Roy Wood Jr.
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Podcast Appearances
It's exposure.
It's paying me nothing, but it's exposure.
And then that got me access to put money, which got me access to sports nation, which got me access to West coast, ESPN, pretty much anything in ESPN LA that shot I did in 2014.
I came in and then the next year I,
The six happened.
And then 2015, I get The Daily Show.
And part of it was on the strength of some of the segments that I had done on ESPN because the sports, sports and comedy is hard.
To me, it's harder than politics and comedy.
Because at least the politicians, they don't take themselves seriously.
They know they're running a hustle.
And you call them out for it and they just grin and go, yeah, what you going to do?
But if you call out an athlete, an owner, a fan base, a city, they don't like that.
They don't like that.
And all you do is catch a ball, but you can't take the criticism.
Meanwhile, my man over here making these crooked laws is getting all types of poor people done dirty.
He can perfectly take criticism just fine.
And so, you know, ESPN is a network where you got to kind of there's guardrails up within the jokes.
There's not a lot of comedians that come on that network just in general.
Let's just be real about that.
So it's so strange to me.