Colbert tells lawmakers farm work 'really hard'

And he expressed befuddlement that more Americans aren't clamoring to
"begin an exciting career" in farm work. A straight-faced Colbert
testified in character Friday at a House hearing on illegal farm workers. He
offered what he called his "vast" knowledge of the subject after
spending a day on a vegetable farm in New York. Colbert described his ordeal of
stooping to pick beans as "really, really hard." As he put it:
"It turns out, and I did not know this, most soil is at ground
level." He pleaded with Congress to do something about illegal
workers because "I am not going back out there." After his day on a
farm, Colbert says, "I don't even want to watch Green Acres again."