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Roy Wood Jr.

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

CHAPTER

The Power of Comedy

Comedy is a tool of manipulation. It's like telling with your mouth. My father saw every horrible thing that you could name because he just had to cover it in the name of journalism. So nothing's funny to him. And so case in point, when he worked at WVON in Chicago, my father was the first news director at this black owned black news station That we are a news station that only does black news.

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