Utah's Temple Square kissing incident sparked news headlines around the world. Now, comedy writers are taking over, as the event inspired a comedy sketch aired Tuesday night on TV's "Colbert Report."

The July 9 arrest of Derek Jones and Matt Aune, who were detained by security guards after kissing on the Mormon Temple grounds, inspired the episode. The incident sparked national attention and led to "kiss-in" protests around the country.

In September, Utah gay actor Charles Lynn Frost and his partner -- dressed as members of the Village People -- were filmed passionately making out on the same grounds for a comedy sketch filmed for the Comedy Central show, which aired during Tuesday night's episode.

"We ran to our car before we could get arrested," Frost said about that day of shooting, which occurred in broad daylight in the middle of a work week. "But there was no sign of church security anywhere."

Jones and Aune are interviewed in the sketch, as is BYU property law professor John Fee who explains why the church was within its legal rights when its security guards tussled with the pair. The professor emphasizes that Jones and Aune were trespassing on private property. Frost, dressed as a construction worker from the 1970s disco group, and his partner, dressed as the group's cowboy, then walk onto the plaza and kiss, portraying what the sketch characterizes as the "Mormonization" of what happened on July 9.

"What's funny is, here I am dressed as a construction worker and there was a whole group of real construction workers behind me," said Frost, who was hired by Comedy Central for the sketch. "I'm sure people were looking out their windows watching. We saw temple workers, we saw construction workers all over."

Sources involved with the filming said producers of the "Colbert" segment got permission from LDS officials to shoot on the temple grounds, but filmmakers didn't say they were shooting a parody of the incident.

Church officials declined to comment Tuesday, or to confirm they approved the filming.

Later in the Comedy Central segment, Jones and Aune were interviewed in their apartment and asked how they would feel if Mormons burst into their apartment and kissed.

Just then, two more male actors dressed as Mormon missionaries burst into the living room and begin making out on the couch. "We just start going at it -- mad, passionate kissing," said Troy Williams, a KRCL radio producer who played one of the missionaries. "It should be very funny."

Frost and Williams created the locally popular radio and stage character of Sister Dottie S. Dixon, a Mormon housewife with a gay son.