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In 2018 it was announced that Wood planned on shooting a TV show in Jefferson County Alabama. The pilot called Jefferson County Probation started shooting in May 2019.

Wood lives in Harlem with his girlfriend, shoe designer Salone Monet, and the couple's son (born in 2016).

In 2015, Wood joined The Daily Show as a correspondent. His first Comedy Central stand-up special, Father Figure, premiered in 2017 with an extended uncensored album of the same name released by Comedy Central Records. In 2017, he was named the new host of Comedy Central's storytelling series This Is Not Happening. Wood's second Comedy Central special, Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You, premiered in 2019.

In 2010, Wood finished third in the 7th season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and began hosting his own morning show, The Roy Wood Jr Show. The show garnered top ratings and won 'Large Market Morning Show of the Year' from the Alabama Broadcasters Association for several years. From 2011 to 2014, Wood appeared on TBS' Sullivan & Son, appearing as a guest star in the first season. He was promoted to series regular for the second and third seasons before the show's cancellation in 2014. The following year, he was cast by ABC to play alongside Whoopi Goldberg in the comedy pilot Delores and Jermaine; the show did not make it beyond the pilot stage.

Wood put out his first of three prank call CDs in 2003, titled My Momma Made Me Wear This. The second collection, Confessions of a Bench Warmer, came out in 2005. His third CD, I'll Slap You To Sleep, was released in 2007. Wood's pranks have been featured on numerous hip-hop mix tapes. His first stand-up comedy CD Things I Think, I Think was released in 2013.

Wood moved to Birmingham, Alabama when he was in second grade, and attended Ramsay High School, later graduating from Florida A&M University, during which time he worked as a morning news reporter for Tallahassee, Florida radio station Hot 105.7. He began focusing on a career in comedy after filling in for the station's in-house comedian. He passed on his midterm tests to open for Tommy Davidson. Upon receiving a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism in 2001, Wood returned to his hometown and became the head writer/producer for the Buckwilde Morning Show (WBHJ 95.7 JAMZ) in Birmingham, a position he held until 2007. He continued working in radio, providing prank calls and content to various morning shows nationally and contributing to Jamie Foxx's Foxxhole station on Sirius XM Radio.

Roy Wood Jr. (born December 11, 1978) is an American comedian and actor. He has served as a correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central since 2015.