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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You have to bathe yourself in that a little bit. So yeah, take the train, talk to regular people. But it's the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything is just talking to strangers. And then that becomes the things that I can take and put on stage because now you're helping to embody. You have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You have to bathe yourself in that a little bit. So yeah, take the train, talk to regular people. But it's the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything is just talking to strangers. And then that becomes the things that I can take and put on stage because now you're helping to embody. You have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You have to bathe yourself in that a little bit. So yeah, take the train, talk to regular people. But it's the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything is just talking to strangers. And then that becomes the things that I can take and put on stage because now you're helping to embody. You have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, like some comedians have the ideology, I don't want to know what any comedian is saying because I don't want it to pollute my thinking where I'm the opposite. I want to know every single piece of known data that has been performed.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, like some comedians have the ideology, I don't want to know what any comedian is saying because I don't want it to pollute my thinking where I'm the opposite. I want to know every single piece of known data that has been performed.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, like some comedians have the ideology, I don't want to know what any comedian is saying because I don't want it to pollute my thinking where I'm the opposite. I want to know every single piece of known data that has been performed.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

It tells me where not to go. So when I did BET's Comic View in 2004, I'd gotten turned down three years in a row. And I'd gotten so angry with them. The year before I got Comic View, I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by a comedian for the entire season. Here's how many jokes about...

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

It tells me where not to go. So when I did BET's Comic View in 2004, I'd gotten turned down three years in a row. And I'd gotten so angry with them. The year before I got Comic View, I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by a comedian for the entire season. Here's how many jokes about...

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

It tells me where not to go. So when I did BET's Comic View in 2004, I'd gotten turned down three years in a row. And I'd gotten so angry with them. The year before I got Comic View, I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by a comedian for the entire season. Here's how many jokes about...

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, ugly, here's sex jokes, here's race jokes, here's president, famous people, Michael Jackson, like Kobe Bryant, like cataloged it all. And then just told myself that entire year, I won't make a joke about any of these things. So now, now, at minimum, I'm original.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, ugly, here's sex jokes, here's race jokes, here's president, famous people, Michael Jackson, like Kobe Bryant, like cataloged it all. And then just told myself that entire year, I won't make a joke about any of these things. So now, now, at minimum, I'm original.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

You know, ugly, here's sex jokes, here's race jokes, here's president, famous people, Michael Jackson, like Kobe Bryant, like cataloged it all. And then just told myself that entire year, I won't make a joke about any of these things. So now, now, at minimum, I'm original.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

when I started researching all the stuff I wanted to talk about, and it was just like researching a dang story from college, documentary research. And then once I approached it as that, then it became, oh, you can find interesting, like if you can sneak in something that people didn't know or didn't consider into your bits, oh, cool. You know, The Daily Show changed a lot for me creatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

when I started researching all the stuff I wanted to talk about, and it was just like researching a dang story from college, documentary research. And then once I approached it as that, then it became, oh, you can find interesting, like if you can sneak in something that people didn't know or didn't consider into your bits, oh, cool. You know, The Daily Show changed a lot for me creatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

when I started researching all the stuff I wanted to talk about, and it was just like researching a dang story from college, documentary research. And then once I approached it as that, then it became, oh, you can find interesting, like if you can sneak in something that people didn't know or didn't consider into your bits, oh, cool. You know, The Daily Show changed a lot for me creatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

Daily Show taught me over analysis and how to find the angle on a topic that no one has touched yet. You know, we know what they're saying. What are they not saying? And how can we say that? And then Trevor Noah taught me through observation as a black man, when to use your anger and when to keep it in your back pocket performatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

Daily Show taught me over analysis and how to find the angle on a topic that no one has touched yet. You know, we know what they're saying. What are they not saying? And how can we say that? And then Trevor Noah taught me through observation as a black man, when to use your anger and when to keep it in your back pocket performatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

Daily Show taught me over analysis and how to find the angle on a topic that no one has touched yet. You know, we know what they're saying. What are they not saying? And how can we say that? And then Trevor Noah taught me through observation as a black man, when to use your anger and when to keep it in your back pocket performatively.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

But performing in a state of aggression, as I was for the most part coming into The Daily Show, doesn't help your point to land with everyone.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.

But performing in a state of aggression, as I was for the most part coming into The Daily Show, doesn't help your point to land with everyone.