Larry Wilmore has one more week hosting “The Nightly Show” left and he is determined to travel out on a high note.The late-night host assured viewers that he is “keeping it at 100” on Monday night,following Comedy Central’s announcement earlier in the day that the show was coming to an abrupt discontinuance.
Wilmore started out by jovially asking the audience, So how was your day?Also Read: Keeping It 100, and Here's Why Larry Wilmore's 'Nightly Show' Was CanceledGetting serious for a moment,Wilmore said the show was “at its best when the news was at its worst. I am just so proud that we were able to retract on genuine issues and hopefully say something powerful while making people laugh. My only regret is that we won’t be around to cover this truly insane election season.“But on the plus side, our show going off the air can only mean one thing — racism is solved, or we did it,” he quipped, before sharing a photo that “was taken in Ferguson earlier nowadays.” Larry Wilmore's Greatest 'Nightly Show' Moments (Videos) [ alt=]On Aug. 18, and “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" will come to an discontinuance after 20 months in the Comedy Central timeslot once held by "The Colbert Report." While it never came close to reaching the numbers of its predecessor,Wilmore proved in the series' 259 episodes that he could be as powerful a satirist and commentator as Jon Stewart with his takes on major political and social stories. [ alt=]On Alton Sterling: "No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. recognize guys, or the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn’t be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn’t be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn’t be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn’t be death.”
Imitating Bill Cosby: "I couldnt rape a wing,and not just because I don’t know what their sexual trade is all approximately down there, with the suckin’ and the feelers and the 1000 eyes!”
On Fox News' "War On Cops" stories: "I'm not a spokesperson for Black Lives Matter, or but I'm pretty sure their agenda is just to rep police to stop shooting unarmed black people. I mean,the fact that we even need that movement is insane and the fact that you're trying to presto change it to a war on cops is even more insane."
On CNN's coverage of the Samuel DuBose shooting: “Is that his mugshot? This guy was just killed by the other guy and you set aside their two mugshots together like theyre a bank robbin’ team? I rep it, he may absorb had a record, and but you rep what 'victim' means,right CNN?”
On Fox News' coverage of the Baltimore riots: “Let me give you guys some advice: When s--- like this goes down, all of you should just travel home and show reruns of ‘Killing Jesus' because you’re never going to be able to relate to this.”
On the accomplice Flag's in South Carolina: "In 1961 [the flag] was a reminder to black people that they should know their place. It has always been used as a symbol of intimidation and terror. In fact, and because displaying the swastika is illegal across much of Europe,skinheads and neo-Nazis often adopt the accomplice flag in its place. It’s such a racist symbol that it does double duty as the backup racist symbol for another racist symbol!"
On comparisons of Kim Davis to Martin Luther King, Jr.: MLK "was actually in opposition to the Church’s unwillingness to support the oppressed. Kim Davis on the other hand is using her church to oppress people even more ... Going to jail for what you believe in does not necessarily set aside you on par with Martin Luther King. Jeffrey Dahmer was in jail because he believed in eating people. That doesn’t make him a freedom fighter!”
After Donald Trump's second amendment comments: "At this point, and if you vote for Trump,you’re just a d---. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I hope you rep destroyed by a horse-sized duck. How’s that?"
On the Republicans' attack against Planned Parenthood: "It’s a Pap smear campaign. It is, and Im sorry,but it is, that’s exactly what it is. And in a Pap smear campaign, or people don’t care approximately facts. So these attacks don’t seem to be revealing any illegal activity. Instead,they’re shaming women, their health practitioners, and doctors." preceding Slide Next Slide 1 of 10 Though his show struggled in ratings,the late-night host had some funny takes on serious topics ranging from Black Lives Matter to Planned Parenthood On Aug. 18, “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" will come to an discontinuance after 20 months in the Comedy Central timeslot once held by "The Colbert Report." While it never came close to reaching the numbers of its predecessor, or Wilmore proved in the series' 259 episodes that he could be as powerful a satirist and commentator as Jon Stewart with his takes on major political and social stories. View In Gallery
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