His latest Comedy Central special, Imperfect Messenger is a fantastic hour
Roy Wood Jr. in Imperfect Messenger. Photo: Sean Gallagher/Comedy Central There’s a quality to a Roy Wood Jr. special that feels a little like going to church. His delivery has a rhythm that accelerates, then pauses; it gets noisy, then holds silence for a few moments. It’s there in the rhetorical shapes, too — Wood has gotten especially comfortable with the structure of a theme woven over an hour that creates a sense of unity but is roomy enough for a variety of premises and tones.
The idea Wood uses to launch Imperfect Messenger, and the line he returns to throughout the hour, is a theme and variations on how we’re all just trying to feel good. It starts with an acknowledgment of the coronavirus pandemic, a graceful recognition of our current shared reality, and then Wood spins it out into a longer, more universally applicable entry point into all sorts of topics.
Imperfect Messenger does echo Wood’s 2017 special, Father Figure, and he returns to many of the same topics. His incredible Confederate-flag opener from Father Figure is modulated into a shorter but just as punchy flag joke here.
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