Comedian and Sloss Tech 2024 Emcee

A native of Birmingham, Roy Wood, Jr. is a comedian, and Emmy-nominated documentary producer for the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground. Wood began his comedy career in 1998 at 19 while attending Florida A&M University. In 2006, he debuted on network television on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2008, he appeared on HBO’s historic Def Comedy Jam and was selected by America as one of the top three finalists on Last Comic Standing on NBC. More recently, he has served as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and host of Comedy Central’s award-winning podcast, The Daily Show: Beyond the Scenes. Roy has appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyer, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and has performed on numerous USO Tours for our Troops stationed everywhere from Guam to Iraq to the Philippines. Forbes once declared that he is “One of comedy’s best journalists.” Entertainment Weekly has described his thought-provoking comedy as “. . . charismatic crankiness. . .” and Variety Magazine labeled him as “One of 10 Comics to Watch.”