Welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm excited about this one. It doesn't mean I

haven't been excited about the others, but my level of admiration for this

person with what he's done just sort of flippantly being a journalist while

also being a comedian, honoring the things that his father was about in what

now passes for the old South when he was a journalist who was more joyless than

he was and so I sort of recognize in in you some of the things I saw at my

dinner table where my dad was really unhappy at work and I'm like I don't want

to do it that way like I'd like to work hard but I there's got to be joy in it

because I don't want to be miserable but Roy Wood Jr. should be if you've been

paying attention the Daily Show host now if television executives weren't

perpetually idiots he would already be the Daily Show host because your what

you've done I admire you so much but at least in part because I don't think

many people know how hard it was for you to make a career out of all of this.

What's weird man is all right here's like because I started comedy at 19 which

I would argue if you start anything as a teenager you're just learning the

art of it you don't have an opinion you don't have an angle on what you want to

do and then when you start realizing oh no these are the things I really want to

talk about that I really care about well then there that comes at a cost to a

degree because now certain clubs aren't going to book you are you going to

deal with certain criticism so that part of it has always been a weird

balancing act but at the end of the day if I'm not excited to talk about the

stuff I want to talk about then I can't I can't be up here but foundationally

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