Hamilton's Christopher Jackson Keeps His Cool as Local News Anchors Wig Out: 'That's Life in the Damn Circus'

Let’s go ahead and give Broadway favorite Christopher Jackson the key to the city after getting through this truly bizarre local news segment. Hamilton’s George Washington stopped by the Vegas buffet of crazy that is Fox’s Good Day New York, and he remained remarkably cool as Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto did the following:

1. Conduct the interview while wearing colonial garb
2. Consistently interrupt him
3. Imply that the general public was apprehensive about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s abilities to write a hip-hop musical
4. Genuinely not seem to understand how a hip-hop musical about American history could be something other than “mockery”
5. Sign off with a freestyle rap joking about drive-by shootings

Again, we can’t stress enough how well Jackson conducted himself in spite of all this. Later, he took to Twitter to write, “That’s life in the damn circus… #notsurprised #speechless.” Take a look at the seven-minute (?!) segment below if you can—if only for Jackson’s comments on the show and his impressively unfazed demeanor. Hamilton is currently playing the Richard Rodgers Theatre.