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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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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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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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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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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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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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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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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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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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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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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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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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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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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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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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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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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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.