Roy Wood Jr. got The Daily Show seven years after bombing while auditioning during the Jon Stewart era

The New York Times

Wood, who stars in the new Comedy Central special Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You, finally made it on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah after Neal Brennan recommended him as “weirdly sophisticated and working class." “Maybe it’s because he’s Southern, but there’s an authenticity to his point of view that isn’t shaped by popular opinion,” says Trevor Noah. “He questions everything and he challenges the ideas so many of us have accepted as normal.”