Roy Wood Jr. says the years he spent performing in comedy clubs in the South and Midwest — sometimes in places where he felt unsafe as a black man — helped him understand the psyche of the country. He grew up the son of a civil rights journalist in Birmingham, Ala., and joined ‘The Daily Show’ in 2015, after working for ESPN and as a radio personality. Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews ‘Ready Player One.’ And writer Sara Saedi was 2 when her parents fled Iran and moved to California. Her new memoir, ‘Americanized,’ describes her 18-year-long path to citizenship, and the lingering anxiety of being undocumented.