>Still, according to Elsa Waithe, a four-year veteran African-American stand-up comic, "The Nightly Show" was appointment television for her and plenty of her black peers, if for no other reason because it was one of the few comedy shows of its kind on air currently featuring a predominately black perspective.
>"To be frank, I think when they say Larry Wilmore's show wasn't 'playing well with audiences' I think that's just coded language to say its wasn't playing well with white audiences," she told NBC News. "Maybe for white audiences that was too many black people at once."
>"It's unfortunate that it was cancelled," added stand-up comic and former "Last Comic Standing" semifinalist Cyrus McQueen in a statement to NBC. "The few opportunities for black comedy writers just got reduced further."
>"You started a conversation that was not on television when you began," Stewart told Wilmore in an emotional farewell. "And you worked with a group of people who you invited to that conversation to collaborate with you, to sharpen that conversation and what you don't realize is, you walk out of this room and that conversation doesn't end."
Huh. Really makes you think.
Jaxon Green
him being a cunt played a big role
Kevin Russell
Maybe if he were funny it'd still be on
Wyatt Jackson
race did play a role
him pandering to one race who wasnt turning in to actually watch his show and alienating the other half kind of gets shows cancelled
Nolan Price
>Did Race Play a Role in Larry Wilmore's Downfall?
Yes. That's all he ever fucking talked about and people got fed up.
Lincoln Cook
Yes
This was a show for BET, not Comedy Central. I want entertainment, not race baiting and groupthink.
Connor Ramirez
> A TV show on a major free to air channel, in probably THE most competitive timeslot doesn't play well with 87% of the population. > Hurr racism is why it got canned.
You know, i used to think niggers weren't just flat out dumb.
Brody Cooper
No. Two words: Dave Chapelle
On the air 13 fucking years before this shitheel of a comedian. On the exact same channel. Dealing with race. And wildly successful.
Fuck off with posting this month old article already.
Brody Gutierrez
Did shitposting play a role in OP's repost?
Chase Jones
Months later and you are still posting this. I am impressed.
Alexander Robinson
>4 year comic
Robert Fisher
>To be frank, I think when they say Larry Wilmore's show wasn't 'playing well with audiences' I think that's just coded language to say its wasn't playing well with white audiences
>60% of the population in the US is white
NAWWWWWW
Julian Gonzalez
Who cares about this fuckin loser.
Jackson Anderson
>60% of the population in the US is white
Really that low?
Damn. That's kind of sad (no racist).
Anthony Wright
>a four-year veteran stand-up comic,
That's nothing in stand-up.
Isaiah Morgan
It's closer to 67%, not counting Hispanics, but yea.
Jeremiah Lopez
Go get a job Larry and stop posting this
Dylan Myers
I blame his regular non-expert guests. The actual guests were usually good and interesting but his buddies that were on the show every week were awful. They used it as a platform to try and get themselves attention with stupid little phrases and rants. They weren't ever smart or creative or in any way relevant.
Bentley Evans
That clip with Bill Nye where they complained about science being too hard and therefore pointless was where they lost all support.
Hunter Ramirez
63% years ago, be even lower by now
Easton Edwards
No, he was a terrorist who bombed the white house.
Zachary Foster
Thread reported for spam :^)))
Dylan Moore
Yeah, low percentage, but if you look at the raw numbers it's still a lot of people.
Leo Gomez
He wasn't anywhere near as funny as Stewart was and he wasn't a replacement for Stewart ... he was basically trying to make his own show which is why it was cancelled.
Has nothing to do with his race, it has to do with the talent. Just because you are 'black' doesn't mean you get extra percentage points in whatever field you're in... Chris Rock is funny, Larry Wilmore isn't. That's all there is to it.
All this race talk is just Twitter monkeys riding the coat-tails of the media humping "race topics" when the bottom line is it has little to do with race and more to do with talent.
Jeremiah Mitchell
I thought it was because nobody watched the show?
Aaron Perry
Maybe you shouldn't try to make tv shows in a capitalist economy that appeal to 10% of the population at the maximum.