Larry Wilmore Takes Over ‘Late Show’ Monologue to Poke Fun at ‘Nightly Show’ Cancellation
September 01, 2016 9:15pm PT by Arlene Washington , Jennifer Konerman
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Larry Wilmore on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’
“I thought whoever leaves 11:30 at Comedy Central just gets ‘The Late Show,'” said Wilmore.
Larry Wilmore is not quite finished with late-night TV.
On Thursday, Wilmore jokingly tried to take his late-night hosting efforts to Stephen Colbert’s Late Show.
Wilmore, whose Nightly Show was canceled at Comedy Central last month, began the opening monologue of the show with some Donald Trump jokes before Colbert stepped onstage to interrupt.
“I thought whoever leaves 11:30 at Comedy Central just gets The Late Show. I thought that’s how it works,” said Wilmore to Colbert.
After Colbert disagreed, Wilmore asked, “It’s because I’m black, isn’t it?”
Colbert’s reply: “A little bit. Yeah.”
Later on the show, Colbert introduced Wilmore as his “brother from another network.”
Wilmore spoke out on the cancellation when it was announced in August, saying he was “saddened and surprised we won’t be covering this crazy election or ‘The Unblackening’ as we’ve coined it. And keeping it 100, I guess I hadn’t counted on ‘The Unblackening’ happening to my time slot as well.”
Watch the Wilmore-Colbert monologue clip below.
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Jennifer Konerman
