Ted Audio Collective.

Audio Collective.

Entertainers as a whole have to start thinking of themselves as their own promotional vehicle.

And if the studios and the networks

want to rock with you later on, let them come.

But this idea of waiting patiently to be chosen, so you can find

the people who will love you forever, that's a suckers bet.

From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

For 18 years Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, comedian Roy Wood Jr. talks about how he learned his craft and about the business of comedy in the age of social media.

How people consume stuff dictates how you create the stuff.

This interview was part of the Design Matters live tour presented in New York City on September

18th, 2023 by On Air.

For this interview with Roy Wood Jr. Debbie handed over hosting duties to her partner,

the one and only Roxanne Gay.

So Roy, I know you were born in New York, but you claim Birmingham, Alabama is home. Yeah, my father was in journalism, and so he worked for W.C.S. at the time. And then as soon as I was born, got another job like you know journalism you just bounce around.

And so we were in Memphis till I was in the third grade and then Birmingham after that I feel like wherever first bully first kiss high school diploma.

Mm-hmm. If you got two out of three in the same city that's where you're from.

That's my metric. I know that's not you're from.

That's my metric.

I know that's not an official statistic.

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