Zitat des Tages von Larry Wilmore:
In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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.
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.
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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.
You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them.
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.
I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
I really love storytelling.
I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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.
I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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.
Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, 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.
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.
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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.
If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
I'm understated in my approach.
