“I’ve never looked at the chair as anything that I deserve,' Roy Wood Jr. says of hosting The Daily Show
“ been very touching to have people appreciate what I do enough to voice an opinion about it,” Roy Wood Jr. says of the response to him leaving The Daily Show. Wood announced his surprise departure from the Comedy Central series earlier this month, citing his desire not to stick around as a correspondent if he wasn’t being tapped to host the show.
“As weird as it sounds, I am thankful. Because now everyone knows that I can do the thing, and there are many channels.” Elsewhere in the interview, Wood says Trevor Noah taught him the lesson of “Knowing when to leave,” his thoughts on Hasan Minhaj’s scandal, and shared his observations on the state of the industry. “I do think now they’re going to use economics to justify cuts,” he said of the lack of diversity in late night.
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