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The Nightly Show was a late-night political talk show hosted by Larry Wilmore that premiered in January 2015 on Comedy Central. It was a spinoff of The Daily Show, taking The Colbert Report's former spot.The first half of the show had Larry offering humorous insights upon current events, sometimes discussing it with a contributor. The second half featured a panel discussion with guests and other celebrities about a major news story. The end segment was a questionnaire called "Keep it 100", where Larry asked his guests incisive questions, and Larry himself answered questions from Twitter users.The series was canceled in August 2016 due to dropping/poor ratings. The final episode aired on August 18, 2016.
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"It" Is Dehumanizing
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Larry described the sexual harassment suit between Gretchen Carlson and Roger Ailes as:
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: In "Keep it 100", Larry and guests are expected to answer with "100%" honesty. If Larry is satisfied with their honesty, he gives them an "I kept it 100" sticker. If he thinks they were lying, they get "weak tea" (a dry teabag) and booed by the audience.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: In a segment, even Satan, Idi Amin, and Adolf Hitler do not want to be associated with George Zimmerman.
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Black and Nerdy
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Black and Nerdy: Larry self-identifies as a "blerd", but only other nerds get to call him that.
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Conspiracy Theorist
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Conspiracy Theorist: Mike Yard's The Y Files segment
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Crowd Chant
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Crowd Chant: At the start of the show, the audience chants Larry's name much like how they'd chant Stephen Colbert's name on The Colbert Report.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: When the deposition in regards to Bill Cosby's rape allegations were released, Wilmore responded by tearing him to pieces. In fact, the show has not covered any other issue for anywhere near as long as the Bill Cosby case.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Mike Yard in the "Pardon the Integration" segments, where he and Rory argue an issue and then switch sides. Invariably, when Mike switches to the "bad" side—no matter how much Larry assures him the debate is meaningless and will be treated as such—Larry and Rory accuse him of really believing that, e.g., a woman shouldn't be president. Even when he tries to argue the point in a positive way, they gang up on him.
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Big "WHAT?!"
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Big "WHAT?!": If something or someone confuses Larry, he'll say "Whuuuuuuuuut?" with an accompanying "Whuuuuuuuuut?" caption and backing vocal.
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: invoked Discussed by Larry on his episode about women and minorities in comics. He asserts that the backlash that sometimes follows reveals of Legacy Characters having new iterations of different races and sexes has less to do with racism and sexism, and more to do with nerds tending to be upset when something changes.
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: If a guest takes too long to answer a "Keep it 100" question, Larry and the audience assume they're being dishonest, and they get "weak tea" and boos.
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False Reassurance
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False Reassurance: Discussed. Larry refers to this as "Keeping it 70" as opposed to 100.
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Big Red Button
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Big Red Button: Apparently Larry has one for "science emergencies" that summons Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Air Guitar
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Air Guitar: Larry does it during the title sequence, in a bathroom for some reason.
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N-Word Privileges
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N-Word Privileges: Subverted. Just because Larry gives you permission does not mean you should actually use it. Discussed during the June 22, 2015 episode. After the mass shooting at the black AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist, President Obama used the word in an interview about race relations, making the point that just because the word isn't used in polite society, and unacceptable if it is used, does not mean that the country's gotten over racism. Larry and guests agreed, also adding that what defines its acceptability is the context in which it's used. invoked Also parodied during the same episode. After black CNN newsanchor Don Lemon held a sign that said the word during a segment about the AME shooting, Larry found his behavior unhelpful in challenging racism, humorously wondering how awkward it must have been for the (presumably) white CNN intern who ordered such a sign from a copy shop.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Larry gives Bill Cosby a merciless one when he comes to the conclusion that Cosby found his drugging and raping of women to be funny.
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News Parody
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News Parody: While The Daily Show is a parody of network news, and The Colbert Report is a parody of personality-driven editorial programs, The Nightly Show is a parody of political pundit panel discussion shows. Like the aforementioned, it reads real news in a humorous way, but then kicks off to a panel discussion which involves a mix of pundits and comedians to give the debate an improv humor feel.
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Compensating for Something
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Compensating for Something: When Donald Trump shows up at an Iowa caucus in a shiny new helicopter:
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Mike Yard's response to a children's book about George Washington's slaves baking him a cake (which conveniently doesn't say they're slaves until in a footnote on the very last page) is his own venture into "whimsical" portrayals of happy slaves entitled Massa Dies.
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Media Scaremongering
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Media Scaremongering: The 2016 election coverage uses dramatic music and negative-color graphics of the White House for THE UNBLACKENING: Blacklash 2016... and then fades out to Larry doing a little dance to the scare chords. Made better since the 2016 party conventions by showing Kaiju-like versions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton staging a Godzilla-esque battle.
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: On a show that's covered terrible civil rights violations and race based shootings, no story has been given more time than the Bill Cosby rape accusations.
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Mic Drop
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Mic Drop: On the 1/28/16 show, Neil deGrasse Tyson does this after destroying rapper B.O.B.'s "proofs" that the Earth is flat and calling out him and other anti-intellectuals for deliberately trying to tear down science and spread ignorance.
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Totally Radical
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Totally Radical: The snowboarding, skateboarding, surfer-dude "radical Muslim" who's like, totally bummed about his good name being tarnished.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Larry.
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invoked Also parodied during the same episode. After black CNN newsanchor Don Lemon held a sign that said the word during a segment about the AME shooting, Larry found his behavior unhelpful in challenging racism, humorously wondering how awkward it must have been for the (presumably) white CNN intern who ordered such a sign from a copy shop.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Began every show with "Tonightly!" until the cold open was eliminated in February 2016. He still uses it in promos. Also "That's right, motherfucker, I haven't forgotten about you!" whenever he brings up Bill Cosby.
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Blood from the Mouth
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Blood from the Mouth: Roy Albanese plays the proprietor of a water park as part of the coverage on Flint, Michigan's man-made water disaster. First he gets a nosebleed, then it comes out of his ears, and finally he's spitting up blood and teeth on camera.
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Jive Turkey
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Jive Turkey: Seventies Larry, a/k/a "Soul Daddy," shown in clips from Larry's old seventies public access talk show.
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Sadistic Choice
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Sadistic Choice: The "Keep it 100" segments often involve having the guests choose between two hypothetical options, each of which has a major upside and a corresponding downside.
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Yank the Dog's Chain
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The recurring segment, Pardon the Integration - a parody of Crossfire-type segments where two people with polar opposite opinions yell back and forth at each other - usually uses Mike Yard as a Butt-Monkey when he needs to switch to the view that the show opposes by having Larry and Rory Albanese (who plays opposite him on the segment) completely misinterpret his arguments into Strawman Political territory. One time, however, Mike actually managed to get in an argument that stumped Rory in favor of voter ID laws. He then mocked people who say mean things about President Obama, which Rory and Larry then took as him saying mean things about the President, thus leading to Rory winning the debate again.
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Insane Troll Logic
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Insane Troll Logic: Larry's "Conservative Calculator" he breaks out when trying to solve the problem of how gay marriage would lead to 900,000 abortions... somehow.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: On the December 8, 2015 episode, Mike Yard, Ricky Valez, and the Trump Troll refused to do their skits involving Donald Trump wanting to ban all Muslims from the US.
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Audience Participation
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Audience Participation: Larry encourages audience members to cheer or boo the guests if they do or do not think that they were "keeping it 100." He usually ends most shows by answering one question submitted by viewers via Twitter. During March Madness, Larry asked viewers to submit suggestions of outlandish activities he should do depending on how the tournament goes.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: When Larry discussed the number of toddlers killed by guns weekly on October 20, 2015 episode, he had to use the Nightly Show's Soundproof Despair Booth to let out his depressing emotions about how often it happens while Mike Yard is there to keep the audience company. He remarked that the last time Larry had to use the booth was when the Dodgers lost to the Mets in the 2015 MLB Playoffs.
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Whenever Larry gets booed by the audience during his Keep It 100 question.
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Explosive Decompression
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Explosive Decompression: When Larry is blerding out about space:
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Chronic Villainy
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Chronic Villainy: Even when it's his own legal team, Bill Cosby just can't stop drugging people.
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The show's "black egghead," Felonious Monk, speaks in an overlong stream of academia, and is subsequently puzzled when Larry has to pause and then translate it into simpler terms.
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