Roy Wood Jr.’s new stand-up special Lonely Flowers starts—and ends—with the phrase “We ain’t gonna make it.”
What the longtime Daily Show correspondent-turned-CNN hostis getting at is the way in which our lack of human connection as a society could spell the end of American civilization as we know it. “I just don’t see how we become as connected as we once were ever again,” he tells the Daily Beast in a new interview.
And in this exclusive clip from the new special, Wood points the finger directly at the type of dehumanizing technology that was supposed to make things easier but has only driven us further apart.