The comedian opens up about calling his mother to tell her she could finally retire—and then walking it back a few months later—as well as doing comedy at CNN and his new stand-up special “Lonely Flowers.

If you’ve been plugged into the stand-up comedy scene at all in the last decade or so, you’re likely well acquainted with the name Roy Wood Jr. The hilarious comedian, best known for his work as a long-time correspondent and occasional guest host on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,

The funny but bleak “Lonely Flowers,” isn’t directly about the new president, but it builds small observations into larger points about our lives.

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 host is 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.

Lonely Flowers,' the latest special from the former 'Daily Show' correspondent and current host of CNN's 'Have I Got News for You,' is now streaming

A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," he says. In his new Hulu special, Lonely Flowers, Wood riffs on how isolation has sent society spiraling.

The hour-long stand-up, which is the third original special in Hulu's new stand-up comedy brand, Hularious, was directed by C. Craig Patterson.

In an hour about the challenge and importance of connecting with other people, Wood mostly dodges around his own place in that theme, his own difficulty feeling close to someone. When the closer finally arrives,

Roy Wood Jr looks at loneliness in our hyper-connected world. And makes it funny. Here's how to watch 'Roy Wood Jr: Lonely Flowers' online from anywhere in the world.