Roy Wood Jr.

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.

You were headed down the possible.

I was on that Stuart Scott, Kenny Maine, Van Earl Wright, Jenny Moose type thing.

offbeat like that.

Those were the journalists that I respected.

But he's cool, but he's doing, he's talking about what I love, but he sounds like me.

He was the first person, because before that, before Stu Scott, it was Fred Hickman.

And Fred Hickman was the more buttoned down, more appropriate, more like my father journalistically.

And Stuart Scott, to me, was the evolution.