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Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn

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Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

They took the band away from Seth Meyers. They replaced James Corden with After Midnight, which is a great show. But fiscally, it is exponentially cheaper to make. So, you know, there's been a lot of corner cutting in this time, you know. And so it goes back to the Doug Herzog quote that I posted yesterday. the day I left where I said, you know, you don't own these jobs, you rent them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And sooner or later, you know, your number's up. So it doesn't matter if I stayed at The Daily Show. Sooner or later, an exit is inevitable. Which uncertainty will you choose? Stay at this job, not sure who's going to get hired, or the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job. And maybe it'll be an even better job. Choose.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And sooner or later, you know, your number's up. So it doesn't matter if I stayed at The Daily Show. Sooner or later, an exit is inevitable. Which uncertainty will you choose? Stay at this job, not sure who's going to get hired, or the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job. And maybe it'll be an even better job. Choose.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And sooner or later, you know, your number's up. So it doesn't matter if I stayed at The Daily Show. Sooner or later, an exit is inevitable. Which uncertainty will you choose? Stay at this job, not sure who's going to get hired, or the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job. And maybe it'll be an even better job. Choose.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Maybe elementary school, fourth grade, fifth grade. Humor was a weapon. We moved to Birmingham when I was in the fourth grade.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Maybe elementary school, fourth grade, fifth grade. Humor was a weapon. We moved to Birmingham when I was in the fourth grade.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Maybe elementary school, fourth grade, fifth grade. Humor was a weapon. We moved to Birmingham when I was in the fourth grade.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, it was a weapon. It was a deflector, a smoke screen.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, it was a weapon. It was a deflector, a smoke screen.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Yeah, it was a weapon. It was a deflector, a smoke screen.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Just trying to keep from getting bullied and get your sneakers stolen. It's the 80s, crack era. So, you know, some cats is dangerous. And if they're not dangerous, they got an older brother who is. He always wanted to be cool. I kept my head low. I was a little class clowny in middle school. But, like, the idea of explicit thinking and premeditation of humor. I remember in JROTC...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Just trying to keep from getting bullied and get your sneakers stolen. It's the 80s, crack era. So, you know, some cats is dangerous. And if they're not dangerous, they got an older brother who is. He always wanted to be cool. I kept my head low. I was a little class clowny in middle school. But, like, the idea of explicit thinking and premeditation of humor. I remember in JROTC...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Just trying to keep from getting bullied and get your sneakers stolen. It's the 80s, crack era. So, you know, some cats is dangerous. And if they're not dangerous, they got an older brother who is. He always wanted to be cool. I kept my head low. I was a little class clowny in middle school. But, like, the idea of explicit thinking and premeditation of humor. I remember in JROTC...

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

We would have drill every morning in high school. And so there was three tennis courts in a row, side by side by side. And we ran the perimeter of that like a makeshift track. And so you would have to run, I don't know, three or four laps around the tennis courts. And I would deliberately just jog and be well behind everybody, like two, three turns behind everybody.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

We would have drill every morning in high school. And so there was three tennis courts in a row, side by side by side. And we ran the perimeter of that like a makeshift track. And so you would have to run, I don't know, three or four laps around the tennis courts. And I would deliberately just jog and be well behind everybody, like two, three turns behind everybody.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

We would have drill every morning in high school. And so there was three tennis courts in a row, side by side by side. And we ran the perimeter of that like a makeshift track. And so you would have to run, I don't know, three or four laps around the tennis courts. And I would deliberately just jog and be well behind everybody, like two, three turns behind everybody.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then on the last lap, I would call my comeback like a Kentucky Derby announcer. And everybody else, we're all exhausted and I'm trying to talk and run and

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then on the last lap, I would call my comeback like a Kentucky Derby announcer. And everybody else, we're all exhausted and I'm trying to talk and run and

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

And then on the last lap, I would call my comeback like a Kentucky Derby announcer. And everybody else, we're all exhausted and I'm trying to talk and run and

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Sergeant Posey was not feeling this behavior at all. But what can you say? I'm running. You said run, so I'm running. And we would collapse across the finish line. And just be howling with laughter. And it worked every time. And it just made me laugh. And there was no purpose to it, but it was just funny.