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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's a weak pitch.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's a weak pitch.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yes. So you're literally, you live in fear of having your idea ripped to shreds. Where SNL, well, it's not funny because of this or this idea is funnier. Whereas The Daily Show, it's you have not made an accurate argument to show me why there's a good level of confliction within the story because that is where the comedy will come from. Go back and you go away. Go figure that out.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yes. So you're literally, you live in fear of having your idea ripped to shreds. Where SNL, well, it's not funny because of this or this idea is funnier. Whereas The Daily Show, it's you have not made an accurate argument to show me why there's a good level of confliction within the story because that is where the comedy will come from. Go back and you go away. Go figure that out.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yes. So you're literally, you live in fear of having your idea ripped to shreds. Where SNL, well, it's not funny because of this or this idea is funnier. Whereas The Daily Show, it's you have not made an accurate argument to show me why there's a good level of confliction within the story because that is where the comedy will come from. Go back and you go away. Go figure that out.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Sometimes they let you leave the room and the meeting lasts like an hour, 90 minutes. So you could leave the room for 20 minutes and come back and have it together. But that still never felt good. So. That research discipline from The Daily Show bled over into my stand-up, and I'm so happy that none of my hour specials came out before I got that show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Sometimes they let you leave the room and the meeting lasts like an hour, 90 minutes. So you could leave the room for 20 minutes and come back and have it together. But that still never felt good. So. That research discipline from The Daily Show bled over into my stand-up, and I'm so happy that none of my hour specials came out before I got that show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Sometimes they let you leave the room and the meeting lasts like an hour, 90 minutes. So you could leave the room for 20 minutes and come back and have it together. But that still never felt good. So. That research discipline from The Daily Show bled over into my stand-up, and I'm so happy that none of my hour specials came out before I got that show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's a fake quiz show about current events that happened in the last seven days. So if you have not consumed an ounce of media all week, we are the perfect show to get a recap of the news that was. And we just do that in the form of a question. You know, what senator's husband refused to shake Kamala's hand at the swearing in? And then I'd tell you to answer.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's a fake quiz show about current events that happened in the last seven days. So if you have not consumed an ounce of media all week, we are the perfect show to get a recap of the news that was. And we just do that in the form of a question. You know, what senator's husband refused to shake Kamala's hand at the swearing in? And then I'd tell you to answer.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's a fake quiz show about current events that happened in the last seven days. So if you have not consumed an ounce of media all week, we are the perfect show to get a recap of the news that was. And we just do that in the form of a question. You know, what senator's husband refused to shake Kamala's hand at the swearing in? And then I'd tell you to answer.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then we would then have a cross conversation about whether or not spouses should be present at your job. I'm working. I'm getting my ID badge. Why is your husband even here? Right, right.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then we would then have a cross conversation about whether or not spouses should be present at your job. I'm working. I'm getting my ID badge. Why is your husband even here? Right, right.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then we would then have a cross conversation about whether or not spouses should be present at your job. I'm working. I'm getting my ID badge. Why is your husband even here? Right, right.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So we can have these side conversations where we give opinions and a little bit of analysis and detail and have a little bit of roundtable talk about it and then come right back into it with a new follow up question, either about that issue or something greater. But we also get to be very silly with the show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So we can have these side conversations where we give opinions and a little bit of analysis and detail and have a little bit of roundtable talk about it and then come right back into it with a new follow up question, either about that issue or something greater. But we also get to be very silly with the show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

So we can have these side conversations where we give opinions and a little bit of analysis and detail and have a little bit of roundtable talk about it and then come right back into it with a new follow up question, either about that issue or something greater. But we also get to be very silly with the show.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I've said this about this show versus The Daily Show is that with Have I Got News, our job is to simply tell you what happened. That's it. There was a snowstorm. There was a sex scandal. And also this dog saved a donkey from a flood or whatever fun animal video. The biggest difference between us and The Daily Show is that...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I've said this about this show versus The Daily Show is that with Have I Got News, our job is to simply tell you what happened. That's it. There was a snowstorm. There was a sex scandal. And also this dog saved a donkey from a flood or whatever fun animal video. The biggest difference between us and The Daily Show is that...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And I've said this about this show versus The Daily Show is that with Have I Got News, our job is to simply tell you what happened. That's it. There was a snowstorm. There was a sex scandal. And also this dog saved a donkey from a flood or whatever fun animal video. The biggest difference between us and The Daily Show is that...