Philip Seymour Hoffman appeared on The Daily Show last night, in support of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, and the most interesting portion of his conversation with host Jon Stewart centered around the institutionalized sexism… err, gender-biased hierarchy of the Catholic church, which comprises the backdrop against which the film’s 1960s-set tale of possible sexual abuse unfolds. Hoffman said that was difficult to wrap his mind around, and so the scene where he subtly usurps the power of Meryl Streep’s headmistress nun by sitting in her chair freaked him out and gave him pause because, as he pointed out, “That’s not a nice thing to do — then she won’t like me!”