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pioneer, Wood Jr. dabbled in radio at Florida A&M, but soon was drawn to
standup. He made his network TV debut on
The Late Show with David Letterman in 2006, kicking off a series of spots that
let him to Comedy Central. This card is
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Roy Norris Wood Jr. (born December 11, 1978) is
an American humorist, comedian, DJ, actor, producer, podcaster, and
writer. He has served as a correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy
Central since 2015.
Early life and education
Wood was
born in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Roy Wood Sr., was
a Birmingham, Alabama radio broadcasting and journalism pioneer who
covered the civil rights movement; the racism encountered by
African-American soldiers in the Vietnam War; the Soweto uprising;
and the Rhodesian Bush War, among other topics. His mother is Joyce
Dugan Wood, a college administrator. His paternal three times
great-grandfather, Sam Wood, was born c. 1790 in Africa. His parents
separated for a time, and Wood lived with his mother in Memphis,
Tennessee. When Wood was in the second grade, his parents reconciled, so
the family moved to Birmingham they lived on South Park Road in Birmingham's
West End neighborhood. His half-brother is Roy L. Wood, a news anchor.
Wood
attended Central Park Elementary and Center Street Middle School. He
graduated from Ramsay High School in 1996. In 2001, Wood
received a B.S. in broadcast journalism from Florida
A&M University.
Career
While in
college, Wood worked as a morning news reporter
for Tallahassee, Florida radio station WBHJ 95.7
Jamz Hot 105.7. He began focusing on a career in comedy after filling in
for the station's in-house comedian, Rickey Smiley.
In 1998,
when he was 19, Wood began his career as a standup. Wood recalls that he
passed on his midterm tests, essentially failing the semester, in order to open
for Tommy Davidson. Wood spent his last two years of college doing
comedy on the weekends.
In 2001,
after graduating from college, Wood returned to Birmingham and became the head
writer/producer for the Buckwilde Morning Show (WBHJ 95.7
JAMZ), a position he held until 2006. He continued working in radio,
providing prank calls and content to various morning shows nationally and
contributing to Jamie Foxx's Foxxhole station on Sirius XM Radio. Wood
released three prank call CDs: My Momma Made Me Wear This (2003), Confessions
of a Bench Warmer (2005), and I'll Slap You to Sleep (2007). Wood's
pranks have been featured on numerous hip-hop mix tapes.
In 2007,
Wood moved to Los Angeles.
In 2010,
Wood finished third in the seventh season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and
began hosting his own morning show, The Roy Wood Jr Show. The show
garnered top ratings and won 'Large Market Morning Show of the Year' from
the Alabama Broadcasters Association for several years.
From 2011
to 2014, Wood appeared on the TBS sitcom Sullivan & Son. He
had a guest starring role in the first season, but was then promoted to series
regular for the second and third seasons. Sullivan & Son was
canceled in 2014.
In 2013,
Wood's first stand-up comedy CD, Things I Think, I Think, was
released.
In 2015,
he was cast by ABC to play alongside Whoopi Goldberg in the comedy
pilot Delores and Jermaine; the show did not make it beyond the
pilot stage.
In 2015,
Wood joined The Daily Show as a correspondent. Wood moved to New York City to take the job. Wood
has said that his background in standup coupled with his degree in journalism
prepared him for the job. Wood said that his work doing guest roles in
sports on ESPN and related companies prepared him for The Daily Show,
giving him experience with acting, timing, and building characters.
His
first Comedy Central stand-up special, Father Figure,
premiered in 2017, with an extended uncensored album of the same name released
by Comedy Central Records. In 2017, he was named the new host of Comedy
Central's storytelling series This Is Not Happening. Wood's
second Comedy Central special, Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You,
premiered in 2019.
Wood has
appeared as a comic on many late night talk shows, including the Late
Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Chelsea
Lately, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers,
and Conan. Wood has performed for the troops on
numerous USO tours in the Middle East and the Pacific Islands.
In 2018,
it was announced that Wood planned on shooting a TV show in Jefferson
County, Alabama. The pilot, called Jefferson County Probation,
started shooting in May 2019. As of March 2020, a completed pilot for the
show, now called Jefferson County: Probation, was shot
for Comedy Central, with the show in development. The show, created
in collaboration with Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks), is about
two probation officers in Jefferson County, Alabama. It is loosely inspired by
a 1998 experience Wood had as a 19-year-old college student, when he was
arrested for stealing $400 to $500 worth of blue jeans and was sentenced to
probation.
In 2019,
Wood did a series of YouTube videos centered on the Popeye's
Chicken chicken sandwich craze called The Coalition (Chicken
Sandwich Coalition).
Personal
life
Wood lives
in Harlem with his girlfriend, shoe designer Salone Monet, with whom he has a
son, born in 2016.
Honors
Selected
publications
Selected
filmography
Stand-up specials
Selected
discography