'Late Show': Yes, Central Jersey does exist, say Phil Murphy and Jon Stewart

Kaitlyn Kanzler | NorthJersey

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Listen up North and South Jersey residents. Central Jersey does in fact exist.

During Stephen Colbert's most recent show, he used famed Jersey icon and former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart and Gov. Phil Murphy to determine whether or not the "mystical kingdom" (as Murphy called it) exists.

Stewart, posing as the Chief Supreme Justice of the state, said he grew up in Central Jersey, therefore it exists.

While not taking a stand on a sub versus a hoagie or pork roll versus Taylor ham, Murphy, who is from Middletown in Monmouth County, agreed — it exists and it was "definitely, maybe Narnia."

It has long been debated whether or not Central Jersey exists and, if it did, where the cutoff would be. Many New Jerseyians believe that it doesn't exists while those actually from Central Jersey would vehemently disagree. There is a bank named after the region after all. And it has its own high school sports division.

When Colbert spoke to Claude Brodesser-Akner of NJ Advance Media said that area of the state was made up.

"We know Central Jersey was invented so people don't have to say they're from South Jersey," Brodesser-Akner said.

Jay Feinman, a law professor at Rutgers University used Bon Jovi's iconic song "Livin' on a Prayer" as proof Central Jersey doesn't exist.

"In 'Livin' on a Prayer,' it says 'we're halfway there,'" Feinman points out. "Not a third of the way there."

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