Larry Wilmore

“It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.”

“I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.”

“A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.”

“I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.”

“The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.”

“I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.”

“I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.”

“As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.”

“It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.”

“'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'”

“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.”

“I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.”

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

“My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.”

“I just believe what I believe.”

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

“I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.”

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

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

“I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'”