Larry Wilmore' Nightly Show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/05/01/larry-wilmores-harshest-burns-in-his-white-house-correspondents-dinner-speech/

Some of these are in the Jezebel article link from above, but I think it has even more

the article has the link to the full routine, which I feel like I'm going to watch again later

the jezebel one, I mean

A lot of the jokes were good, but the shitty response from the crowd threw him off. When a comedian has to struggle uphill, it fucks up the performance and dilutes the impact of the material a lot of the time, and Wilmore got hurt by the audience's hostility.

those are pretty good except different jokes are premised on Trump and Clinton being prez; make up yr mind, Larry.

"No, but it is good to be on C-SPAN. I am glad I am not on your rival network ‘No Input HDMI-1.'"

love this one

I could use more Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon insults, but they're just waaaay too easy

never felt better informed about politics and news than when I watch Wolf Blitzer and realize I understand those subjects better than him and it's his job

but then you just want to steal all his money

@ggreenwald
Like Colbert in 2006, Wilmore didn't tell "jokes" but said mean truths to rich TV stars' faces, as they got angry. That's why it was funny.

still, Anarchists for Clinton seem to think Obama was funnier.

obama is totally funny. these are the only times i ever watch him speak.

the video w/him and Boehner sucked tho

Cancelled! >:(

Bummer. Still I'm sure Wilmore will go on to to do more good stuff

Feel bad for him and everyone involved but I agree the show wasn't working imo

really hope a bunch of his contributors - Mike Yard, Franchesca Ramsey, Robin Thede, etc. - land on their feet

i felt like it was improving! consistently better than daily show and the panel discussions in the final segment were consistently watchable. Bummer.

yeah I thought it was getting better too. and it was great to have a comedy/news show that was clearly run by minorities + women and reflected their POVs

consistently better than daily show

low bar. surely new daily show dude is getting the boot, too?

That would not disappoint me. However it'd be nice if they could salvage the show/brand with new writers and host.

it's just crazy that a guy who sucks that bad is hosting the daily show NOW of all times

^^^

Yeah. I don't blame Stewart for wanting out of a stressful job, that's totally understandable, but it would have been so perfect for him to stay through this campaign and go out on top. I guess the idea was that it would be a perfect time for his replacement because of the never ending gift of trump.

Samantha Bee is the only show that exists for me in this category. I watch John Oliver if I'm interested in the insights his team's research brings to light. The joke writing and delivery seems forcefully shoehorned in to meet "comedy" quotas. Anyway, this is just a reworded version of the same post in every late night political show thread at this point.

For ongoing reference:
full frontal is great
last week tonight has good politics, no funny
daily show is last week's newspaper covered in birdshit

Right, thank you

I watch John Oliver if I'm interested in the insights his team's research brings to light. The joke writing and delivery seems forcefully shoehorned in to meet "comedy" quotas. Anyway, this is just a reworded version of the same post in every late night political show thread at this point.

It's like eating pasta, except with someone flicking you in the ear every 30 seconds. No, Jonathan, I do not want you to flick me in the ear, I would just like to enjoy this pasta without getting spaghetti sauce all over my shirt! Jonathan, stop it please!

lolllll

does anyone else think the unfair criticism of his Correspondents' Dinner speech had something to do with the cancellation? Don't know why he was criticized beyond the Fox News vortex.

How long until @Midnight is at 10pm?

bummer Larry was awesome and his team was kind of ramshackle and off the cuff but it felt real and went some interesting places.

i saw Daily Show the other day and it was totally lame, they had 2 anchors commenting on the show as if it was the olympics. it felt like a bad SNL skit.

not that Larry's show didn't feel like that at times. i just prefer him as a personality over most of the other comedy hosts rn. dude rules and it sucks to see this show go.

I wish Mike Yard could've been there, but that was a really nice ending to the show.

the shitely show

watching this finale, i liked this cast way more than the new Daily Show cast. Franchesca Ramsey, Holly Walker, Robin Thede, and Jordan Carlos all way better than the DS crew, which feels stuck in this mock-cynical rut.

man the Daily Show didn't really care about these guys at all, i think the cancellation got a single tossed-off mention "I guess they were kind of colleagues of ours". a far cry from the days where Stewart and Colbert would promote each other on the reg.

New Daily Show just lacks a soul. And Noah is a twerp who'd rather be doing hacky standup. The Nightly Show was weird and kind of clunky at times but seeing so many people of color on a show get to voice their opinions was fucking great.

xp could be weakness, no? i don't know if wilmore's show was clearly way better but if it could be seen as better, it would come off weird for the daily show ppl to be too pally with it - make them look worse.

Is it not strange that this was just cancelled abruptly, in the middle of the season?

It is weird. As far as I could tell, viewership didn't fall off a cliff (it dropped over the first few months, but held kinda steady throughout 2016). Maybe this is the spot they wanted to use for Jessica Williams' new show.

from what I heard contracts for all the cast were abt to come up, that's why the odd timing

everything i know i learned from facebook and nu-daily show and larry never ever get any time on my FB. as opposed to stewart and colbert which were constantly linked to for years. john oliver definitely gets all kinds of liberal outrage linkage. no social media buzz is pretty dire nowadays.

Nu-Daily is largely garbage, so that's not surprising. Much of Nightly was too nuanced for fb links, though. They mainly covered ongoing issues/behaviors. Sometimes they were really on point about a particular current event, but mostly it was a continuous discussion.

obviously "nuance" isn't what t.v. people are looking for when it comes to tweet links.

i feel bad because i loved larry on the daily show but i didn't really love him as host early on with his show and i kinda stopped watching. i didn't mind the back and forth of the guests but even that reminded me of a less exciting politically incorrect or somethng. and keeping it 100 seemed corny to me. but i adore black-ish so i get larry in spirit anyway.

They still had a panel every night, but they largely phased out the Keep It 100 gimmick and cut it down to one guest + 2 cast instead of 3 guests + 1 cast which was much easier to control. And the chemistry the cast ended up having was on par with Colbert/Carell era TDS.

Much of Nightly was too nuanced for fb links, though.

True and fucking sad that that's the kiss of death.

And scott otm, Larry's character on tDS was more engaging, he could seem a little milquetoast as a host sometimes.

Larry Wilmore's co-created show with Issa Rae "Insecure" is great.

Everyone's probably seen it but it's worth circulating:

http://www.avclub.com/article/god-bless-larry-wilmore-not-buying-real-times-budd-250596

hope this pans out, she was great on Larry's show https://twitter.com/chescaleigh/status/854352538652610560

She's great, absolutely, but now I'm wondering whatever happened to that CC development deal that Jessica Williams left The Daily Show for.