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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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849 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

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
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, the first piece that I did, the first segment I did, that ever aired on the show was a segment with Jordan Klepper. The first field piece, I mean. It's the first week of the show. It was a segment called Are All Cops Racist? And Klepper and I did a... a ride-along with the Appleton, Wisconsin Police Department. It wasn't Madison. It was a Wisconsin city.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, the first piece that I did, the first segment I did, that ever aired on the show was a segment with Jordan Klepper. The first field piece, I mean. It's the first week of the show. It was a segment called Are All Cops Racist? And Klepper and I did a... a ride-along with the Appleton, Wisconsin Police Department. It wasn't Madison. It was a Wisconsin city.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, the first piece that I did, the first segment I did, that ever aired on the show was a segment with Jordan Klepper. The first field piece, I mean. It's the first week of the show. It was a segment called Are All Cops Racist? And Klepper and I did a... a ride-along with the Appleton, Wisconsin Police Department. It wasn't Madison. It was a Wisconsin city.

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And we interview a former NYPD detective about over-policing and police bias and, you know, just all the things in 2015. And this man said the N-word in the interview and...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And we interview a former NYPD detective about over-policing and police bias and, you know, just all the things in 2015. And this man said the N-word in the interview and...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And we interview a former NYPD detective about over-policing and police bias and, you know, just all the things in 2015. And this man said the N-word in the interview and...

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Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Well, he didn't call me in word. But he used it, right. He used the word. And so for me, the comedian in me and the black man in me, we've got to talk about that. And so it's Klepper and I doing a two-man, two-on-one interview. And he's like reciting fictional rap lyrics just for context.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Well, he didn't call me in word. But he used it, right. He used the word. And so for me, the comedian in me and the black man in me, we've got to talk about that. And so it's Klepper and I doing a two-man, two-on-one interview. And he's like reciting fictional rap lyrics just for context.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Well, he didn't call me in word. But he used it, right. He used the word. And so for me, the comedian in me and the black man in me, we've got to talk about that. And so it's Klepper and I doing a two-man, two-on-one interview. And he's like reciting fictional rap lyrics just for context.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

You know, he said, if you're a black person, like basically to keep from getting harassed by the police, as a black person, be respectful and don't have your music blasting when we come up to the car. When you come up, when I come up to the car after I pulled you over, I don't want to hear yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. And he says it, right?

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

You know, he said, if you're a black person, like basically to keep from getting harassed by the police, as a black person, be respectful and don't have your music blasting when we come up to the car. When you come up, when I come up to the car after I pulled you over, I don't want to hear yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. And he says it, right?