Speaking with Sherri Shepherd, the comedian quipped, “This is the first job I ever quit where I got to clean out my office.”
—Wood said that he shocked even himself by choosing to leave, especially during a strike. As he put it, “Who do you know come off strike and then quit the job?”
Although leaving wasn’t his plan, Wood continued, “As you start looking at the lay of the land of late night and television as a whole, that’s going to be a long process figuring out who is going to be in that chair.” While he respects that process, he added, “I need to have my process. So I’m going to be over here making sure all my ducks are in a row as well.
“It’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to get married?’ and then Comedy Central is like, ‘We gonna date around,’” he quipped. “ ... Then you go ahead and date around and I’m gonna be over here getting myself together for whoever wants to be with me when the time comes. That’s really what it was. Like I understand it. I gotta give a shout out to the homie, Trevor Noah, for giving me the opportunity to be there eight years.
“Some people will come up and say, ‘Man, go do your thing!’ and others will come up and they’re almost in mourning, like I posted about my dog dying or something,” he said. “I’m fine. I’m thankful. I had a job for eight years, bro. That’s an excellent run.”
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