Episode 541 - Larry Wilmore

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Many people know Larry Wilmore from The Daily Show. Many more will soon know him as the heir to Stephen Colbert's late night slot. But throughout his life, Larry wanted to be known as many things: an athlete, a magician, an actor, a comic, a writer, a producer, a showrunner and more. And along the way, he had to fight Hollywood's notion of what a black entertainer should be.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.5	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucking ears, what the fucksters,
0:14.6	what the fuck abilities, what the fuck adelix, what the fuck minister folers.
0:20.8	Alright, man.
0:22.8	Women.
0:23.8	I'm Mark Marin, this is WTF.
0:26.2	Larry Wilmore is on the show today from the Daily Show and also the designated heir to
0:32.3	the Colbert show a year.
0:35.1	How long before, how does that feel to get a gig that you got to wait like a year to step
0:40.6	into?
0:41.6	I mean the excitement of knowing it's like, alright you're the guy, alright the buzz goes
0:46.2	down, alright, he just waited out.
0:49.5	I don't know if I think I would go crazy.
0:51.3	I don't know if that's the best situation.
0:53.6	It seems like the best way to do it is just hold on to the information until a few weeks
0:57.6	before or a month before just to keep the juice going.
1:02.2	And I don't know if they can overthink it.
1:05.4	Look he's a great guy, he's a smart guy, he's a funny guy, I was happy to talk to him,
1:10.4	but he's a bigger man than me, not shredding himself knowing that that's going to happen.
1:17.9	I mean Conan, I mean Conan, yeah that tonight show gig, you know, six years out.
1:23.0	That didn't pan out well.
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