Dave Chappelle tells Michelle Obama: ‘It’s insufferable what’s happening right now’

Dave Chappelle says the headlines get “more appalling” each day, telling Michelle Obama that the current political climate “doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to end.”

The comedian appeared on “IMO,” Obama’s podcast with her brother, Craig Robinson, in an episode released Wednesday.

Asked by Obama about how he felt about “where we are now in society,” Chappelle replied performing at comedy clubs around the country has given him some insight into the national mood.

“It’s never really been quite like this before, where everyone feels like we’re on the precipice of some amazing change,” Chappelle said. 

“Every day the new cycle is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to end. And every week, I learn some new words, like ‘Strait of Hormuz,'” Chappelle, 52, said. 

“It’s such an avalanche that it is fun, even for me now, to watch comedians contextualize this stuff,” he said. 

But taping the episode with Obama and Robinson in his community of Yellow Springs, Ohio, Chappelle said, gave him hope. 

“My community coming together and in tough times — our family, we have had tremendous losses recently, people in our family passed away — and the community picked us up. That made me hopeful,” Chappelle told........

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