Lewis Black stopped by the “Morning Joe” set Tuesday morning to talk about his new Broadway show, “Black to the Future,” and the 2016 election.
“I think the pivotal moment for me was the moment that I was watching CNN, which I watch to get a good sense of what it’s like when I get a stroke,” Black began the segment.
“So I was watching it, and Sarah Palin was in the foreground and Trump was in the background,” he continued. “And I thought, ‘how can I make this funnier? What is my job now? How do you satirize what is already satiric?'”
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“This is the point in time, as far as I’m concerned, where we the American people reached the point where reality and satire finally intersected. That’s it.”
At this point, Black become visibly agitated.
“You guys discuss this every day,” he shouted waving his hands. “This is fiction! We are living in fictional times.”
“THIS would be better in a book if you woke up and read — LISTEN TO ME!,” he shouted at host Mika Brzezinski.
“I’m listening!” responded a flustered Brzezinski.
Black concluded by explaining, “if you woke up and read this in a book you would say, ‘ah, that’s a great book.'”