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# Laughing on the Inside
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/episode/laughing-inside-gble34/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:11:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-29T07:30:55.000Z
- Description: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the family history of Roy Wood, Jr. and Lewis Black.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Finding Your Roots, Season 7, Episode 10, #ZZZ_Episode_94c92219-6317-4905-bbb8-c08729f98f8f, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_855aaf88-37bb-4949-872a-c4646a613145, #v1.16

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with accounts of hardship in their family trees which may have led them to each find humor in adversity.