Roy Wood Jr. Biography
Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, DJ, actor, producer, podcaster, and writer from the United States. Since 2015, he has worked as a correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.
Roy Wood Jr. Age
Wood is 43 years old as of 2021. He was born Roy Norris Wood Jr.on 11 December 1978 in Illinois, United States.
Roy Wood Jr. Height
Wood stands tall at a height of 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m).
Roy Wood Jr. Family
Roy Wood Sr., Wood’s father, was a Birmingham, Alabama radio broadcasting and journalism pioneer who covered, among other things, the civil rights movement, racism faced by African-American soldiers in the Vietnam War, the Soweto uprising, and the Rhodesian Bush War. Joyce Dugan Wood, a college administrator, is his mother. Sam Wood, his paternal three-times great-grandfather, was born in Africa around 1790. For a time, his parents divorced, and Wood moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with his mother. Wood’s parents reconciled when he was in second grade, and the family relocated to Birmingham, where they lived on South Park Road in Birmingham’s West End neighborhood. Roy L. Wood, a news anchor, is his half-brother.
Roy Wood Jr. Education
Wood went to Center Street Middle School and Central Park Elementary School. In 1996, he graduated from Ramsay High School. Wood graduated from Florida A&M University with a B.S. in broadcast journalism in 2001.
Roy Wood Jr. Wife
Wood lives in Harlem with his girlfriend, shoe designer Salone Monet, and their 2016 son, Henry.
Roy Wood Jr. Imperfect Messenger
Wood Jr. discusses the distinction between “ancestors” and “forefathers,” why Leonardo DiCaprio is the greatest white ally ever, and how celebrities use their celebrity to help people get out of prison.
Roy Wood Jr. Father Figure
Father Figure, his first Comedy Central stand-up special, premiered in 2017, followed by an extended uncensored album of the same name released by Comedy Central Records.
Roy Wood Jr. The Coalition
In 2019, Wood released The Coalition, a series of YouTube videos centered on the Popeye’s Chicken chicken sandwich craze. In 2021, he appeared on the PBS series Finding Your Roots, where it was revealed that he was a distant cousin of civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis.
Roy Wood Jr. Net Worth
Wood has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Roy Wood Jr. Career
Wood worked as a morning news reporter for Birmingham, Alabama radio station WBHJ 95.7 Jamz Hot 105.7 while in college. After filling in for the station’s in-house comedian, Rickey Smiley, he decided to pursue a career in comedy. Wood began his career as a standup comedian when he was 19 years old, in 1998. Wood recalls that in order to open for Tommy Davidson, he passed his midterm exams, effectively failing the semester. On weekends, Wood worked as a dishwasher for the last two years of his college career. Wood returned to Birmingham in 2001, after graduating from college, to become the head writer/producer for the Buckwilde Morning Show (WBHJ 95.7 JAMZ), a position he held until 2006.
He continued to work in radio, contributing prank calls and content to various morning shows across the country, as well as to Jamie Foxx’s Foxxhole station on Sirius XM Radio. Wood put out three prank-call CDs: My Momma Made Me Wear This (2003), Confessions of a Bench Warmer (2005), and I’ll Slap You to Sleep (2006). (2007). Wood’s pranks have appeared on a number of hip-hop mixtapes. Wood relocated to Los Angeles in 2007. In 2010, Wood finished third on NBC’s Last Comic Standing’s seventh season and began hosting his own morning show, The Roy Wood Jr Show. For several years, the show received high ratings and was named ‘Large Market Morning Show of the Year’ by the Alabama Broadcasters Association.
Wood starred in the TBS sitcom Sullivan & Son from 2011 to 2014. He appeared as a guest star in the first season before being promoted to series regular for the second and third seasons. In 2014, Sullivan & Son was canceled. Things I Think, I Think, Wood’s first stand-up comedy CD, was released in 2013. He was cast by ABC in the comedy pilot Delores and Jermaine in 2015, alongside Whoopi Goldberg; the show did not make it past the pilot stage. Wood joined The Daily Show as a correspondent in 2015. Wood relocated to New York City to take the position. Wood has stated that his background in standup comedy, combined with his journalism degree, prepared him for the job.
Wood stated that his work as a sports guest on ESPN and other networks prepared him for The Daily Show by giving him experience with acting, timing, and character development. Wood has appeared as a comedian on numerous late-night talk shows, including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Chelsea Lately, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Conan. On numerous USO tours in the Middle East and the Pacific Islands, Wood has performed for the troops.
Wood announced in 2018 that he would be filming a TV show in Jefferson County, Alabama. Jefferson County Probation, the pilot, began filming in May 2019. A completed pilot for the show, now titled Jefferson County: Probation, was shot for Comedy Central in March 2020, and the show was in development. The show is about two probation officers in Jefferson County, Alabama, and was created in collaboration with Aaron McGruder. It is loosely based on Wood’s 1998 experience as a 19-year-old college student when he was arrested and sentenced to probation for stealing $400 to $500 worth of blue jeans.
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