Benedict Cumberbatch turns the election into a scary bedtime story

Find yourself terrified by the 2016 presidential election? You're not the only one.

Allow the dulcet tones of Benedict Cumberbatch and his exquisite British accent to entertain you with the "Tale of the 2016 Presidential Election," which he reads as a bedtime story to James Corden on The Late Late Show. The story has everything: a wizard, a scary forest, a lady and a scary monster.

“This orange monster had somehow already swallowed six other monsters in the forest – a prince named Jeb, a sleeping beauty named Ben, and a Texas senator named Ted,” Cumberbatch explained. “Still, nobody expected the orange monster to rule the land because even though his head was very, very big, his wisdom was very, very tiny and he has tiny, tiny baby hands.”

Hear the story for yourself below.

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