01 May 2023

Another Daily Show Doing Standup at the White House Correspondents' Dinner


Meh

Roy Wood, Jr.

I was not impressed.

It wasn't bad, but it was rather anodyne.

When you have this level of pomposity and arrogance in one place, the crowd you play to should be the rest of the country.

I don't expect Stephen Colbert's legendary take-down, or Michelle Wolfe's, but something on the level of Trevor Noah last year.

I get that Wood got his start doing radio reporting, and that his dad was a journalistic icon, but there were too many lines that were playing to the White House problem drinkers correspondents.

The White House press corps(e) needs to be deflated a bit at such an event, and he did not.

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