In front of a national audience and with the President of the United States seated a few feet away, Roy Wood Jr. rose to the occasion as the featured entertainer at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

The Alabama-raised comedian followed in the footsteps of other performers like Sinbad, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Wanda Sykes and his former colleague Trevor Noah assigned the tall task of roasting POTUS and the mainstream media directly to their faces.

The 44-year-old comic’s star has risen the last several years through his hilarious work as a correspondent on “The Daily Show (which he guest hosted in April), several standup specials and a growing number of acting roles in film and television. But the spotlight never shined brighter on Wood than it did Saturday night with President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and seemingly every member of the D.C. news media in the same room.

And it’s safe to say: Wood knocked ‘em dead. He roasted Biden, Tucker Carlson, Clarence Thomas, the Chinese spy balloon, the media industry as a whole and everything else he could fit into a jam-packed 25-minute set. Here are 10 jokes that had us in stitches.

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Classified documents

“Y’all give it up for Dark Brandon,” Wood said as he took the stage following Biden’s remarks, before he took a swift jab targeting POTUS and his predecessor. “Real quick, Mr. President,” Wood said, unfolding white sheets of paper, “I think you left some of your classified documents up here.” He began to hand them back to the president before changing his mind. “No, don’t give ‘em to him. I’ll put them in a safe please. He don’t know where to keep ‘em.”

‘Dominion, Cardi B or Gwyneth Paltrow’

Dressed in a designer tuxedo of his own, Wood noted the glammed-up press corps in attendance, cracking it looked like everybody “got a little piece of that settlement money from Fox News,” while referencing the network’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation charges. But Wood played it cool. “I’m not fixin’ to have Dominion on my ass,” he continued. “I love Dominion. As a matter of fact, let me just say right now, my favorite voting machine is Dominion voting machine…If your election needs the truth, put Dominion in your booth! I ain’t fixing to get sued. It’s three people you don’t want to see in the courtroom. That’s Dominion, Cardi B or Gwyneth Paltrow. You gon’ lose.”

Tucker Carlson and ‘fake news’

Wood (and Biden) spent a few lines on Tucker Carlson, who recently parted ways with Fox News. “The untouchable Tucker Carlson is out of a job,” Wood said, met with a smattering of applause. “Some people celebrate it. But to Tucker’s staff, I want you to know I know what you’re feeling. I work at ‘The Daily Show,’ so I too have been blindsided by the sudden departure of the host of a fake news program.”

Don Lemon is out of a job

Transitioning from Carlson, Wood said “Speaking of a–holes, Don Lemon is out of a job.” He then joked about Don Lemon’s departure from CNN, noting the longtime host claimed he wasn’t told about his termination directly by network management while CNN publicly said he was given an opportunity to meet with them. “They had to part ways because Don Lemon can’t even accurately report a story about Don Lemon,” Wood said. “That ain’t how you fire somebody. It’s messed up. How funny is it that you work in the news then watch on the news that you got fired from the news. Don Lemon is now the most obnoxious guy in the history of CNN. That’s now fair. Even Jeffrey Toobin’s lookin’ at Don Lemon like, ‘Ohh, he rub me the wrong way.’”

Trump arrest = pot brownie

Calling him “the king of scandals,” Wood then joked about former President Donald Trump and said his recent arraignment when he was faced with a 34-count felony indictment charging him in a scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs. “Can we just all be honest and say that the Trump arrest didn’t hit like we thought it was going to hit?” Wood said. “We’re so desensitized to scandals now, that Trump arrest, it didn’t do what I thought it was gonna do. The Trump arrest was like a pot brownie you ate four hours ago…’Do I feel justice? This don’t feel like justice. Let me try one of them Georgia arraignment brownies. Maybe that’ll kick in.’”

‘This is America. We don’t pass laws.’

Wood said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tries to activate voters by passing controversial laws in his home state, which he said is not how government works in this country. “That’s not how you activate voters in this country, Ron,” Wood said. “Everybody knows how you do politics. This is America. We don’t pass laws. You make a promise to voters, and then you don’t do it. That’s what the great leaders in this room understand. You know how to make things not happen.”

Clarence Thomas, Instagram model

Wood called out DeSantis for riling people up about topics like Critical Race Theory (CRT), saying people who are anti-CRT are trying to erase Black people and their contributions to American history. “A lot of Black people wouldn’t mind some of that erasure, as long as that Black person is Clarence Thomas,” Wood said, referencing trips the Supreme Court justice took that were paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. “Flying Clarence Thomas all over the world on unreported trips, like a Instagram model, takin’ Clarence to the Maldives and the beaches…” Wood said he had to “give it up” to billionaires. “Y’all always come up with something new to buy,” he said. “Y’all always come up with something new to buy. Just when you think of everything you could buy on Earth, a billionaire will come up with a new thing. Y’all buy space rockets, you bought Twitter. This man bought a Supreme Court justice. Do you own how rich you have to be to buy a Supreme…a Black one on top of that? There’s only two in stock! And Harlan Crow owns half the inventory.”

Biden begging to work

Wood then referenced news in France when protestors rioted in resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. “Meanwhile in America, we have an 80-year-old man begging us for four more years of work,” Wood joked about Biden. “‘Let me finish the job.’ That’s not a campaign slogan, that’s a plea.” Wood then wished Biden luck on the campaign trail.

‘What does Kamala do?’

After quipping about Biden’s age and need for naps before getting work done, Wood said “the most insulting scandal to fall to the feet of the Biden administration was placed at the feet of our Madame Vice President,” the scandal of “What does Kamala do?” He called it a disrespectful question, adding “Nobody ever asked that question of the vice president until a woman got the job. I don’t know what Mike Pence did. The only thing I know about Mike Pence is that he’s really good at playing hide-and-seek at the Capitol. You gotta be crafty to catch Mike Pence in that Capitol, baby. He know all the nooks and crannies.”

‘My daddy tells war stories like Brian Williams’

Wood mentioned his father Roy Wood Sr.’s career as a journalist, covering the front lines with Black platoons in Vietnam and the South African Soweto riots. When his father returned home, he co-founded the National Black Network because he wanted to tell Black stories, American Urban Radio Network now. “And I know it was hard, because Black daddies love telling you when something was difficult,” Wood said. “‘They were shootin’ at me, boy, but I never dropped my tape recorder.’ My daddy tells war stories like Brian Williams.” Williams was NBC News’ lead anchor from 2004 until 2015, when he was suspended for falsely claiming that he had been in a helicopter hit by enemy fire during the Iraq War. Wood looked into the audience and said, “Lester Holt didn’t laugh at that one.”

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