Which jokes did you feel went over best, and were there any that you felt should’ve done better? Some of the first stuff to go was stuff about Elon and blue checks and Bluesky. There was some Elon stuff that I wasn’t able to get to, but we never even got into the Elon stuff.

Were there any other jokes that you had to scrap after the Biden set? Did you have Elon Musk material that ended up getting the chop? media and political elite to their faces, including President Biden and Vice President Harris.ĭespite hitting the afterparties till 3 a.m., including a private CBS News event at the French ambassador’s house and a TheGrio soiree at The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the former filled with “a lot of diplomatic-immunity types” and the latter with Diana Ross and Byron Allen, Wood has generously given some of his time to discuss his entertaining stand-up set, wherein he skewered recently fired cable-news hosts Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, Fox News’ $787 million Dominion settlement, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ sketchy relationship with conservative billionaire-benefactor Harlan Crow. The comedian is calling Rolling Stone the day after hosting the 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which saw the longtime Daily Show contributor (and future host?) follow in the footsteps of comedy greats Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Jon Stewart in roasting the D.C. And then, you have to keep in mind that there are people watching at home that could care less about any of those people.” “It’s just too many different types of people, all in the same place, and you’re trying to figure out the joke that’s going to hit all of those people. “I don’t think there’s a crowd that’s a more strange mix than this,” offers Roy Wood Jr.

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