Life Lessons with Roy Wood Jr.

The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly

SiriusXM

Robert Kelly, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Jay Oakerson

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up comic Roy Wood Jr. is also an author and is back on The Bonfire to promote his new book "The Man Of Many Fathers." Roy's father was a civil rights journalist and womanizer. He relates to Bobby about growing up without a dad who was present and tying to raise his own child without knowing fatherly love. As a kid, Roy chose his sneakers based on being just cool enough not to get bullied over. Jay brings up the topic of tattoos and remembers Joe DeRosa getting ink because George Carlin said something generic to him. Roy Wood Jr's book "The Man Of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir" is for sale anywhere you buy books. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolfSubscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Bonfire ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

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0:00.0	And now, The Bonfire with Big J. O'Kerson and Robert Kelly.
0:07.0	We're back.
0:09.0	The Bonfire, Faction Talk, Series XM 103.
0:13.0	Big J. O'Kerson, the great Robert Kelly.
0:16.0	We have a guest in studio with us, everyone.
0:18.0	His new book, The Man of Many Fathers' Life Lessons, Disguises, a Memoir, goes on sale October 28th, and it's available for pre-order right now at penguin randomhouse.com. Yes, it is. It is the great, the hilarious Roy Wood Jr. How you been, old friends? What's up, my man? Sorry for being late. I have a good reason other than being black.
0:38.0	You're not late, though, really?
0:38.9	Well, that's actually a good reason.
0:41.3	Eh, not anymore.
0:42.6	Y'all not letting us slide with that shit no more.
0:44.9	Just Carnival Cruise line.
0:46.7	They're the only ones that I've had it.
0:49.5	Stop line dancing, you know.
0:53.9	What if the press release had just been that from Carnival? Just enough line dancing. No, so I was out on the curb, bro, and I ran into Steve Sharippa. What? And I had to speak to him because he did me a solid. I've never met this man. Did me a solid 20 years ago. You know, we all got to do it.
1:11.6	Steve's from the Sopranos.
1:12.6	Yep.
1:13.6	Yeah. And he actually ran the Riviera Comedy Club. Yes. The old Riv. In Vegas. Right. So there's this, there's this woman, Diane Ford, when it was OG Vets from back in the day. And she put me on, she called Steve.
1:09.1	It was basically like, hey, I like this guy.
1:11.1	Can he put him on the show?
1:12.0	She gave me the vouch to Steve and because Steve letting me work with Diane in a longer capacity, she vouched me like three, four more place. Like, it literally opened up the entire Midwest. Really? Him, because you know how Steve was like a very strict booker of the Riviera. Like you had to come recommend it by three, four motherfuckers and send tapes and all of that shit. I had a whole ordeal there. I was there once. There was an ordeal. You had no deal at the Riv? Yeah, yeah. Oh, the River. But the River, you had to do, what, 16 shows? No, 14 shows. Oh, it's a grind.
2:01.5	Yeah, it was two a night.
2:02.5	Two a night, three, Friday, three Saturday.
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