W. Kamau Bell, a new CNN host, joined Don Lemon on his program on Tuesday to poke fun of the Iowa State Fair. Lemon touted Bell's "visit to one of the whitest places in America." The former Current TV correspondent, who hosted a show on the FX network named Totally Biased, cracked that people at the fair were "taking pictures of me. I don't think it's because I'm famous. It's because I'm a black dude." [video below]

Bell, a "socio-political comedian," led his pre-recorded segment from the annual event (in a state that's 91.3 percent white, according to the 2010 census) with his pictures remark, and continued with clips from his encounters with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley. Bell asked Huckabee, "I'm a black dude from Berkeley, California – sell me; sell me." He also pointed out that O'Malley has "had his own problems connecting with black voters....So, I'm going to try to help him out by teaching him a black man hand shake."

The new CNN personality spent the rest of the segment walking around the livestock portion of the fair (where he found "Ku Klux lambs") and sampling the "inappropriately deep fried" food. At the end of the pre-recorded segment, Lemon turned to Bell and asked, "In all seriousness, what was it like being at the fair as, probably, the only – one of the only black men there?" He joked, "Well, no, there were seven I was told. Everybody said there were seven black people in Iowa. We just weren't allowed to hang out together. Apparently, there's an ordinance against that." He added that "they're all very nice people. They eat a lot of that food. That food slows you down. And they need to start to look at things like Jeb Bush and go, that makes sense. Donald Trump, that makes sense."

After Lemon asked about if there was "support for Trump" at the state fair (the new host labeled the billionaire the "the Kanye West of Iowa"), the anchor ended the interview. Bell signed off with a joking "miniature black power fist."

Back in October 2012, the former FX personality mocked Mitt Romney on CNN's Starting Point program, and gushed that President Obama is "like a Swiss army knife. There's rock star Barack. There's Professor Barack. There's singing Barack. There's sexy Barack."

The full transcript of W. Kamau Bell segment from Tuesday's CNN Tonight: