Roy Wood Jr.
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Podcast Appearances
That is what everyone said.
Well, these cases are usually adjudicated at a five-year sentence, but with good behavior, you're a young man with no priors.
Correct.
Correct.
So I end up somehow getting probation instead of prison.
So in that time, up until sentencing, I started doing stand-up comedy just because I had no friends.
I was sad.
I stopped short of saying depression, knowing now what people who are depressed deal with.
But whatever it was, I was in a bad place.
Comedy made me happy.
So when I found out I got probation, I just kept doing comedy.
So when I got back in college, at that point, I was so focused on standup that I made good grades just so my parents, just so my mom couldn't say shit to me.
Like, you can't tell me I'm throwing my life away with comedy.
I'm over here on the Dean's list.
So when I graduated with my degree in broadcast, no one would hire me because I had no internships because I spent every summer doing comedy.
But then when you do the math and I look back on it, I go, oh, that was my internship.
It was comedy.
And so when I graduated from school, I had two jobs that I could have applied for and probably would have gotten.
One was the Tampa Tribune to do the page two sports 2 a.m.
Oh, you could have been a sports writer.