.roywoodjr is the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He talks about that, and why he'd like to get Gov. Kay Ivey on TheDailyShow: 'I think there’s a lot of good stuff that happens in the state, and I’d like to highlight it.'
Can you tell us about your process leading up to the dinner? Are you writing ideas on scraps of paper or recording ideas on your phone?
Do you think of the Correspondents’ Dinner a super-important gig? Or important, sure, but just another link in the chain of your career? Alabama's Roy Wood Jr. poses for photographers as he arrives to the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Wood will headline this year's White House Correspondents Dinner on April 29. Somewhere I’ll have to figure out an Alabama reference. It has to be more about what’s happening in Alabama, other than mumbling “Roll Tide” under my breath or something silly. Something more relevant than “Roll Tide.
Roy Wood, Jr. speaks onstage during Byron Allen Presents: The Comedy & Music Superfest on February 06, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. “Tribulations” The “Tribulations” show, that’s the one thing if I could really walk it back onto television, at some point, I would love to do that.
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