Roy Wooden Jr. and Desi Lydic on humor, politics and the way forward for 'The Each day Present'

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If Roy Wooden Jr. and Desi Lydic know who’s taking on for Trevor Noah as host of “The Each day Present,” they aren’t sharing.

“Is it you, is it you?” the pair jokingly requested one another when the topic got here up of their interview with Muricas News.

Whereas they're properly conscious that it’s the query of the second, they're selecting to give attention to the work at hand.

And there may be loads of it. The present just lately made a cease in Atlanta, the place the midterms have been on loads of individuals’s minds.

For Wooden, “The Each day Present” – with its mixture of comedy and present occasions – is a gig that permits him to mix his passions.

“You realize, my father was a civil rights journalist and tackled a number of the identical points, however with out punch strains,” he advised Muricas News. “To have the ability to have a job I like as a result of it’s my journalism diploma and my love for standup rolled into one burrito.”

Each Wooden and Lydic are having fun with their time on the present

For Lydic, a spotlight is doing her section “Foxsplains,” which spoofs proper wing media protection.

“We began discovering that generally we'd say one thing so absurd after which we'd hear the identical factor mirrored again on some proper wing media station and we’re like ‘Oh no,’” Lydic mentioned.

With the ability to discover humor in tough tales – from politics to race and the pandemic – is a part of the magic of “The Each day Present,” Wooden mentioned.

“I believe that there’s sure matters the place individuals want time to heal,” he mentioned. “Trevor’s additionally had a great finger on the heart beat of when it’s time to joke and when it’s time to be poignant.”

Lydic agrees and mentioned, “It seems like now greater than ever, individuals have the insatiable must snicker.”

“And I believe on the present it seems like, over the previous couple of years, we’ve given ourselves permission to not make a joke when it doesn’t really feel proper to make a joke about one thing,” she mentioned. “And Trevor is extraordinarily considerate about that and keen to have a dialog about reacting to one thing that occurred with out feeling the stress to have an enormous punchline.”

Noah was equally considerate, it appears, about his resolution to go away.

“What’s been dope is that Trevor made the announcement after which there was every week of ‘What?!’ after which it was proper again to work,” Wooden mentioned. “Trigger there’s nonetheless a midterm available. There’s nonetheless an election that’s gonna be arising. So within the meantime, I’m simply gonna give attention to making an attempt to make a great present as a result of if we’re not cautious, you possibly can lose sight of what it's essential to be engaged on day-after-day.”

“The Each day Present” airs at 11 p.m. ET weeknights on Comedy Central.