You're always going to have people because now, in a weird way, the truth has become something that you can outsource to fit what you believe in. Yeah, but I think you're always going to have people who just don't care. Do you feel like we're at a space where people are finally starting to pay attention? Y ou've been telling the hard truth for a long time. Is he not? Calling the man a NFT, that might have been too far, but it felt right and funny at the time. You took me out with that Clarence Thomas as an Instagram model joke. What Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon's firings say about the impact of episodically dominant figures The Clarence Thomas stuff was only two weeks old because a lot of that Harlan Crow stuff, more information was still dropping. Half the jokes that I did that week, we wrote that week, because the Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon stuff happened that week. It's threading a moving needle because the political tones change every day, what people want to talk about. But I think the material about Kamala, the vice president, you're trying to thread needles that are moving. You get slapped by Joe Biden for talking crazy, you was waiting on that slap. First off, if Joe Biden rushed the stage like Will Smith, you can see him coming. Were you worried about Joe Biden rushing the stand? You just got to go up there and say what's funny to you and what you think is fair and balanced and attacking both sides of an issue. Whether they laugh or not, that's really something you can't worry about as a comedian. The Correspondents' Dinner, to me, is an opportunity for the constituents to say something back to the elected officials. There's a stand-up special I need to shoot and there's a late night show that I need to host." here, or read a Q&A of our conversation below to learn more about his take on cancel culture in comedy, how "The Daily Show" reframed his stand up act and why he enjoys watching comedy as much as he likes writing and performing it. Watch my "Salon Talks" episode with Roy Wood Jr. Wood is most known for cracking us up as a correspondent on "The Daily Show" and his comedy specials including "Father Figure," "No One Loves You" and "Imperfect Messenger." He is currently on the road with his Happy to Be Here tour. This spring, Wood threw zingers at Joe Biden, Clarence Thomas and Tucker Carlson while hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner. How you present that has to evolve into a way that I'm guessing needs to be cheaper and faster to be truly resonant with people." He continued, "This idea of having a daily conversation about the things that have happened in this country and are happening and holding people in power accountable, that avenue still is viable. I hate to talk like that, but I'm a realist, bro." There's going to be a lot of cuts, in my opinion, fiscally. "I think late night needs innovation," Wood told me on "Salon Talks." "I don't think that the way we've constructed late night will continue to be the way we see it post-strike. ( Salon's unionized employees are represented by the WGA East.) With Trevor Noah's departure from "The Daily Show," the ending of "Desus and Mero," and the cancellation of HBO's "Pause with Sam Jay" and Showtime's "Ziwe," comedian Roy Wood Jr.-who himself is in the running to be the next "Daily Show" host - is questioning how the remaining late shows will survive the current Writers Guild of America strike. But has the rise of streaming lessened their relevance? How many people are tuning in at 11 p.m. It was a significant accomplishment for an entertainer or athlete to be invited to appear on a late-night show and be interviewed by greats like David Letterman, Arsenio Hall or today's Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Late-night TV shows used to be at the top of the food chain.
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