Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't be attending Monday's border-violence hearing with local and national political figures because of a scheduling conflict.

That conflict's name? Stephen Colbert.

Arpaio will appear on the stone-faced comic's right-wing parody show Monday in an episode that airs that same evening.

Colbert's staff members contacted Arpaio about being on the show following Al Sharpton's threats to exert pressure on the sheriff to resign this summer.

Arpaio said he'd only seen the show once before- when the sheriff accidentally flipped channels from his own reality show- but he had no concerns about handling the comic.

"I was on Larry King (Thursday) night," he said.

"The Colbert Report" airs Monday at 8:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.