Larry Wilmore

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2009

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Larry Wilmore is a comedy writer and performer. He's the author of "I'd Rather We Got Casinos," and is The Daily Show's Senior Black Correspondent. He also wrote for In Living Color and created the sitcoms The Bernie Mac Show and The PJs.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Don from Philadelphia. The Sound of Young America is an independent production
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0:08.4	visit MaximumFun.org and click on Donate. Jesse? Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles,
0:15.3	I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the Sound of Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:30.1	MaximumFun. MaximumFun. MaximumFun.
0:40.8	This week on the Sound of Young America, writer, comedian and daily show contributor, Larry Wilmore.
0:47.6	It's unbelievable. Obama is not only popular here at home, but around the world.
0:52.6	And it's not as rhetoric, it's not even his smile, it's something a little more basic.
0:58.9	In that regard, my younger son, Cannon, he is eight.
1:03.0	And he now says that he would like to be black.
1:07.6	Oh, good. He wants, there's a lot of advantages to being black is him.
1:15.4	Two things, John. Larry King has an eight-year-old son that is s*** up.
1:21.9	But secondly, black is in. That hasn't happened in a long time.
1:28.7	I didn't know that you kept track of that.
1:32.7	Look, we've had our moments. During the 60s, we had civil rights.
1:37.1	Gave us a lot of buzz. 30s, Joe Lewis. Gave us a little heat, you know.
1:41.6	But who's going to compete with free suit?
1:44.4	The last time we were in was way back when we built the pyramids.
1:50.7	I don't want to ran on that parade, but I believe you made us build the pyramids.
1:56.4	Like I said, we were in.
1:59.7	It's the sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorne. My guest on the program, Larry Wilmore
2:04.1	is a longtime television writer who wrote for, among other shows, The Fresh Prince of Belair,
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