart a celebration,” and he’d been employed to be on the celebration. Daly elaborated:
He is employed to be there to steer a form of homicide thriller celebration. However as in all probability occurs so much with these homicide thriller events, the homicide was not being solved, and my character wouldn’t go away and he wouldn’t break character till the thriller was solved. He is simply actually tremendous dedicated to his job. Like, ‘I do not break character and go away till the thriller will get solved.’ And so he would not go away till he needed to be arrested for trespassing on the celebration, and that is why he’s hauled in entrance of the choose in Night time Courtroom. As a result of the thriller that he was employed to conduct has not been solved, despite the fact that he is been dragged right into a court docket, he’s nonetheless in character and nonetheless refusing to cease.
Discuss dedication from Andy Daly’s character! Based mostly on the feedback from each visitor stars, the homicide thriller looks as if it may contain each actual homicide requiring a detective and a pretend homicide that hooked a particularly devoted actor. Regardless of the case, it is in all probability much more than Abby and Co. bargained for therefore near the vacations!
A much less widely-known reality than that Night time Courtroom can get bonkers for vacation episodes is that this may not be the primary time that Joe Lo Truglio and Andy Daly share the display screen. With Lo Truglio as a part of the Brooklyn 9-9 ensemble from the beginning, Daly guest-starred in a Season 4 episode referred to as “Cop-Con” again in 2017, which you’ll be able to stream now with a Peacock subscription or on Netflix. As regards to working with Lo Truglio once more for NBC’s present sitcom, Daly stated:
Joe and I are buddies from Brooklyn 9-9. But additionally, I believe from earlier than that, he is only a man that I do know and see round a bunch, and we’re simply guys who know one another. [laughs] I used to be so comfortable. Actually, they instructed me he was going to be enjoying the opposite half once I was provided the function, and it was one of many causes that I felt extra comfy doing it. I assumed, ‘Oh, all my scenes are with anyone that I do know already fairly properly.’ In order that was nice. It is actually good whenever you’re getting in as a visitor actor, only for every week, to have individuals there that you realize and that you realize you have got a simple rapport with. We had loads of enjoyable. I used to be very grateful that every one my scenes have been with Joe.
For his half, Joe Lo Truglio echoed Andy Daly’s sentiments concerning the perks of guest-starring reverse anyone he’d already labored with, and solely had good issues to say about his fellow Night time Courtroom newcomer’s strategy to comedy. He stated:
Andy is such a humorous man. Specifically, his very dry supply and performances I’ve at all times been a fan of. To work with him once more was such a deal with. It is at all times good to work with those who you realize, as a result of immediately there is a shorthand and a chemistry there that you just typically want whenever you solely have every week to do that present, and also you’re type of thrown right into a a lot larger present that is been going for some time. So I felt like I had a companion in crime, actually, with Andy on this episode.
Fortuitously, followers do not have an excessive amount of longer to attend to see Night time Courtroom‘s homicide thriller unfold with Joe Lo Truglio and Andy Daly as visitor stars. The vacation episode of NBC’s hit sitcom airs on Tuesday, December 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET. It will certainly be the final new episode of the yr, and you’ll count on Night time Courtroom again within the new yr on January 14.
You may as well revisit previous episodes of each Night time Courtroom and Brooklyn 9-9 streaming on Peacock. In a enjoyable twist, Lo Truglio and Daly’s arrivals occur lower than a yr after fellow 9-9 alum Melissa Fumero got here on board – to cite the actress finest recognized for enjoying Amy Santiago – as a “actually additional” character.