{"id":131129,"date":"2023-02-02T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=131129"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:37:36","slug":"roy-wood-jr-to-be-featured-entertainer-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/roy-wood-jr-to-be-featured-entertainer-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Wood Jr. To Be Featured Entertainer At White House Correspondents’ Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Wood Jr. will be this year’s featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on April 29.<\/p>\n

The Daily Show<\/em> correspondent has a standup special, Imperfect Messenger, streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

The gig is a high profile assignment — drawing attention across cable news networks and countless clips on social media — but it’s also one of the most challenging. The entertainer typically follows the president on stage, in the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom packed with almost 3,000 guests.<\/p>\n

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“Roy Wood Jr. brings a journalistic eye to his comedy. He’s hilarious — but also makes sure his audiences are thinking as they laugh,” Tamara Keith, the WHCA president and White House correspondent for NPR, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“My aim for this year’s dinner is to lift up the importance of a free and independent press to a functioning democracy, so I am thrilled to be able to feature a comedian who gets what journalism is all about.”<\/p>\n

Wood was a broadcast journalism major at Florida A&M University when he launched his career in standup. He was morning news host at a Tallahassee radio station, followed by his own show on WBHL in Birmingham, AL, and three years at WALR in Atlanta. He joined The Daily Show<\/em> as a correspondent in 2015. He’s appeared on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam<\/em> and numerous other late night comedy shows, and was a top three finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing<\/em>. He also was executive producer of the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wood’s father, Roy Wood Sr., was a radio and TV journalist who covered the civil rights movement, the South African Soweto race riots and the Rhodesia\/Zimbabwe civil war, and he also reported from the front lines in Vietnam. <\/p>\n

Last year’s entertainer was Trevor Noah, who recently departed as host of The Daily Show<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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