Larry Wilmore Quotes
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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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 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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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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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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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.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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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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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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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?