Larry Wilmore Quotes
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.