Roy Wood Jr. on Comedy, Criminal Justice, and Chicken Sandwiches

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Roy Wood Jr. has been a comedian since he was 19. He's a correspondent for 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah' and has two Comedy Central specials under his belt. Wood talks to Sam about his career, how to be funny in a changing political climate, and a project he's working on that was inspired by a run-in with the law. Email the show at samsanders@npr.org.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:07.7	It's been a minute.
0:08.7	I want to take you back to this past August and one of my favorite moments of the year.
0:15.2	Before impeachment, before conflict with Iran, the war on everyone's mind was over a
0:21.2	chicken sandwich.
0:22.9	Americans are flooding Popeye's restaurants hoping to get their hands on the new crispy chicken
0:28.3	sandwiches.
0:29.4	The Popeye's chicken sandwich and the fast food company battles.
0:33.2	It started.
0:34.2	That was the food story of the year, my year for sure.
0:38.4	The sandwiches sold out almost immediately and just about every fast food chain wanted
0:42.8	to fight Popeyes over it.
0:44.9	At least online.
0:46.5	Roy Wood Jr. was on the case.
0:48.7	He sustained up comedian and the daily show correspondent.
0:51.3	His most recent comedy special from Comedy Central is called Roy Wood Jr.
0:56.0	No one loves you.
0:57.5	Anyway, a couple months back when the chicken sandwich wars are raging.
1:01.5	Roy made a short YouTube series called The Coalition.
1:05.6	If you think of chicken sandwiches as drugs, Popeye's chicken sandwich is the new drug that
1:10.8	is taken over the world.
1:12.7	And so what would the other drug dealers do to undercut the new dealer?
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