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Roy Wood Jr.

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2969 total appearances

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

That is what everyone said.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Well, these cases are usually adjudicated at a five-year sentence, but with good behavior, you're a young man with no priors.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

So I end up somehow getting probation instead of prison.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

So in that time, up until sentencing, I started doing stand-up comedy just because I had no friends.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

I stopped short of saying depression, knowing now what people who are depressed deal with.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

But whatever it was, I was in a bad place.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Comedy made me happy.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

So when I found out I got probation, I just kept doing comedy.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Like, you can't tell me I'm throwing my life away with comedy.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

I'm over here on the Dean's list.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

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.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

But then when you do the math and I look back on it, I go, oh, that was my internship.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

And so when I graduated from school, I had two jobs that I could have applied for and probably would have gotten.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

One was the Tampa Tribune to do the page two sports 2 a.m.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Oh, you could have been a sports writer.