Larry Wilmore Quotes
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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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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 think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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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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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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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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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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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 guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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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'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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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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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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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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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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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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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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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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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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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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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.