Thursday night was a truly historic night for America, as Hillary Clinton accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Stephen Colbert—not, we should be clear, “Stephen Colbert”—was especially excited, though a little bummed that the women who helped build this country more than two centuries ago are not around to have witnessed the moment for themselves.
Thank goodness for Broad City’s Ilana Grazer and Abbi Jacobson—or rather, Josephine Henley and Abitha Whitmore, delegates from the Second Continental Congress who were interviewed by Colbert from the year 1776. He happily informed them of the news that in 2016, we finally have a female presidential nominee. Their response was less than thrilled however—“Get the butter out of the barn!” exclaimed Josephine. “Are you telling me it takes us 240 years to get a female president?” Yeah, we’re disappointed in us, too.
