Roy Wood Jr. Takes on White House Correspondents' Dinner with Humor and Responsibility.

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Roy Wood Jr. Takes on White House Correspondents' Dinner with Humor and Responsibility.
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Comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is set to host the White House Correspondents' Dinner, hoping to make people laugh and bring up issues that have fallen through the cracks. Wood takes the comedy seriously, calling it a great opportunity to deliver a "state of the constituency address." He has been analyzing every single thing that's been going on in the country to prepare for the event, and hopes to find the third side of an issue and connect it in an unexpected way. Wood's father, Roy Wood Sr., was a pioneering Black radio journalist.

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