Episode 31: Larry Wilmore on Presidential Comedians, and James O’Keefe’s Blunder

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

David Remnick speaks to the comedian Larry Wilmore about performing at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he now-infamously referred to the President using the N-word. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer explains how James O’Keefe, the undercover conservative activist, foiled his own mission. And a retired soldier leaves Iraq for truly unfamiliar territory: a small Northeastern liberal-arts college.

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0:00.0	How are you excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation.
0:12.8	It's making sure pretty huge.
0:14.9	How does this work as a national story?
0:19.4	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:30.7	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnant.
0:33.5	And recently, the topic of race has entered into campaign news for a closer look.
0:39.3	Please welcome our black correspondent.
0:41.3	Larry Wilmore.
0:43.3	Larry, thank you so much for joining.
0:45.3	Thank you so much.
0:48.3	Uh...
0:51.3	Larry?
0:53.3	Okay. Please welcome our senior black correspondent
1:00.0	Larry Wilmore
1:02.0	glad to be here
1:06.0	thank you Larry
1:07.0	the senior black correspondent on the daily show was a role
1:10.0	Larry Wilmore was almost born to play.
1:13.0	He's got a keen eye finding comedy in White America's difficulty when it talks about race
1:17.9	and somehow always seems to make an ass of itself.
1:22.1	Last year he became host of his own show, The Nightly Show, with Larry Wilmore.
1:27.4	So he was a natural choice this year
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