Roy Wood Jr.
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And I don't know if that's what I would want.
Is there another show option perhaps?
Can you can you pepper in some other shit in between the segments?
Like that's where my brain.
I'm thankful, and I'm appreciative of that perspective.
I've done a lot of things that would say that I could do that thing well.
Now, you have to convince an exec who does not want to take chances in a time where pretty much every studio wants to do the safe thing.
They want to do remakes.
They don't want to rock the boat, because if you do something truly different and it doesn't work, it's your ass.
You have to convince that person to do something different.
Because what's wild is that everything that you're talking about with me, that would be considered a radical approach to television by some studios.
The shows in late night that we respect the most that have done the best were done by people who the execs did not get in the way of.
So the question becomes, will people creatively obstruct me?
And keep me from doing the things that I want to do that best fit me.
Because listen, I get it twisted.
There's some shows out there where people want to hire you to do what they think you should be doing.
They don't want you to be you.
I look at you and I think you can be a good version of what I need you to be.
So let me just take a little bit of that creativity away.
Let me knock away that little part of your personality.