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Roy Wood Jr. claims that there are two types of comedians in the world. Get to know his type in the next episode of “Masters of the Game”
Roy Wood Jr. is one of the biggest comics working today, and it was an honor to sit down with him for Masters of the Game. This is a implausible episode. Wood is a political comedian who wants to make you’re thinking that. He prefers to discuss what he thinks about the world moderately than who he’s. He says this distinguishes two types of comedians in the world.
“I think the best comedians are either overly analytical about themselves or the world,” he said. “There are two jokes for me. There is a joke that either tells me who you are or a joke that tells me the way you see the world.
Wood definitely prefers to joke about how he sees the world, jokes about his ideas and perspective. We learn little about who he’s from his comedies. That’s why he was an ideal fit for “The Daily Show,” where intellect became laughter. Wood currently works at CNN on “Have I Got News For You.”
Wood talks about “The Daily Show” – he grew up in Alabama, starting out in comedy at age 19 after which headlining the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and beyond, in a conversation that takes us through much of his life. If you are a Wood fan, it shouldn’t surprise you that his father was a broadcast journalist who covered the Civil Rights Movement. I bet Wood’s eloquence and love of justice were inherited from his father. But in the event you’re a fan of Wood’s, it would surprise you to know that when he was a 19-year-old college student, he committed bank card fraud, got busted for the fraud, and almost went to jail for some time. He could also be the smartest guy in the room now, but he wasn’t all the time smart.
To hear Wood’s full story, watch “Masters of the Game” Friday at 8 p.m. ET and Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on TheGrio Cable Network.