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Roy Wood Jr.

lines on the record: 62
first: 2023-05-04
most recent: 2023-05-04
sittings or episodes: 1
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“So, yeah, the road is where I breathe because the daily show is where I have to like really. Do surgery to figure out how to make this serious thing a chuckle.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No one with a good haircut has ever shot people News anchors are always mean to the weatherman. I hate the fact that in monster movies, whenever someone falls in love with a monster, they always make it a white woman. That's not fair to white women. Beauty and the beast swamp thing. They made you have sex with Shrek.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the thing that's interesting that for as serious as you get at a correspondence dinner about all of these topics and all of this stuff. Sometimes I just want to be silly. Hang on. I have, I literally have my set list from Phoenix. Anyone who doesn't have a good haircut, I assume is a mass shooter. I don't trust people who don't have good haircuts.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you know, when the comics were shut down and not able to eat, you know, the community came together and I would imagine the same thing is going to happen within the guild.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, the daily show is stopped down just like, you know, the rest of late night in New York City. So I don't know what the plans are, you know, beyond that with the show, but I know the show right now, you know, they're locking step and standing with the Gill. For me, I'm back on the road for right now just doing stand-up comedy dates. You know, I'm touring again. I'm in a blessed position because I'm a multi-phen it, but a lot of writers are not. So, you know, I think the next thing we're going to start trying to focus on within the guild is just ways to figure out ways to be, to support the writers. It's no different. The same thing we did when the pandemic shut down and we got what comedy gives back and we raise money for stand up comedians who couldn't go on the road.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think that the cause is just, I think that you have to give people a living wage for the work that they do or give them the freedom to go and work other places concurrently. Know and not shortchange”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's off the internet now. I'm sure you can find it on somebody's page, but they had a Tom Brady AI stand-up comedy video. Where AI wrote all of Tom Brady's material and AI Tom Brady performed it. And some of those jokes were good. I was like, oh my goodness. Drake weekend.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If the studio is going to use AI to write a script or create the framework, and then you're just bringing in a writer to do punch up, then we're right back in the same place. Writers ask for more money back in 07 during that strike and they got more money and then the studios countered by producing less episodes of television. Well played. But I am a member of the writer's skills. So, you know, I stand with the Gill 1000% on this, but I am very afraid of The potential devolution of Televised product on the other side of this. I just would pray that we don't get, you know, they say the rise of reality. Well, Rise of reality was birth from the last rider strike. And I think that there is something to be said about the human experience being told by humans.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, oh, but I can't tell you my show viewership because my 11 herbs and spices is proprietary and my competitor will know, okay, well, then you get no more scripts for a little while. Also, I think something that will probably come to a head on the next agreement is once we see how AI starts to evolve. Yeah.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just think that there has to be transparency between the streamers and the GILs on. What is being watched? Who's watching it? You can't pay somebody for a hit show the same rate of pay in residuals as a non hit show. That's not what would happen in the broadcast world. And I think every couple of years as we see an evolution in... Technology, there's more hiding of the hands of the money because no one understands it. Right stream experience.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm probably a little more blue collar than Trevor, so I'm just going to have a kid. Yeah, I'm gonna have a carry out window. We're adding pizza. I know this used to be a fine dining establishment, and it's that over there. Over here. Pizza”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Daily Show has a framework. Trevor augmented it a little bit. If this was an Italian restaurant under John Stewart, then Trevor made it Italian fusion and added a couple of different shaped noodles. But it's still Italian.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know Trevor wanted some flex to do a lot of other stuff. The one difference between me and Trevor is that I have a child. I can't globetrot on a 100 City World Tour. I mean, I could, but that would be the only thing I need to be doing. No, it doesn't bother me in that sense. For me, the main thing is figuring out the show that I would want to make and just making sure that that matches with the show that they want to make. And for as long as we have a match there, I think we're in a good place. Because if it's not Daily Show, it's going to be somewhere else. I mean, there's plenty of other places that I hopefully would be able to run my mouth, even if the Daily Show doesn't come calling. And the responsibility is going to be the same in those places and probably even more tougher because there's no framework in place. Right.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would be different for you, correct? If you got this job, that would be something I would have to lean into a little more. Even more so than I do with my standup, because my standup, I can laugh off empathy or I can throw a silly joke in there so that we don't get too deep. Too much into a one man show. There's going to be days where there is nothing funny. None of this is funny. We still have to make a show and talk about it. And those days, that's when you lean into what everybody is feeling versus me going, no, you need to know about the fact that the chemical train derailments in Ohio, there's a ton of trains just carrying trash chemicals that are just chilling in random neighborhoods and the trains haven't moved in months. I call them cancer hubs. They're just all these different cancer hubs around the country.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Police reform. Police bias piece I did with Jordan Cle That one was pretty fun. That was a good time. That was one that I felt like checked a couple of boxes. The Chicago piece as well. I wasn't on this show that day, but I really loved how Trevor handled the Filando Castile issue in Minneapolis. And, you know, when that verdict came down and not guilty and... And the level of anger that was being felt nationally. And I think that's like the biggest difference, you know, just in watching Trevor a little bit and preparing for my guest host week. Think the bigger difference is that correspondence at no point are they required to tap into emotion You're just allowed to be chaos agent and get out of there. But as a host to a lot of degrees, you are to be emotionally an emotional mirror sometimes.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what is that other than just a comedian talking to a constituent about a thing and it's compelling because we're all connected under these same laws and actions and chaos and things that are happening around us. So we've always been curious about what other people are going through. I don't think social media has removed that from our psyche”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think you can make it funny that person might not be funny, but that's my job to be funny. It's their job to bring the facts. And then you still have correspondence and fill pieces and everything else that feels like the news. But I just, at some point, I know whatever program that I'm that I'm giving to quarterback. Want to involve conversations with real people more into that fold because I think that's one of the things that's missing from news is people being heard. I mean, even if you look at stand-up comedy, which I consider a form of journalism You're reporting on the world or yourself, it's to drink minimum or whatever. But if you look at a lot of the stand-up clips that go viral right now. Half of them are crowd work”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so if we sat for three or four minutes and spoke with the legit, like that's the thing I loved about radio. I was doing mornings in Birmingham when we had a Trayvon Martin rally. And we had, you know, and everybody was wearing their hoodies and show up downtown in the civil rights district. And we're going to, you know, like everybody was doing nationally. And the next day, we had such a real and raw conversation about whether or not, as a parent, would you allow your child to wear a hoodie? Is such a simple and clean question just about the state of race in this country. We took calls for three hours. Now, I can't do that for a whole half hour in a show, but that conversation, that thought as a parent, are you giving your child freedom or are you making them a target Based on what they wear”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but let the media tell it like most of the time when we talk to regular people, it's man on the street quick high and buys, you know? Like it's 60 seconds.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Number one, it would be that like it would definitely be more conversations with people that are affected by the issues instead of conversations with the people that are legislating them.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How they feel about it. And that makes me as curious as talking to an elected official. So, you know, I think there's a place for that in political satire somewhere, you know, figuring out how to rejigger the daily show just a little bit. I think no matter who the host is, there's going to have to be some creative restructuring.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What is national that wasn't first local? Just a matter of taking the national issue and boiling it down to something that everyone else can see at a personal level. And to me, that's better because now you're putting a face to it. You're putting a personality to it. Like that's a much easier lift. To answer the question, yeah, I think state and local is important. When you look at what happened in the Tennessee legislature a couple of weeks ago when they were expelling members and the protesters were coming in, Would have loved to have been able to talk to one of the protesters. Much as I respect the two Justins as I like to call them. I would rather talk to a constituent.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cracking a couple drinks. Yeah, Trump is always going to be there. But if we have a chance to go out and actually do something with someone or see something that's going on I don't know. That's just always been important to me. I'm sure part of that is from my time in local radio. And we have the mayor once a month. And that for 14 years, you learn local politics. You absolutely do.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's where all of the stuff really affects you. Like, politics is state and local. Like, that's the thing that matters the most. If there's a story that I hate, I haven't been able to get to yet, it would be the one happening in the Black Belt in Alabama. We're around Selma. We go to Selma every year to celebrate the big voting rights. All right, hip hip hooray, but also on every one of those houses in that city and within that, I say, 50 mile radius, there's raw sewage backing up into the front yards every time it rains and it is environmentally corrosive and cancerous to the people who live there. No reporter that's going to go do that, but if I can go down there Exchange for talking to some people that are trying to make some change to me, that's better than just following another document story.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You start noticing though how many more stories are just wire reports. I would find myself having to go to two and three different cities a day just to find a local story. You know, to read six or seven local stories. It's very difficult. So, thankfully, enough of the producers at the Daily Show are able to help find stuff and more so find people that are either for change or against change.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I thought about before I guess hosted was Not being able to go and like you know with the news there's to me there's two stories there's what everyone is talking about versus what you should be talking about And so, a habit that I picked up in college, they would give us a quiz, I think three days a week. You would get a quiz on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and the local news section of the Tallahassee Democrat. When I was at Florida. And that habit just stayed with me as I got older. And what I noticed once I got to the Daily Show, the deal was every day just read a local paper from a different city just to see what's going on. That's my morning routine.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. I mean, there was part of us going, oh my Lord, we have to change the script. Keep in mind, two weeks before the Trump arrest happened. And we had jokes written from a perspective of will he might go to jail. And then it's, oh, he's going. Oh my God, he got fingerprinted. Okay, let's rewrite all of the jokes.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're different. The firings are for different reasons, though You know, on the surface, you could say that Don was fired for, as they say, in sports, conduct detrimental to the team. Right. But when you look at a shift in CNN's ideology, there's no way Don Lemon's gonna just let certain right-wingers come in the air and not swing a bat at him. It costs the company almost a billion dollars And then on top of all of that, we have all of the other lawsuit knick-knack stuff. That was the other Rupert Murdoch joke. This joke got cut because there was too much backstory that I need to pre install into the audience's brain. But there was a rumor that Rupert's fianc ⁇, like Tucker, and that's why he canceled the show, which makes Rupert Murdoch the pettiest person in the history of petty. And we say nothing but respect to you, Rupert.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think it's fair that we should give credit where credit is due. Tucker Carlson is the first host to get fired from Fox News for something that's only partially about how he treats women. Progress. He shattered the asshole ceiling. Speaking of assholes, Don Lemon is out of a job.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you just hired him during George Floyd So, they haven't been there long enough to have any real seniority So that part of it, like which creates a huge blind spot for marginalized issues. The idea that all right Don Lemon was fired. Okay, cool. Whatever misconduct behind the camera, fine. But on camera from time to time, Don Lemon helped people's feet to the fire who needed their feet held to the fire. How are you going to replace that? I don't care that Trump is on CNN. What I care about is if y'all just let him slide and don't try to ask him anything real.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So now your newsroom has a blind spot to everything else that's happening to minorities. So as much as we celebrate diversity, diversity is usually the first thing to go.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it's scandalous. And to me, the media is so locked in on covering of the scandals that let's not forget the scandal that's happening within your organizations. And it's dire straits. And I don't have the place within what's supposed to be a majority funny speech to really dig into the economics of the newsroom, but the base level facts are more staff cuts are being made than pay cuts at the top. So it's worth mentioning because that part of it to me is not fair. You know, another part that we ended up leaving out just for time is just how a lot of the staffing cuts happen at the local level or they start with minority faces or people that cover marginalized issues, right?”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Issue a good media is that most people can't afford that. All the essential fair and nuanced reporting is all stuck behind a paywall. Can't afford rent not healthy food. They can't afford an education they damn sure can't afford to pay for the truth.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But some of it is rooted in portraying cranky people, but he's cranky about things that aren't necessarily these Uber political things. It's why is the McDonald's shake so thick you can't get it through the straw? Then it's a five minute rant about the vein in your head that almost bursts. But it's the same I like to try and do on stage.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because I'm not angry. I could be. A lot of people are, but. Choose not to lean into anger for the most part. For me, at least it's a wasted emotion that doesn't help me think of solutions or handle anything levely. But, you know, early on in my comedy, you know, I modeled myself a lot after, you know, Chris Rock, George Carlin. Lewis Black a little later on. Sinbad is probably my holy grail. You know, when you really go back and you look at Sinbad, Sinbad is crazy.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely try to convey information. I can't give you new information, then I'm going to try and give you a new way of looking at old information. So that's pretty much where my comedy and the daily show stuff intersects.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was the funny guy, but what I did was try to do community involvement. My thing on the radio was just giving voice to people in the community to come on and give them a place to amplify their messages. Because my comedy started early when I was 19, you just don't have the maturation of a world view yet. Wasn't until I hit my early 30s that my comedy started shifting into something that matched my father's ideology. Know a lot more. But when I started, you know, I was just a kid fresh out of college with Fart jokes and my room, I hate when my roommate drinks. Or drinks part of my food, you know, just stuff like that.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, a little bit to a degree. I mean, my father was hard news journalism. He was an embedded reporter. Pretty much every major conflict you can name from the 50s until the 70s South African riots all the way up to Korean War. And when he wasn't deployed doing that, he was running a black news network. Now, me by comparison, I was on the radio giving away Jodicey tickets.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which it will. I'm not sure for the best, but Gail King will be there, so she'll keep it on track. But this idea that everybody is all the way on one side of the room and everybody's all the way on the other side, it's just that's not real life.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that a lot of us are a little bit more loose on things than we think, but we are sometimes publicly required to be a little more extreme on things simply because that's what gets the viewers or the vote. A lot of ways the media is tied, they're kind of, you know, inextricably tied to the same level of commitment that a politician is. That's why there's so much of an uproar over CNN with the Donald Trump Town Hall. It's because so many people that are CNN loyalists are going, well, what are you doing? That's not what we're supposed. We hate them. And CNN is like, nah, we're going to try to have some conservative views on here. And we're going to, which was one of the jokes, we're going to. Fire down lemon and give a show to Charles Bar That shit shake things”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the people who say that this dinner is irrelevant are the people that have already decided that those people are terrible people and there's nothing redemptive about them and there's no way to repair the relationship and I am entrenched in what I believe and that's leftists and people on the right who look at life that way And that's not what life is, man. Life is nuanced. People are nuanced. And you're not going to agree with everything.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's huge. And so there seems to be a thawing of some of the Republican extremists starting to come back into this space and come to this dinner. I think it has an opportunity to 100% still be something that's relevant.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. So the joke angle was something in the ballpark of everyone that's run with Trump is either in prison or in this room. Like that was the joke And then we go through the people That were all Trump surrogates, but trying to write that joke at a table, at a banquet, while a television program is happening. We were just like, don't worry about it. But I think if people saw that. If you see Caitlin Jenner in the same room as Lester Hope. Maybe you'll think a little less my side because know media and politics they divide the country but the people in the country don't kick it in the same woman with the people they hate but they need to understand these people that you're riding so hard for They're kind of cool with the other side.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it does. Here's what I say. I think it could help create some degree of healing of divisive fissures that we have politically in this country. One thing that I hate that I wasn't able to do because I did not know they were coming until I got the text that they were there was Mike Pompeo, Kelly Ann Conway, and Bill Barr Caitlin Jenner, too. So these are people who did not attend for many, many years.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So at that point, it's like big dogs only. We're going Tucker, we're going Don, we're going Trump, we're going DeSantis, we're going Clarence Thomas. And then we're into media. Biden Kamala and then in the”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Versus me picking up right so certain women were off limits. I wasn't sure about Mitch McConnell's hell. It's very hard to find anything on him. If I make a Mitch McConnell joke and then someone goes, See, he's still sick and you're like, yeah.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The conversation the next day is man tells joke about women, man picked on women. Doesn't matter if the joke was based in policy or Nikki saying what she said about Joe Biden and whatever. The conversation becomes less about the jokes and people assuming intention. And I didn't completely avoid it. I mean, it happened with the Don Lemon stuff, but I'm happier that it happened on some man-on-man crime.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think anyone's off limits. I just think the angles at which you go with them. To be appropriate, you know, again, me dealing with people not really knowing me appearance jokes, that's not my lane. Just if you look at my comedy just. You look at the catalog of jokes I have told Don't do jokes on people's appearance, so that was never going to be a lane for me. We had some Mitch McConnell jokes early on, then he failed. And so he was like, all right, I guess we can't do the Mitch McConnell jokes and the concussion. He in the hospital. Same game with Diane Feinstein. We were like, that's dicey. And then we looked at Nikki Haley and Marjorie Taylor Green. And I think the thing that I had to be very careful about is people can take a joke and reassign it to make it mean whatever they want it to mean.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, because I want you to go on the same adventure that I'm going on, which is I want you to be, oh, I'm safe. That's a high to make you think that I'm about to attack her, but then you reverse it into a conversation about sexism. And how part of why I think we overlook her accomplishments and the things that she has done make whatever criticisms you want about how she's handled stuff, but to say she has done nothing, it's a lie.”
2023-05-04 · On with Kara Swisher · Roy Wood Jr. on President Biden, Tucker Carlson, Trevor Noah and (of course) the WGA Strike · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT