Colbert, dude...there are black people in Minnesota, 208,000 of them to be precise!
Nonetheless his joke that Al Franken (our newly elected Senator and noted SNL alum) was black by Minnesota standards was hilarious. I literally laughed so hard that my stomach hurt.
Watch it - starts around 4:15
I went to school down south and every time I told someone where I was from they would lean in and whisper the question "There are black people in Minnesota?" To which I would answer "Yes."
