Roy Wood Jr.

And when you look at my job in that chair, it really wasn't any different from radio.

Because in morning radio, as the comedian, as it was told to me by my radio sensei, Samuel Mack,

The job of the comedian is to offer the viewpoint that no one else in the room possesses.

The three people in the room possess the views of the listener.

Your job is to be crazy town and come up with the most alternative counter art, whatever it is.

It can't be something that any three of us have already said or you think we would say until you have that thing to say.

Your job is to sit here and be quiet.

and answer the phone.

So shut up until you have something funny to say.

And that was the job.

And so that was the habit of how my comedic writing started.

And then that fit perfectly into ESPN because Beatle, Marcellus Wiley, and Max Kellerman, they were gonna handle the structure.

stats, nerd stuff.

My job is to come in and say something silly, roll grenades across the floor.

That's it.

That's your job.

And then you get to the daily show and lo and behold, what's your job now?

Roll grenades.

It was.

But there's there's a pressure in that because then comes the expectation of.