Roy Wood Jr. Roasts POTUS, VP Harris “Scandal,” Tucker Carlson & “A**hole” Don Lemon In Rousing WHCD Headlining Debut
deadline.com“They rioted because they didn’t want to work until 64,” Roy Wood Jr. said tonight at tonight at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner of recent uprisings over pension reform in France. “Meanwhile in America we have an 80-year-old man begging us for four more years of work,” the Daily Show correspondent added with President Joe Biden sitting just a few away “Let me finish the job,” Wood Jr.
went on to say of POTUS’ recently announced reelection campaign. “That’s not a campaign slogan, that’s a plea.” Following Biden at the podium of the Washington Hilton in front of the Beltway and Hollywood elite for the second in-person WHCD of the current administration, Roy Wood Jr.
may not have the name recognition of his old boss and last year’s headliner Trevor Noah, but the Alabama-raised comic was on fire on Saturday.
In a routine that went from mockery of the powerful to a meditation on racism, sexism (especially against VP Kamala Harris), bruised American democracy and the need for an honest free press, Wood brought the house down and left a strong POTUS performance as a fond memory. “Tonight, we are all unified under one thing, and that’s scandal,” Wood Jr.
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