I assigned Wood’s first-class at Comedy Central to Roy Wood Jr.: A Father Figure for Best Standup Special 2017. He followed up with No One Loves You in 2019. And came right on schedule two years later with his third class.
Which deals with topics like police and prison reform, civil rights films. The idea of white allies and lower salaries like Brazilians. Ass-lifts or why black British actors somehow manage to portray great American characters, both factual and fictional.
Comedy Central honours Wood’s loyalty:
With several concerts in addition to his long-standing role as The Daily Show correspondent with Trevor Noah. In 2017, Wood did homework for the Comedy Central story show It’s Not Happening. He has also created two digital series for him (Stand-Up Playback and The Night Pigeon).
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And has hosted two podcasts since the start of the pandemic. “Beyond the Stages” on The Daily Show and “Roy’s Job Fair”. Even if you haven’t seen Comedy Central. You can tell Wood from his recent guest appearances on Hulus Only Murders in the Building. AMC’s Better Call Saul, and The Last O.G. by TBS.
Wood goes through the entire lesson. By providing a metaphor for how we’re all just trying to make ourselves feel good, or even good (despite the pandemic. Which makes this lesson a bit more enduring to avoid pandemic references). Wood says that we all try to get the flesh out of the legs of a live crab “to find little lumps that taste good.”
A little about whether you think of your family as ancestor or ancestor leads. To the recall of the father figure to identify racists through the use of the Confederate flag. This time, he raised the tariffs, noting that some racists had instead covered their property. With too many plain American flags. “I don’t really know what the number is, but there’s a number.”
The following excerpts expand, moving from the concept of White Ally in real life to the way they are portrayed in the film, and emphasizing the image of Leonardo DiCaprio as a brutal racist in Django Unchained doing the actual job. “They like to say, ‘Tom Cruise did his own thing.’ Well, so is Leonardo DiCaprio,” joked Wood. “This is wild stunt!”
Wood took this idea further with two rooms with their callback.
The first involved Wood’s case of why the best civil rights film of them. All could be the first Fast and the Furious film. The second involves revealing that many people depicted infamous civil rights photographs are still alive and breathing today.
Wood also features lengthy tales of celebrities using their fame to free prisoners. He appeals in a very frank and personal way, but only after silly play and bullshit. To illustrate how celebrities can reform popular or at least a more routine practice.
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Although Wood returned to the crab leg metaphor throughout the class, he gave his son his first and the last word on the subject and saved time by watching his son on the phone and finding fun playing with a simple cardboard box. At first, Wood was amazed that “that’s all he needs”. Finally, his son crawled out of the box to the camera and asked: “What makes you happy?”
This class is a stand-up master class.
His opening line on stage, spoken in the darkness of the stage before the lights come on, suggests, “I hope you’re doing well”, but he refuses to ask if it’s true – not only a joke but an excuse for it. Ambitious comedians shouldn’t ask their audience too many unnecessary questions.
Wood’s idol Chris Rock probably garnered a lot of attention with his quarter-century stand-up work. But over the pereoid of past six years, Wood’s work has brought him into the conversation about elite status. Taking a new focus from last year’s Black Lives Matter, Wood shapes our racial relationships in a much more accessible and fun way without having to speak or utter a word so that even the most casual viewer can keep an eye on them.
As funny as it is, Wood doesn’t act, even though he has thought a lot about the spelling and structure of the material. He still feels it like he is talking to us, speaking in front of a collective audience, as if we were all his friends or potential allies sitting across from him. Away from the funny phone calls on the morning radio in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The only thing imperfect about this messenger is the medium he chooses to deliver his message. Even though the Comedy Central’s parent company, The Viacom, spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing their Paramount+ streaming app, you can’t find Imperfect Messenger there. Peanuts, right? At least you can actually find out Roy Wood Jr.: Daddy Figure and Roy Wood Jr.: Nobody loves you there.