Life Without Writers: Murder Unscripted

For a fictional glimpse into a world without writers, you can't do much better than the "Murder Unscripted" sketch which pits Dean Winters and Kathryn Erbe (as an "impossibly hot detective team") against a crime they can't solve... without the help of a writer, anyway.

Chris Noth, Zeljko Ivanek (Damages' own Ray Fiske!), and Eric Bogosian show up to offer their own possible solutions to his baffling crime in a library.

My favorite moment? Erbe's thoughts that the crime echoes that in another episode, in which the mom did it as Winters tries to puzzle out if she meant that mom also committed this crime. Also rather telling: Ivanek's gruff DA at a literal loss for words when presented by Winters with a tangle of rope as a possible murder weapon.