
Last fall, Roy Wood Jr. took his seven-year-old son with him to clean out his office at “The Daily Show.” Wood had been working at “The Daily Show” since his son was a baby. This had been dad’s stable 9 to 5. But all of that was about to change.
“I took him with me to understand the ending of one thing and the beginning of another thing,” Wood told me during a recent visit to Salon’s New York studio. “That's something I don't think he'll put together until he's way older.”