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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Thank you for having me back. It is a pleasure.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Thank you for having me back. It is a pleasure.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

He's on the patch. He's on the N-word patch.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

He's on the patch. He's on the N-word patch.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

He's on the patch. He's on the N-word patch.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I try to use it in scenarios where I feel like if I'm impersonating a person who would have said it or if it is a feeling of exasperation. It's like if there is an emotion, then there is a word for it. And not everybody agrees with particular words, but I feel like once you've had the conscious thought then as they say, God knows your heart, well, then you said it.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I try to use it in scenarios where I feel like if I'm impersonating a person who would have said it or if it is a feeling of exasperation. It's like if there is an emotion, then there is a word for it. And not everybody agrees with particular words, but I feel like once you've had the conscious thought then as they say, God knows your heart, well, then you said it.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I try to use it in scenarios where I feel like if I'm impersonating a person who would have said it or if it is a feeling of exasperation. It's like if there is an emotion, then there is a word for it. And not everybody agrees with particular words, but I feel like once you've had the conscious thought then as they say, God knows your heart, well, then you said it.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So I'm not going to say fricking or gosh darn, that just for me does not work. I have resigned myself to the truth though that Certain words are going to nail to chalkboard certain people because they just don't like those words. And if that's the case, then I'm not sure if everything that I do is going to be for you. And that's fine. And when done properly, a comedy booker told me.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So I'm not going to say fricking or gosh darn, that just for me does not work. I have resigned myself to the truth though that Certain words are going to nail to chalkboard certain people because they just don't like those words. And if that's the case, then I'm not sure if everything that I do is going to be for you. And that's fine. And when done properly, a comedy booker told me.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So I'm not going to say fricking or gosh darn, that just for me does not work. I have resigned myself to the truth though that Certain words are going to nail to chalkboard certain people because they just don't like those words. And if that's the case, then I'm not sure if everything that I do is going to be for you. And that's fine. And when done properly, a comedy booker told me.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Ages ago, this was late 90s, she said profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. And so I curse way more when I am first starting a joke. And a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words become um words. Like if you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it's polished, it's night and day.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Ages ago, this was late 90s, she said profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. And so I curse way more when I am first starting a joke. And a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words become um words. Like if you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it's polished, it's night and day.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Ages ago, this was late 90s, she said profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. And so I curse way more when I am first starting a joke. And a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words become um words. Like if you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it's polished, it's night and day.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And so you have all of these curse words and they're scaffolding and then you slowly start taking the support beams away to see whether or not the joke is really funny.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And so you have all of these curse words and they're scaffolding and then you slowly start taking the support beams away to see whether or not the joke is really funny.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And so you have all of these curse words and they're scaffolding and then you slowly start taking the support beams away to see whether or not the joke is really funny.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Can I laugh at this? Yeah. And that's the thing that. For me, I'm just going to be my natural self. I'm not doing it deliberately to make you uncomfortable. But if you choose not to laugh, that's fine. I'm not the type of person that would trip at you laughing at it. But you don't know that about me. You don't know what type of Black person I am.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Can I laugh at this? Yeah. And that's the thing that. For me, I'm just going to be my natural self. I'm not doing it deliberately to make you uncomfortable. But if you choose not to laugh, that's fine. I'm not the type of person that would trip at you laughing at it. But you don't know that about me. You don't know what type of Black person I am.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Can I laugh at this? Yeah. And that's the thing that. For me, I'm just going to be my natural self. I'm not doing it deliberately to make you uncomfortable. But if you choose not to laugh, that's fine. I'm not the type of person that would trip at you laughing at it. But you don't know that about me. You don't know what type of Black person I am.