Roy Wood Jr.

I had a job opportunity at the Tampa Tribune.

I had one at the Birmingham News.

Both were going to pay about 17, 14 or 17 thousand dollars by my calculations that year.

At this point, I'm going into my third year of comedy by my calculations.

I would have made 27 K that year.

And then I stopped minus gas and all of the other stuff.

But I worked hard enough in those two years in school that by the time I came out, I just did the math and it just fiscally made more sense to keep doing comedy.

And every year since then, it has fiscally made more sense to keep doing comedy.

Paid in cocaine one time.

It's definitely been called the N-word a couple times from hecklers.

But you have to remember, when I started, I didn't have anything.

I was supposed to be in prison.

So this is better than prison.

So this idea of taking a risk and a jump, it wasn't that just didn't register.

And God bless me because I just was too dumb to know how wild of a decision I was making.

I had two roommates, bro.

All I had to cover every month living in Tallahassee was three hundred and seventy five dollars.

And I did that at Golden Corral.

So the money I was making on the weekend, that was just extra gravy.

And I was riding the Greyhound.