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Larry Wilmore Biography

Elister L. "Larry" Wilmore (born October 30, 1961) is an American comedian, writer, producer, and actor. Wilmore served as the "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2014, and hosted The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore from 2015 to 2016. He is also the creator of the sitcom The Bernie Mac Show. He serves as an executive producer for the ABC television series Black-ish. He is also the co-creator, alongside Issa Rae, of the HBO television series Insecure. Since May 2017, he has hosted a podcast, entitled "Black on the Air" in which he discusses current events and interviews a variety of guests.

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I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

Believe, Centrist, Fall, Falls, Giving, Passionate

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Catholic, Closely, Guilt, Holiday, Holidays

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

Explained, God, Known, People, Place

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

Interest, Interested, Kids, Magic

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

Basically, Magic, People, Science, Stake, Stakes

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

Cause, Causes, Correct, Saying, Secession, Slavery

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

Angel, Felt, Guardian, Like, Way

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

Magic, Science, Speak

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

Advisor, Personal Transformation, Spiritual, Strictly, World

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

Discovery, Disproved, People, Things, Wrong, Years

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

Writing, Thinking, Prodigies, Said, Think, Write

I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.

Awakening, Aware, Believe, People, Two

We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy. " We just laugh it off.

Agree, Crazy, Differences, Guys, Laughing, Take

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. . . . I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

Hollywood, Learn, Thing, Worry, Write, Writing

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

Common, Fire, Guilt, Southern, Thing

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

Grand, Jury, Nominations, Oscar, Oscars, White

I love writing family stories.

Family, Love, Stories, Writing

When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.

Watches, Television, Rooms, Take, Movies

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

America, Bad, Kid, Kids, Kind, Police

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

Dark, Energy, Goes On, Matter, Understand

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