80. Larry Wilmore: Putting It Out There

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore’s credits are endless. In Living Color, The Bernie Mac Show, The Office, The Daily Show, Insecure, and more. Now the legendary writer and performer sits down with Mike to share some of the wisdom he gained from working on all of those classic shows. Larry explains why writers never argue about endings, why his family calls him The Oracle, and why conflict was the driving narrative force behind The Office.

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0:00.0	But what's funny about writers rooms is that the things that are said are off the wall.
0:07.1	Oh, it's terrible.
0:08.1	Because you're finding the line of comedy.
0:10.1	Absolutely.
0:11.1	And comedy's all about finding the line.
0:12.1	Thousand percent sure.
0:13.1	And then to find the line, you get to go way over the line and then come back and sneak
0:16.3	it back.
0:17.3	The things we said in the writers who have been living color, I mean, all of us would have
0:21.2	been arrested multiple times over the course of many years.
0:27.6	They could excavate it now and we'd be arrested right now, in fact.
0:31.8	Hey, everybody.
0:34.2	That is the voice of the great Larry Wilmore Holy Cow.
0:39.7	First of all, it's episode 80 of this podcast experiment.
0:44.1	Thanks for coming along for this journey.
0:46.4	We had no idea.
0:48.0	We've been making an 80 of these things.
0:50.4	And it's so fun meeting you all, some of you at the shows and hearing the feedback about
0:56.7	the relationship between the material worked out on the show and then when it ends up being
1:00.4	in the final show, it's a cool sort of meta experiment.
1:05.6	I'm out on tour.
1:07.7	If you want to see me, I just finished up in Los Angeles.
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