American - Comedian | October 30, 1961 -
Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
Larry Wilmore
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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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.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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