Roy Wood Jr. To Host WGA Awards NYC Ceremony With Ronny Chieng, Jesse Eisenberg, Rosie Perez Among Presenters
deadline.comComedian Roy Wood Jr. will host the 77th Annual Writers Guild Awards in New York next month. WGA nominations were announced yesterday after being postponed amid LA wildfires.
The awards are still set to unspool in concurrent ceremonies on both coasts — the Edison Ballroom in New York and the Beverly Hilton in LA — on Feb.
15. NYC presenters include Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, Interior Chinatown), Adriana Diaz (CBS Mornings), Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), Cole Escola (Hacks, Oh Mary!), Bridget Moynahan (Blue Bloods), Michael McKean (The Diplomat), Annette O’Toole (Virgin River, A Mighty Wind) Rosie Perez (The Flight Attendant), Meredith Scardino (Girls5eva), Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night Live), DeWanda Wise (Three Women, She’s Gotta Have It) and Michael Zegen (Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel, The Penguin). Wood is currently host of CNN satire Have I Got News For You. He wrote and starred in the Writers Guild Award-nominated series Command Z, produced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary The Neutral Ground, was a guest host and correspondent on Comedy Central’s Writers Guild Award-nominated and Emmy-winning The Daily Show and headlined The 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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