Roy Wood Jr.

I'm not Paul Mooney.

I'll never be.

I'll never be in that in that orbit.

But if I can make you think just a little differently about something that you thought you knew.

For me, that's enough.

I don't know if I have the power to change your mind about it.

I don't have the power to yell at you about it.

I don't have the power.

to make you feel guilty about it and still make you laugh.

And that was the brilliance to me of Paul Mooney and Dick Gregory was that they could get into something far more emotionally visceral and then yo-yo that shit two sentences later into a punchline.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I never worked with him outside the comedy clubs.

He was fine.

But I have heard, you know, professional stories and, you know, studio execs or the writer couldn't get this, that and the third.

I couldn't speak to that.

But, you know, he was always kind and treated me with respect.

I'm telling you, I heard the same – I have heard the same stories about him.

I don't have a personal story.

In that regard.