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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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849 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I take that as a high compliment. Wow. Considering I grew up studying both of them along with Carlin and Sinbad, yeah. I don't know how to agree with that. I feel like Chappelle takes on far bigger dragons than I do. And I feel like Chris Rock's observations are far more astute and sharp and simple. I use way more words than Chris Rock ever would to make the same points or to say the same things.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I take that as a high compliment. Wow. Considering I grew up studying both of them along with Carlin and Sinbad, yeah. I don't know how to agree with that. I feel like Chappelle takes on far bigger dragons than I do. And I feel like Chris Rock's observations are far more astute and sharp and simple. I use way more words than Chris Rock ever would to make the same points or to say the same things.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I think that's the brilliance of Chris Rock is the brevity. you know, love them or hate them. You don't have to agree with everything, but there were no wasted words. I go back and watch my old specials. I'd be like, man, that whole joke could have gone. Should put that joke on YouTube.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I think that's the brilliance of Chris Rock is the brevity. you know, love them or hate them. You don't have to agree with everything, but there were no wasted words. I go back and watch my old specials. I'd be like, man, that whole joke could have gone. Should put that joke on YouTube.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I think that's the brilliance of Chris Rock is the brevity. you know, love them or hate them. You don't have to agree with everything, but there were no wasted words. I go back and watch my old specials. I'd be like, man, that whole joke could have gone. Should put that joke on YouTube.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, you have to know what regular people are going through. And you can't do that by just... living in uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You know, you're doing anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving. So you have to be immersed in that.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, you have to know what regular people are going through. And you can't do that by just... living in uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You know, you're doing anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving. So you have to be immersed in that.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, you have to know what regular people are going through. And you can't do that by just... living in uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You know, you're doing anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving. So you have to be immersed in that.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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, it's 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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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, it's 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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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, it's 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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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.