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" My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures. "

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Larry Wilmore

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" I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. "

" You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game. "

" You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on. "

" 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 really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that. "

" There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing. "

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content. "

" 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 was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic. "

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" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion. "

" I've always watched the political shows. "

" I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time. "

" I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well. "

" I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things. "

" I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

" I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it. "

" 'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news. "

" I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person. "

" I'm not really a self-promoter-type person. "

Larry Wilmore

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" People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. "

" I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative? "

" Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics. "

" 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 white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too? "

" 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. "

" The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know? "

Larry Wilmore

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" In my career, I'm always trying to do something different. "