“They rioted because they didn’t want to work until they were 64,” said Roy Wood Jr. said Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner about the recent rebellion over pension reform in France. “Now we have an 80-year-old man in America begging us for four more years of work,” he said. Daily show the correspondent added, with President Joe Biden standing just a few feet away.
“Let me finish the job,” Wood continued about POTUS’s recently announced re-election campaign. “It’s not a campaign slogan, it’s an appeal.”
With Biden on stage at the Washington Hilton in front of Beltway and Hollywood’s elite for the current administration’s second personal WHCD, Wood may not have the notoriety of his old boss and last year’s star Trevor Noah, but the Alabama high Strip was in Flames tonight. In a routine that ranged from mocking those in power to a meditation on racism, sexism (especially against VP Kamala Harris), American democracy and the need for an honest free press, Wood brought down the house and a strong POTUS law of a lover one behind. Storage.
“Tonight we are all united under one thing and that is scandal,” Wood said at the start of his remarks. “Scandals have engulfed careers this year,” he noted of Fox News and CNN’s pink slip of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon and the $787.5 million settlement of Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News on day one of 2020 campaign claims which was made in what appeared to be a damning libel. lawsuit for forgery.
“The untouchable Tucker Carlson has no job,” Wood said with perfect pitch from the stage. “Some people celebrate it,” he told an audience that was particularly pleased with the dethroned unique ratings. “To the Tucker staff, I want you to know that I know how you feel. i work at The daily show So I was caught off guard by the sudden departure of a fake news show host,” he added, referring to Noah, who left the Comedy Central series in recent months.
Tucker was caught. Caught like the old van vanderpump rules,Wood said Bravo in the crowd with members of the Limbo low reality show.
“Speaking of bullshit, Don Lemon is out of a job,” Wood continued, touching on material Biden has previously explored in a more gentle way. Don Lemon. My dog, Don Lemon. Don Lemon issued a statement saying he was fired from CNN, after which CNN issued a statement saying they offered Don a meeting. They had to break up because Don Lemon can’t even accurately tell a story about Don Lemon.
With the First and Second families at the top table next to him in the Washington Hilton ballroom, Wood was naturally forced to beat out Biden and Vice President Harris. Part of the brilliance of his routine tonight was how the former journalism student repeatedly and deftly flipped the script.
“Say what you will about our president, when he wakes up from that nap, the job is done,” Wood noted of Biden, who has often been criticized for his age and infirmities. “He might fall asleep, but then it’s the infrastructure bill. Student loan forgiveness. Bring home Brittney Griner.”
Wood opened up about the scandals of Donald Trump’s presidency and post-presidency and more or less looked at the soft underside of the current administration.
“I think the Biden administration’s most offensive scandal has been laid at the feet of our vice president,” Wood said, returning to his main topic. “The scandal of: What is Kamala doing?” he continued. “What a disrespectful question. It’s an irreverent question because no one asked the vice president that question until a woman got the job. I don’t know what Mike Pence did. All I know about Mike Pence is that he’s a very good hide-and-seek in the Capitol.”
“At the end of the day, being a vice president just has to be better than Dick Cheney,” Wood said flatly, referring to the Veep’s nickname, Darth Vader. “If the vice presidential job is really just waiting for her to step in to save the country in an emergency, then the vice presidential job is the perfect job for a black woman — it shouldn’t be, but it is, ” he said calling the WHCD chapter. the crowd waited to see where he would take it all. “And whatever you do, whatever you do, all they do is give a man credit for everything you do … they’ll only give a man credit for what you do.” By the way, Mr. President, great job as the first female vice president… I don’t even know how you did it, great job.
Unlike Biden and Harris, scandal-plagued Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wasn’t at the WHCD tonight, but he was on Wood’s thoughtful target list — in fun and not-so-fun ways.
“The anti-CRT policy is an attack on black history and an attempt to erase black contributions,” Wood said of the GOP’s and others’ criticism of critical race theory as a concept and curriculum. “A lot of black people won’t mind some of this deletion … as long as that black person is Clarence Thomas.”
“We can all see Clarence Thomas … but he’s owned by billionaire Harlan Crow — and that’s what an NFT is,” Wood continued, citing the unreported luxury travel, real estate deals and more. Thomas and his family are the beneficiaries of a man who has done business for SCOTUS.
During his debut moment in the Beltway spotlight and Saturday with his mother in the ballroom, Wood also made a point to shed light on his parents’ work in their offices and the world. The comedian also praised the power of local journalism in a country where many cities and towns are losing local reporting.
The veteran stand-up comedian dared to challenge the bigwigs on himself and his business model, including Shari Redstone and several of Wood’s own bosses from Paramount Global, and offered the media advice for them in today’s divided America. “All substantial, honest and nuanced reporting,” Wood said, “is all locked behind a paywall. … You can say what you want about a conspiracy theory, but at least it’s affordable.”
Not for the first time and not for the last time tonight, Roy Wood Jr. received a moving and well-deserved response.
Source: Deadline
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