Ed Wasserman, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, talks with comedian and friend Lewis Black. (UC Berkeley Public Affairs photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)
Lewis Black may be a native of Washington, D.C., but judging from a recent conversation between the political satirist and students at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, he doesn't have any more of an explanation than anyone else about Donald Trump's election as president of the United States. "I had this faith that American would not accept this - coming out of his mouth,” said Black on Monday. That faith, said the stand-up comedian, actor and author, has been shattered. Living through the aftermath of the election, he said, has been akin to the trauma felt post-9/11. "We live in fictional times,” Black quipped, adding that if someone had written about what happened in the last 18 months before it happened, it would have been "one funny ing book. Today, no so much.
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