Chris Rock Recounts His Superawkward Encounter with Michelle Obama
Just a couple of weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Barack Obama hosted a final party in the White House and invited practically every single famous person who he had been friendly with over his eight years in office. Chris Rock was one of the guests, and as he recounted to Jimmy Fallon, he wound up having a pretty awkward moment with first lady Michelle Obama.
“You’re sitting around, you’re meeting people, and you mingle,” Rock said on The Tonight Show. “First you mingle. And at one point I’m — it’s me and Michelle Obama, just talking. I’m not really supposed to be alone with Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is like, ‘I don’t know what we’re going to do, the country,’ and we’re talking about elections and stuff. ‘I don’t know — I don’t know what’s going to happen. This is such a crazy time.’ And I go, ‘you’ll be aight.’
“And then I said, you know, you get any kind of job you want, I mean — The View, The [Real] Housewives of Atlanta,’” Rock continued. “Michelle Obama looks at me and was like, ‘I was talking about the country. I wasn’t talking about me.’ …
“And then she goes, ‘Oprah, I’ve got to talk to you!’ And she runs — she runs away from me. And then I’m feeling dumb. I’m like, OK, I got to find some people that’s dumb as me. .. Then I see Charles Barkley, I’m like ahh!”
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