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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

South Beach Sessions - Larry Wilmore

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.631.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Comedy is lucky to have Larry Wilmore... From his beloved Los Angeles, the Emmy Award—winning producer, writer, actor, and comedian explains to Dan how it all began with him writing for the iconic "In Living Color", taking the "high road" after getting fired as executive producer from "The Bernie Mac Show", and how "The Daily Show" led to the dream of hosting the White House Correspondents' Dinner for President Barack Obama (not to mention his own groundbreaking late-night show, "The Nightly Show"). Larry also reveals some news about his long-running podcast, "Black On The Air", and then has some other tricks up his sleeve... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to get the best people.

0:33.6

Larry Wilmore has been not just a face and voice for comedy in front of your face, but he's been doing a lot behind the scenes as well.

0:41.6

His podcast, very popular and interview podcast, Black on Air with the Ringer.

0:45.9

When I describe you as actor, writer, comedian, producer, and creator, if I give you the choice of those five, which one of those

0:56.5

do you most like? Which is the one that you say? That's the one. You know what? I think of

1:02.1

all one's probably producer. I think because I like putting the puzzle together is my

1:07.5

favorite thing. I enjoy being on camera and acting and performing,

1:12.1

but there's something about putting the puzzle together

1:14.7

that appeals to me a lot, you know, figuring the thing out,

1:18.0

which is tied to creating, too, you know,

1:20.0

creating TV shows and that kind of stuff,

1:21.6

which I'm always in the middle of doing at some stage

1:24.5

and probably doing several at the same time.

1:27.3

So that kind of 3D chess is just fun.

1:30.7

You're putting people together, putting ideas together.

1:33.2

You don't know if something's going to work, you know, really until it gets on its feet.

1:37.2

And then it's a living organism.

1:39.6

It's not just an idea, you know.

1:43.1

So there's a lot that goes into.

1:44.8

Most people, though, who are on camera or front facing, I was expecting almost everyone I

1:49.0

talked to who has been a stand-up comedian chooses stand-up comedy as the one.

1:53.7

But you've made so many things in so many places for those who don't know in the creating

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