Roy Wood Jr. Cleans Up Trump’s ‘Skid Marks’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. tells us what his year of ‘Daily Show’ correspondent appearances from home has been like and how the show has changed since Trump left office. He also talks about his new podcast ‘Roy’s Job Fair,’ previews his recently announced stand-up special set to premiere on Comedy Central later this year and shares hilarious stories about his late-night debut on ‘Letterman’ and why his first ‘Daily Show’ audition didn’t go as planned.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest has been a correspondent on The Daily Show since 2015. |
| 0:05.4 | He also happens to be one of the funniest stand-up comics in the game. |
| 0:10.8 | We hate learning new stuff. |
| 0:12.0 | We don't even like updating our cell phone. |
| 0:16.1 | That's how much we hate learning new stuff. |
| 0:19.0 | You got a damn $1,000 phone in your pocket right now. |
| 0:22.9 | Every week, your phone |
| 0:24.2 | send you a message and be like, hey man, |
| 0:26.9 | if you hit this button, I'll be a better |
| 0:28.5 | phone. |
| 0:31.7 | And what we do? |
| 0:32.8 | Fuck that. Maybe later. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you. Maybe later. |
| 0:43.7 | This is the last laugh. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, |
| 0:48.3 | and that was Roy Wood Jr. |
| 0:51.8 | From his most recent stand-up special, No One Loves You. |
| 0:55.6 | I've been a huge fan of Roy's work on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah over the past five and a half years, but he really comes alive on the stand-up stage, |
| 1:01.6 | so I was pumped to find out that he is planning to tape and release a brand new hour on Comedy |
| 1:07.9 | Central later this year. And like everyone else during the pandemic, he's got a new |
| 1:13.6 | podcast. It's called Roy's Job Fair, and it's really unlike any other comedy podcast out there. |
| 1:20.6 | This was just such a fun and thoughtful conversation, so let's get right to it. Here's me with Roy Wood Jr. All right. Thanks for coming on |
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