The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
| 19 January 2015 (USA)
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    bbeeno44

    Larry Wilmore sets JUST the right tone for his show. Next to Bill Mahr, it is easily the SINGLE BEST show on Television. I can't believe they canceled it!!! Everyone involved with the show was top notch!! Everyone who appeared on the show had a relevant point to make. All of the correspondents were intelligent and extremely funny,... while at the same time making important points. I loved all of them,.. brilliant comedians in their own rights. Wilmore drew all of these fabulous talents to the show and then had the good sense to SHOWCASE them. Let them talk. You can't find that anywhere on TV. It was the ONLY show I looked forward to seeing each night! It was truly MUST SEE TV. Now there is nothing worth tuning in for on that network. Daily show is just OK. Nightly show was the best!! I loved Colbert when he was there. But Larry was WAAAAY better than Colbert!! We will miss you Larry and everyone else on the show!!! Thought you were brilliant from day ONE!!!Wish you could find a better home for the show. I'm there with you if you land somewhere else!! Let Comedy channel just show terrible South Park and AWFUL Tosh reruns!!

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    Conor Brown

    When Colbert left the Report, Comedy Central was left with a series of big decisions to make. The Report had taken a certain kind of political satire pioneered by The Daily Show and given it a clever twist, in doing so gaining a good following and appealing to a fairly broad demographic for CC. It would have been a mistake for the network and show creators to try for something too similar to either the Daily Show or Colbert. Neither does The Nightly Show veer too far from the style of humor on those shows, but its new format with multiple guest panel members and greater focus on social issues outside of electoral politics is refreshing and entertaining. I'm not a liberal and have found certain positions taken on all three aforementioned shows obnoxious at times, but I don't need to watch my views being echoed on a political satire show to enjoy it. Unsurprisingly, the fact that the Nightly Show has frequently featured multiracial panels and delves into racism on an arguably deeper level than Colbert or Stewart generally did upsets, bores, or just doesn't sit comfortably with Comedy Central's core audience of young white bros. Hopefully given some time for the show to develop a more comfortable dynamic between audience, writes, guests, contributors, and Wilmore and find its audience, ratings and viewership will improve and the Nightly Show will have a long streak on CC.

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    techani

    Pros: + Brings interesting topics. + Dares to talk about uncomfortable (hence unfunny but meaningful) topics.Cons: - Issue with timing: interrupts serious talks with jokes. - No quality talk with guests: Most disappointment I remember is his silly segment with Bernie Sanders who wanted to talk serious but was spammed with small jokes. - Usually keeps silent for long until people stop laughing.About "Keep it 100" segment (panel discussion): It was the segment of awkwardness, but he started to be better.Conclusion: He has great potential, as long as he improves timing.

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    erwidiwre

    Larry Wilmore is a hypocrite. He's a smug, rich, prejudiced man who pretends he cares about the struggles of middle class America. He barely even looks like a black man and I guarantee he lives in a fancy house in white suburbia and crosses the street on the rare occasion that he's in the same vicinity as an actual black man. He's a massive hypocrite. Just watch how excited he gets whenever there's an opportunity to mock a white person or republican. Or how he threw around the word "tranny" immediately after being told it's offensive, only to refer to "the n-word" in the same sentence. You want people to respect your feelings, Larry? How about you respect them, you f*cking hypocritical phony? I can't wait until this show is canceled, purely out of my disgust for this man.

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