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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

So, yeah, my dad was, you know, there was an actor that cast him. That whole get pulled over scene is in the show. That's your dad. Yeah.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I was very kind to them.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's more of an in reverse. How could you miss all of this? I know this is the wrong can of beans to open up this late in our conversation, but I think... The moments I have with my son, a lot of them are moments that my father missed with me. So it's like, damn, man, how did I miss this? You missed this? You didn't show up to the Boy Scout joint. You didn't show up to the chess tournament, baby.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's more of an in reverse. How could you miss all of this? I know this is the wrong can of beans to open up this late in our conversation, but I think... The moments I have with my son, a lot of them are moments that my father missed with me. So it's like, damn, man, how did I miss this? You missed this? You didn't show up to the Boy Scout joint. You didn't show up to the chess tournament, baby.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

It's more of an in reverse. How could you miss all of this? I know this is the wrong can of beans to open up this late in our conversation, but I think... The moments I have with my son, a lot of them are moments that my father missed with me. So it's like, damn, man, how did I miss this? You missed this? You didn't show up to the Boy Scout joint. You didn't show up to the chess tournament, baby.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Where was you at? What were you doing? Like, that would be the bigger question is, hey, man, I need you to account for your absences. So it would probably be like a terrible accountability evaluation conversation. Like if my dad was alive today, it'd be me yelling at an 80-year-old man. Probably not fair.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Where was you at? What were you doing? Like, that would be the bigger question is, hey, man, I need you to account for your absences. So it would probably be like a terrible accountability evaluation conversation. Like if my dad was alive today, it'd be me yelling at an 80-year-old man. Probably not fair.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Where was you at? What were you doing? Like, that would be the bigger question is, hey, man, I need you to account for your absences. So it would probably be like a terrible accountability evaluation conversation. Like if my dad was alive today, it'd be me yelling at an 80-year-old man. Probably not fair.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I think that at its core, yes. The short answer to your question is yes. Therapy helped me. And you understand that if you're, you know, a computer software, if the software is corrupted, then any program that you attempt to run on that computer is not going to run properly. In this case,

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I think that at its core, yes. The short answer to your question is yes. Therapy helped me. And you understand that if you're, you know, a computer software, if the software is corrupted, then any program that you attempt to run on that computer is not going to run properly. In this case,

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

I think that at its core, yes. The short answer to your question is yes. Therapy helped me. And you understand that if you're, you know, a computer software, if the software is corrupted, then any program that you attempt to run on that computer is not going to run properly. In this case,

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Parenting.ios or being a good communicator, being emotionally vulnerable, all of that additional software is being built on corrupted firmware. So I have to grade everything that he did on the curve because of his own childhood traumas that I started learning about a little later on. And so I think that helps to inform it, but it still doesn't.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Parenting.ios or being a good communicator, being emotionally vulnerable, all of that additional software is being built on corrupted firmware. So I have to grade everything that he did on the curve because of his own childhood traumas that I started learning about a little later on. And so I think that helps to inform it, but it still doesn't.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

Parenting.ios or being a good communicator, being emotionally vulnerable, all of that additional software is being built on corrupted firmware. So I have to grade everything that he did on the curve because of his own childhood traumas that I started learning about a little later on. And so I think that helps to inform it, but it still doesn't.

Fresh Air
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism

For me, the book that I'm writing, though, the book is about the lessons I learned as a man and who else I learned them from in lieu of not getting all of those lessons from him in lieu of his death. of his earlier death. So I think that, yeah, there is a degree of compassion when you understand, but having compassion and understanding why doesn't change the what.