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Larry Wilmore
Profession : Comedian
Birth : October 30, 1961
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
Larry Wilmore
My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
I'm understated in my approach.
Larry Wilmore
I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
Larry Wilmore
The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
Larry Wilmore
Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
Larry Wilmore
I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
Larry Wilmore
Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
Larry Wilmore
I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
Larry Wilmore
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.
Larry Wilmore
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore
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