I'm always a bit floored when I hear Roy Wood Jr. in an interview. On stage his personality is so big, in interviews he is so much more soft spoken. It really makes me respect the energy he puts forth on stage.

That was genuine of Conan at the end. You can see he truly means that, bc yes... Roy is extremely impressive on how he can intelligently put through his work . He showcases the best of both his parents

Hope Roy takes over for Trevor, it just makes sense.

"I feel better knowing you're out there." That's the tightest anyone has captured the feeling I get watching Roy.

Superbly said about media consumption changes bc of the pandemic. Conan's words at the end were just chef's kiss. Seriously deserved bc Roy is a treasure! He killed it at the DC Improv just last week - highly recommended to catch him on tour while it's still going!

Conan's praise of Roy is spot on at the end of this interview. Salute & peace.

“How do you parody Marjorie Taylor Greene?” Is a profound and difficult question

Conan is a goofster and loves derailing conversations. But Roy's calm demeanor and sense of duty to his craft seems to leave Conan quiet docile and respectful in this episode. In a good way! I love Conan's "there was talk of gerbils" style of interviewing, but it is nice to get an honest, quality episode of actual meaningful content.

Roy Wood Jr. is just great. Loved finding out about his teen years with his dad and the lessons he learned in school out of school back in school again . . . He's a man with the tools to grow as a human being, and since that human being has chosen to be a comic, I expect to enjoy his burgeoning insight for years to come or until I die, which could be tomorrow.

If Jon Stewart is not returning then Roy is the natural choice. I luv his comedy he is smart funny and relatable

I'd like to see Conan guest host the Daily Show.

Roy is absolutely correct about the ways of news consumption changing. For the past 6 months, I've received breaking news from a talking fish on TikTok (yes, you read that right). It's just insane now.

Trevor's a legend who was so right for The Daily Show at the right time, but Roy Wood was absolutely my favorite correspondent overall...high praise given everyone on that show!

Roy and Conan, so good to see you in my feed! Love you both 💜🙏🏽🕊️

Thanks Conan. Your take on Late Night TV is so spot on, from my POV. Keep it up. You make a difference with a distinction. I’m a mathematical physicist, not a lawyer.

Conan you brought a tear to my eye. Thank goodness you've pivoted to podcast.

This was a very eloquent exposition of the changing media landscape.

Roy is a force! Love the vibes and thoughtfulness

He is so right about Tim.

Talk about hitting the nail on the head.

Roy's joke about Django Unchained is the best! Make the Daily Show Great Again!

An interesting conversation.

Two of the best

Brilliant insight from Roy

Roy Wood Jr. is right, even more so with the writers and SAG strike - I've been missing my late night commentary regarding current events and politics. He makes a great point about anyone reporting the news today and I've encountered many influencers who are posting inaccurate info, not knowing historical facts AND just opinion, and when I've questioned their sources or opinion, some get really defensive, rather than providing supportive facts. He's right about the people questioning everything these days, bc mis-information, AI and opinion does not replace factual news.

Toy wood sounds like he belongs in a boys 2men soundtrack lol

Word!!

Roy is an incredibly talented and thoughtful person. I'm glad he's around.

Why isn't anyone talking about Roy's shirt? It's a great shirt!!

The irony is that many of us get our news from late-night satire. Trevor, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and their teams often do a better job of breaking down the news than professional journalists - and make all the crazy news more palatable with humor.

❤❤❤ I agree with Conan!❤❤❤

Roy Wood Jr suprised me in this. I never really enjoyed his style of comedy - that's just a question of taste. Seeing him like this, as a completely different person, reminds how much of entertainment is an act. And I knew that before, knew that it has to be, but sometimes I forget. Great, thoughtful conversattion. Loved this.

I’m just impressed by how smart all these comedians are.

I love you Roy!

Would love for Roy to take over

very good

is this live?

He's my favorite comedian right now, probably in top 5 of all time. And, I'm old AF.

Love that denim jacket you're wearing! What brand is it, if i may ask?

Roy Wood is showing WHY his comedy is so intellectual. He understands the comedy playing field.

Hope Roy is a part of whatever the next is

Roy Wood Jr. is super smart and funny

Minhaj as the host!

1:40 just say Harvard Lampoon, Conan, everyone knows you went to harvard😂

Two questions: 1) Roy is STILL on Daily Show? 2) Trevor left? I'm so in the dark! >_

❤❤

johnny carson did something similar-just randomly announced it.

conan are u live?

Apparently for Conan to give someone a heartfelt comment, he can't look them in the eyes while doing it. I'd bet if he did, his desire to goof on the person would be too strong.

I wanted roy the most of the guest hosts

News report today is that they offered the show to Hasan Minhaj. Who’ll be a good host. My man Roy is a legend though; would love to see what he could do with it.

Two really smart dudes having a conversation….

Im sure Conan heared those encouraging words from David when he was starting out. What a way to pass the torch to Roy.

Did he give @Timcast a shout out?

Trevor was (in)famous in South Africa for bucking the ensemble nature of comedy there, by striking out on his own, so it struck me as odd or at least uncharacteristic that his tenure as TDS host featured the strongest correspondents and other supporting personalities of that show I've ever seen. I say this as a fan since the Kilborn days.

None can parody a parody 😂

Roy’s good. Very clever. New host for sure.

What? There was all kinds of prior talk in the trades about how low the Daily Show ratings were and how it was losing money for the network. If there's anybody who knows about this subject, it's Conan.

Roy instantly took a macro snapshot and came up with an insightful solution to a huge question Conan tossed out there, almost rhetorically. He's clearly supposed to be the new host of TDS since he just mapped out its next steps.

The real news has become so absurd it almost can't be parodied.

NO👏BODY👏 knew Trevor Noah was leaving The Daily Show until he said it on the show?!?! 0:28

That’s called "Pulling a Ziggy Stardust" .. It’s how Bowie broke up ThemSpiders From Mars!

Late night will probably need to become serious news since news now is just a parody 😂

Whoa! This was an unexpected profound take on modern media. What if society really is so broken that parody on it doesn't work anymore? Thats some scary concept to think about.

It is an interesting question, but the news outlets did this to themselves. In chasing the lowest possible common denominator, and ceding the investigative aspect of journalism to endless "editorializations", they made journalism into something anyone with an opinion could do. Maybe with time, the vast majority will tire of the nonsense and crave real journalism again... but I suspect we will have to go through an even nastier period than we've already been through before we get to that point. The true legacy of Fox News wont just be Trump and the breakdown of politics, but the breakdown of the entire media landscape as well. And everyone will be too late to react to it. 🤷

conan im just chillin

Ahhhh....comedy central is dead, Roy Jr. Is too talented for the daily show. Keep moving Roy❤

conan the girl back in the rum days

I was shocked by Trevor’s departure because he was seemingly on fire. All you people who say the show hasn’t been good in years blah blah haven’t watched it in years, because I’m telling you that Trevor Noah’s final year on TDS was as good as the show has ever been, including when Jon Stewart was at his best. Search out videos of the show from 2022. It was so good. But it’s now evident that wasn’t just because of Noah, because the fact that the quality stayed at such a high level throughout all the different guest hosts is a tribute to its writing and production team, which is as good as anything on television. But I do sense two phenomena about the timing of his departure, which he shared with James Corden, another foreigner on US TV. I think, because they weren’t American, they could see something coming that the rest of us were blind to - maybe not the strike specifically, but they knew that everything was about to change and not for the better, and they both got out on top without having to see their shows diminished and become less relevant. But there’s another aspect to this as well. Remember the prime ministers of New Zealand and Finland also resigned, who were around the same age as Noah and Corden. What they all shared was a sense that they got to do a job they wanted, did it well for a decent amount of time, and then decided to go on to other things, even if that meant they would never again have that level of power and influence and money. It’s as if there’s a word in the vocabulary of millennials that’s missing from that of the boomers: enough. Trevor had that job for enough time. He reached his peak; he achieved mastery; why continue until he wasn’t as masterful any more?

My thing about Roy Wood Jr. is that while Steve Harvey is a country dude making jokes that's sanitized for middle American consumption, he's country but makes jokes about things that are more important and is qualified to do so.

3:39 it's a good point, but it's 10-15 years too late

Does late night really have to parody the news?

He's not wrong

Roy needs a coffee, holy damn.

But what does Ja Rule think?

The educational system has failed a whole generation because lots of people don't know how to do research and think critically. Everyone wants the "answer" or "summary" not considering the bias of the one creating them.

I loved Trevor until he interviewed Will Smith. Roy is awesome 🥰

Noice

Good that Noah is gone. He wasn't an adequate successor.

85th view!! A cock-a-roo!!

Tyler the Creator's Dad

We need to care deeply about WHERE & HOW we consume news. ‘ Tim” Roy’s example- is not a newscaster, even if he has a nice camera with a good lens. All these people, particularly young people who purport themselves to be ‘ influencers” were probably 15-years old, 5 years ago-; so I don’t put too much stock in the little videos that KZfaq allows them to distribute. Sure, it’s better than working at a fast food restaurant, but we definitely need to vett where alleged news comes from. Does the producers of certain ‘news’ have a financial/ narrow personal interest in seeing the ‘rise of the falsehoods’?

2:21 Conan makes himself look old here. 😂 Roy was clearly referring to new forms of news consumption like TikTok, not wether or not Republicans have become real-life parodies.

Parodies used to have to be an extreme or ridiculous characature of news programs, but now th@ the news programs have morphed themselves into extreme or ridiculous characters, possibly now some of the comedy has to either become more straight laced or evolve into something new. 🤔🤷🏾‍♂️ Idk

When parody turns to parroting

Daily Show has sucked since Stewart left.

John was great. Trevor sucked, hopefully TDS is smart & pick Roy, Jordan, or Desi to be next host.

GRADY

tf is Trevor Noah?

Roy should be the host of the Daily show NOT the unfunny uninsightful Hasan Minhoj.

I find Roy's observations frustrating. The 'modern' news consumption still works for TDS because the only solution to some of the ridiculous nature of journalism today is to consume in aggregate and observe what doesn't hold water which is the same as it ever was (e.g. before twitter). The act of aggregating this news and producing entertaining content still works. Also, I wish there was lessons learned by why TDS has always found an audience: it was never 'late night' viewing. Sure comedy central premiered an episode in the evening but it also rebroadcasted the next day, and was available as VOD. I think I have watched TDS a handful of times at premiere on TV, many hundreds of times on the next-day rebroadcast, and thousands of times via VOD. Compare that to how fundamentally unwatchable TV news is either live or in VOD format: 1 minute of maybe an actual news item and 14 minutes of completely horseshit opinion and speculation among nobodies and hangers-on without talking to anyone of interest. Collecting all those 1 minute news items from all over the place and finding the joke is not some mysterious mountain to climb and still is a common grounding to build something for a wide audience.

Roy Wood, Desi Ledic or Jordan Klepper. All would be great. And certainly better than Trevor Noah who, I am sorry, did not have the goods for The Daily Show.

How do you parody Joe Biden lol

Noah was articulate and smart but not quite as charismatic and funny as stewart. I'd personally prefer Hasan Minaj taking over the daily show. Or better yet, have colbert kidnapped from cbs and brought back to comedy central to have his old self host the show again.

Roy is actually funny. Trevor is not.

How should late night change if the networks want to keep viewers? Easy. Stop parodying the news bc the news on both Fox and CNN has been a parody of itself for years..yawn. All of them - Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Kimmel, Fallon told the same jokes, spoon fed by MSM, for years. I like Bill Burr, Louis CK, Chappelle bc they don't bend the knee. When MSM figures this out, don't hold your breath, and adjusts, they'll get their late night audience back - the ones who haven't left permanently, like me

How do you parody mtg? The same way you do Biden or Trump or AOC or Bernie.

Yeah. Way to belittle the joe blo at home making content. You aren't entitled to views just cos you're heavily scripted and have big flashy shows on traditional media. Tough.

The Daily Show hasn't been funny or relevant in some time. It just comes off as Snarky, Government and State run Propaganda. John Stewart had something unique going on in the 2000's. Now, it's a joke and not even a funny one.

I watched Stewart's DS every night. I gave Trevor a year and a half. Finally had to throw in the towel. He was unwatchable. Since I'm passed and over the DS, doesn't matter who. Roy Wood is not as good as klepper. And I love me some klepper. Neither are a good fit for host. It takes a je ne sais quos...but those 2 ain't it. If you want someone who is not even as funny as the 2nd funny person in the office, then Desi would be good. Hmmm. Who's worse. Trevor or Desi as host. Dammnnn. That's tough. They are both unwatchable in their own unique way