Roy Wood Jr.

In 2014, the year before I got The Daily Show.

So I was blessed enough to where I had a buddy that I was in journalism school with and he knew some producers up at ESPN.

Hey, man, there's this lady, Jamel Hill and Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike Smith.

They're doing a show called His and Hers.

If you're ever near Bristol and I'll drive.

And at the time, I still lived in L.A.

But if I had a gig anywhere in the tri-state, hey, man, can I come up?

No, this is pre 6 p.m.

sports center.

They were on it two in the afternoon, two years prior to when they did this.

Oh, like numbers never lie.

If I'm performing anywhere within five hours of Bristol, I'm adding a day and I'm driving and I'm going to be in that studio.

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.