Comedian Roy Wood Jr.

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Comic Roy Wood Jr. will host the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend. Recently Wood guest hosted The Daily Show, as Comedy Central decides who will replace Trevor Noah. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2018.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air.
0:01.0	I'm David B. Inkouli, Infateri Gross.
0:03.9	Comic Roy Wood, Jr. is scheduled to appear Saturday in Washington, DC as the latest comedian
0:09.8	to host the often controversial White House correspondence dinner.
0:13.8	Wood is a correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show and made his debut on that show
0:19.0	the same day Trevor Noah took over as host.
0:22.8	And since Trevor Noah stepped down, Wood had his own stint as guest host as part of Comedy
0:28.5	Central's on-air process to audition and appoint the next permanent host.
0:33.8	Here he is about a month ago when he hosted the show for a couple weeks.
0:37.6	Moving on to a big story today.
0:40.9	One of America's Supreme Court justices is in a major corruption scandal.
0:46.4	And you'll never guess who, okay, it's Claire's Thomas.
0:49.8	But you'll never guess what.
0:52.9	A simply blockbuster, long bombshell report.
0:56.2	Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas did not disclose luxury trips around the world worth
1:01.8	hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1:03.9	ProPublica says Justice Thomas has for years accepted free charter jet flights and stays
1:08.5	on a yacht and luxury resorts.
1:11.6	From real estate developer Harlan Crowe, Crowe is a conservative mega-downer.
1:16.3	Crowe tells ProPublica he's never tried to influence the justice on legal or political
1:22.5	issues.
1:23.5	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
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