Roy Wood Jr. says his exit from Comedy Central's 'Daily Show' was spurred in part by worries about the viability of TV's late-night format
During the recently ended writers strike, many people who worked on the staffs of TV’s late-night shows wished things would get back to normal.
Roy Wood Jr. was surprised to find that he was not one of them. Wood, one of the team of faux news correspondents on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” since 2015,
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