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Larry Wilmore hasn’t shied away from telling his Comedy Central viewers exactly what he thinks of Bill Cosby. And on Tuesday night’s episode of The Nightly Show, Wilmore doubled down and then some. First he noted that Super Bowl 50 reminded him “that’s the number of women who have accused …
Congrats to Grace Parra for getting back into the late-night TV on the regular, as Comedy Central just announced hiring her as contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, starting with a piece to air tonight. Parra joins Ricky Velez, Holly Walker and Mike Yard as current contributors for …
The long wait for Issa Rae has been rewarded. HBO has ordered Insecure to series. Co-created and written by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the half-hour comedy had been in the works with HBO since 2013. It’ll follow Rae and Molly (Yvonne Orji) through their friendship and lives. “Dreams come true,” …
For the Vanity Fair spread of fall 2015 that examines how men continue to dominate the late-night TV landscape, nine of them made fun of each other through half-hearted impersonations. Roll the clip. Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, James Corden, Larry Wilmore, Trevor Noah, John Oliver and …
Jon Stewart’s talking head might not appear on our TVs four nights a week any longer, but his name and his influence is perhaps even farther reaching now that he’s gone, imprinted into the four most vital late-night TV shows of 2015. Note: Most vital. Not most viral. The Jimmys …
On Wednesday night’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the decision by Florida to ban the term “climate change,” which conservatives previously decided to say to avoid saying “global warming,” got Wilmore thinking. Plus, there’s a movement afoot to “ban bossy”? “We could just tell people to stop insulting women,” …
Before leaving for a regularly scheduled vacation last weekend, Jon Stewart surprised everyone watching The Daily Show that he’d be taking a more permanent vacation, retiring by the end of his 17th year at the helm of Comedy Central’s preeminent late-night news satire program. Here he was, in his own …
Comedy Central and Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions announced today the first all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs,” and they include Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jon Hamm, John Oliver, Paul Rudd and Amy Schumer. The 2015 edition of “Night of …
The second episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central took off the gloves, “Kept it 100” as Wilmore wants us to turn into a catchphrase, and left no doubt that Wilmore believes Bill Cosby is guilty of serial rape of dozens of women over the past …
Comedy Central’s newest late-night series, The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, has a head writer: Robin Thede. Wilmore announced the hiring today. He recruited Thede from The Queen Latifah Show, where she also had served as head writer. Her other recent writing credits include crafting lines for Chris Rock at the …
