Did Race Play a Role in Larry Wilmore's Downfall?

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>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.

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> Elsa Waithe, a four-year veteran African-American stand-up comic

So a fucking nobody that also happens to look like a gremlin, or some version of death

The only race is the race for ratings and Wilmore lost

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You've only been here a week

I've exploited the Wilmore tragedy for (You)'s before, the Sup Forums audience is laughably predictable.

You've been posting this exact same fucking image and copy pasta everyday for a week now. This level of dedication to baiting on an anonymous cricket forum is straight up pathetic my guy, kys already before your moms husband comes home and beats you

Sounds like peanut butter and jealousy.

7 years

How could you tell?

Yeah race played a role. His writers tried to make it only about blacks and then nobody watched it. Not even the blacks care about black issues.

DAMN

>Core demographic of the channel and the show he replaced is white
>Spend every single episode talking about how white people are evil
>"Why aren't people watching it anymore?"

Jesus christ how blind are these people.

All they are saying is that the demographic of the show that was popular before doesn't like black people.

lolno. It's down to shitty ratings. If lots of black people watched then it would have got better ratings. Empire gets shitloads of largely black viewers and is a huge hit.

The previous show already did that to some extent, but all this does is prove that lefties are inherently more racist than those that they claim are the bigger racists.

>The few opportunities for black comedy writers just got reduced further.

Guess they should've been funnier then.

Definitely not. It's more that he kept referencing racism in every sentence he spoke.

I miss Mugi-posting.

I remember when black comedians did comedy that wasn't all about race.

>few opportunities for black comedy writers.

Tyler Perry has like 8 shows, and comes out with a new movie every fucking month. I'm sure they will be fine.

>first host on both shows is white
>ratings are great among progressives
>host on both shows change to blacks
>ratings tank among progressives
lol?

>I was neither funny or insightful.
>Nor do I possess any self awareness.
>I ruined job opportunities for other black people.
That's what I'm taking away from this

They do, it's just that black issues isn't the drivel Larry tried to sell. Black issues are shit like child support, crack, fat asses and friend chicken. Chippelle knew this.

>Its down to shitty ratings.
This. I'm black and I only watched two episodes before I gave it up. I never hear anyone talk about this show, black or otherwise. I bet most of the people that was watching Willmore were leftover white viewers from the Colbert Report

Chappelle was great because he acknowledged the problems with black culture and used his comedy to point them out. Black people liked it because they could relate and whites liked it because it was different and sometimes insightful.

Wilmore exclusively focused on non-issues and blaming other groups for the problems blacks face.

newfag i've been here 9 years

Someone post the Bill Nye clip that got the show on the road to full on JUST mode.

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>The few opportunities for bad comedy writers just got reduced further

Everyday white Americans just love "conversations about race" where they're told that everyone like them is evil and racist, that being priveleged in any way makes them deserve nothing they have, and to just shut up and do whatever black SJW's say.

Especially after they've come home from a long day of work, finished cleaning up after dinner, and just want to watch some light hearted political satire to unwind before they go to bed. Yup, people sure fucking want to keep tuning into THAT.

I don't.

That's because you're 16

>its a "black person starts bitching about racism" episode

Jog my memory...

The Jeffersons.

>black comedians
Lol racism, white people amirite?

>female comedians
DUDE SEX JOKES LMAO

>latino comedians
DRUGS LOL

>white male comedians
???

That show was on from 1975-1985.

Very good. You get a star.

Obama said we need to have a conversation about race. What better place to have it than Sup Forums?

Whats it called when you act like a shill but you have nothing to sell?

Chappelle really was great though. By far one of my favorites to date. Still hoping for a huge comeback.

The problem nowadays is that the first part of every "conversation about race" is being forced to admit that only white people are racist and they need to apologize for every bad thing every white person has done.

It's kind of hard to carry on from there.

Shitposting?

Wilmore doesn't ask himself "maybe Colbert had something I didn't" no it must be racism.

>shitcanned for being an unfunny nigger
>DID RACE PLAY A ROLE? WE MAY NEVER KNOW.

Wilmore did ask himself what Colbert had that he didn't and the answer was white skin

>only white people are racist and they need to apologize for every bad thing every white person has done.
Even I think this part is retarded. Every time a white person I get close to apologizes to me for racism I just laugh at them.

>Chappelle was great because he acknowledged the problems with black culture and used his comedy to point them out. Black people liked it because they could relate

Strange thing is that The PJs actually acknowledged a lot of this.

I'm guessing Wilmore just tried to be too much like his new white friends.

Of course it did.

His entire act was "LMAO WHITE PEOPLE" and his only retort to literally everything was "LMAO RACISM".

It's almost like deliberately shitting on the 63% of the country isn't going to be good for your ratings or something, imagine that.

Where's that Principal Skinner picture?

>Maybe I'm out of touch?
>No. It's because everyone is racist.

>I think that's just coded language to say its wasn't playing well with white audiences

Well, if enough non-white people watched the show to make it financially viable in the absence of a large white audience maybe it wouldn't have been cancelled.

The PJs is pretty underrated and like you said it did a great job talking about problems in the black community and what they needed to do to fix them.

Colbert was funny.
Until his talk show anyway.

> The original title of the show was going to be The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, which was suggested by Jon Stewart.

Kek.

Yep. Cancelled because of the KKK. Not because oral surgeons could use the footage to put people under for surgery.

>tailor show for a fraction of a demographic that is only 13% of the population
>surprised when it doesn't have good ratings

What is, 'a audience unaware that the show was parody' for 500, Alex.

I was aware, I just pretended he was being real.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Thing is, constantly referring to systemic racism and focusing anger/hate towards people based on their skin color in an echo chamber isn't really helpful and just ends up alienating people rather than helping anyone. It's not like there hasn't been plenty of poor white people and their ancestors who have been fucked over by the system and will rightfully feel resentful about the idea about their supposed super-privileged lifestyle.

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They need to create shows starring black folks that don't mention race. 30 Rock had it right with Black Frasier, I'd watch the shit out of that

What the fuck? Most of his writers and panel guests were white.

Comedy Central cancels shows all the fucking time

Whats's the big fucking deal?

Will those bitches from Another Period cry sexism when their shit gets cancelled?

>its just about race guys, thus was a quality program but whitey just couldnt stand blacks having their own show

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These threads are always posted in the same way.
Are you getting paid for this shit?
Do you do it for free?
Who is profiting from Sup Forums being outraged about this?

daily reminder

nobody in that panel is worth a single shit, I fucking hate Nye's "science popularizer" bullshit, it's fucking demeaning, what the fuck is this bullshit about shit being "cool" enough of a justifier to finance space travel?

Am I not white privilegey enough for the white privilege club?

>doesn't realize he was replying to the trips
You sure about that?

I doubt many black people watched The Daily Show. Most things white leftists care about and like dont appeal to most blacks.

>four years
>veteran

Only in america

There are plenty of asians and wetbacks, why didnt they watch it? they could have saved it.

>tell mundane story
>WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?!

>White comedians
DUDE I CANT GET LAID LMAO

>white male comedians
>rape culture is real, amy schumer is my boss

In so much as it played a part that he was hired in the first place. In that regard, race was the only factor.

LOL

this nigger gets it.

>It's not black peoples fault for not watching it
it's whiteys
>It's whiteys responsibility to save underperforming black tv shows because they can't do it themselves

flawless logic

Is 'corny faggot' a race?

Well if black audiences loved it so much, maybe he should do a show on BET.

what makes this even crazier is that they're just replacing Larry with Jessica Williams the host the freaks who still watch TDS wanted to succeed Jon Stewart.

That looks like a kkk caricature of a black person.

Kek

also he's completely unlikable, barely black and a smug asshole

>didn't do well with white audiences
well if that's true, no wonder it was canned, we are what, 60% of the population, you can't fail at that and than say "well we are doing ok with 12% of the population!"

Black people have had wildly successful shows for years. Black sitcoms, dramas, comedies, and even cartoons. Look at Comedy Central, and I can already think of Chapelle's Show and Key&Peele just off the top of my head.

Some of the best shows ever have been black. Wilmore shouldn't hide behind race, and just face the truth: he has no fucking talent. He's not funny, he's boring, and only got his own show because of who he was friends with... i.e. Privelege.

Everyone will remember Fresh Prince, Boondocks, and Chapelles show forever. Meanwhile, Wilmore will blame everybody but himself.

Is it male or female?

I sincerely dont remember this time

It was about black "people", not minoritys in general

Asians and even mexicans know that black people are just beyond help

>Fuck whitey. Here's another sociologist talking about privilege
>Why the fuck you ain't watching our show fo'? Racist
That'd be like if Jeff Dunham whined when his show got canned that people were prejudiced against puppets. Just let it go

>>"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 a sad reality that the most marketable demo when selling advertising is the white male 20-35 demo.

You can't sustain a show on basic cable with just a black audience. Chapelle was able to cross over because he appealed to white people too, half his writers were white.
Wilmore was always the grumpy black man when he was on The Daily Show, I can't imagine he's changed his schtick all that much.

once again liberals struggle to come to terms with a meritocracy

I guess you are veteran in the comedic circles if you haven't given up by that point?

>(((white)))
What's the deal with airplane food?

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He's not funny and his views on race are juvenile at best and offensive at worst. He's a perfect example of why race relations are at the levels they were in the 1950's.