Tuesday's segment climaxed with Ruffin telling Meyers that he needs to pray to "Black Jesus" as he nervously stuttered his way through a joke about Black movie-goers. "I got it. Here we go.

Black Jesus, which features a black actor in a wig ... "When I was a senior in high school, in 1974, prayer was a part of our society, there was an acknowledgment of God," he said.

And that was way back in 1974. The concept of a Black Jesus isn’t controversial to Lomax. When she prays, the Jesus she’s talking to is Black like her. But echoing Samuel, she said ...