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MARY REICHARD, HOST: A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave, and well, the jokes write themselves. (We’re Protestants over here but we can still have fun.)

Late night hosts had a ball imagining the new pontiff Leo the Fourteenth as an average Joe from the Windy City! Here’s Jimmy Fallon:

FALLON: It means we're one step closer to Deep Dish communion wafers.

Stephen Colbert did his best impersonation:

COLBERT: From now on, the Pope's going to sound like this: “Hey there. It's your buddy, Leo, the deep dish, Papa.”

There’s still appropriate reverence in all the fun, because no matter how he says mass, he’ll no doubt end by saying:

COLBERT: Da prayers!

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