Backstage with the “Daily Show” comic (and next host?), Roy Wood, as he worked on Tucker Carlson jokes and navigated the party scene at White House correspondents’ dinner weekend.
Wood began rehearsing about three weeks before the dinner, doing multiple drop-in sets a night at the Comedy Cellar in New York.
They quickly decided that the audience was too White to make a Lori Harvey joke. And the Black journalists in the room would appreciate a joke about the Shade Room, but there probably wouldn’t be enough Black journalists there for it to be worth it. The nation’s capital is several cities in one. There is, of course, Official Washington: the Georgetown aristocrats, the suburban enclaves of the far northwest, and the largely White professional class that populates much of Capitol Hill, Adams Morgan and Shaw, as well as recently created places such as the Wharf, CityCenter and NoMa.
“My daddy said, ‘Ain’t nobody wanna watch Black people dance for an hour.’ One of the most epic bag fumbles in history!” Wood said once he got ahold of the microphone. arguing with his mother. Moments earlier, the two had met and posed for a photo with Vice President Harris, who, sensing the comic’s nerves, reminded Wood that “everything you’ve done has brought you to this moment.” His mother, dressed in an elegant two-tone green dress that she pointedly noted had been charged tocredit card — not his — emerged from the photo line in a visible daze. But now, Joyce Dugan Wood wanted to know why her son hadn’t spent more time with her this weekend.
Now it was showtime. He opened with one of the last jokes added to the set, a riff about Biden leaving a classified document on the lectern. Much of the audience, he said, probably thought he was SNL’s Kenan Thompson. The president, he joked, probably thought he was the dad from “Family Matters.” Drag queens are not trying to groom children, he said to applause. And besides, the children were likely to get killed in a school shooting, anyway. The crowd sighed, according to plan.
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