Roy Wood Jr. Biography

Fast Facts

• Entertainment Weekly named him one of 12 comics to watch in 2009
• Graduated from Florida A&M University in 2001 with a Bachelor's of Science in broadcast journalism
• After graduating from college, he served as head writer and producer of the Buckwilde Morning Show, a radio show broadcast from Birmingham, Ala
• Known for his prank calls, which have been played on dozens of radio markets in multiple countries and compiled into comedy albums
• Known for delivering humorous and honest insight into his life and the world and appealing to a wide audience
• One year, he missed his college midterms in order to take an opportunity to open for comic Tommy Davidson
• His dream wedding would begin with a funeral for the "Old Roy" in which pallbearers carry away a casket full of tokens of his bachelorhood like pictures of ex-girlfriends and Hot Pockets