Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer, and WGA nominated writer. He served for 8 years as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning The Daily Show (2015-2023). In 2023, Wood Jr. guest hosted The Daily Show and headlined the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017. Roy’s fourth stand-up special, Lonely Flowers, premiered on Hulu January 17th, 2025.
Roy is the host of CNN’s Have I Got News for You, an American adaptation of a long-running UK comedy series, which premiered September 2024 and just wrapped its fourth season. Wood Jr. will be a series regular in the upcoming TV adaption of Barbershop on Prime Video and has guest appearances in Only Murders in the Building, Better Call Saul, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He co-starred alongside Jon Hamm in 2022 Paramount Pictures’ long-awaited Fletch remake, Confess, Fletch, appeared in the 2025 Sundance film Love, Brooklyn, and will appear alongside Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill in the upcoming comedy Outcome.
He recently partnered with Crown Publishing to pen a memoir, The Man of Many Fathers, which was released in October 2025.
