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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 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 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.

Thank you for that.

If television executives weren't perpetually idiots, he would already be the Daily Show host

because 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 that comes at a cost to a degree,

because now certain clubs aren't going to book you, or you're going to deal with certain

criticism. So that part of it has always been a weird balancing act, but... 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.

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