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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Trump’s Casual Lying and Norman Lear on Creating Socially Impactful Television (Ep. 1)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore kicks off the inaugural episode of 'Black on the Air' by riffing on the firing of FBI Director James Comey and President Trump’s casual relationship with the truth. Then he sits down with legendary television producer Norman Lear to discuss Lear’s string of socially impactful television shows, what he learned fighting in World War II, and how he created "the lovable bigot" Archie Bunker on 'All in the Family.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:07.1

This is Larry Wilmore and I am Black I'm the air.

0:11.1

That's what you're listening to Larry Wilmore, Black I'm the air.

0:14.4

And I'm back in the air as well and I'm so excited guys.

0:18.8

First of all, thanks for listening to this podcast.

0:22.0

I really appreciate it.

0:23.6

This is a very exciting day for me.

0:25.4

I've been looking forward to this for a long time.

0:28.3

And I want to thank, before I get started, I just want to thank all the supporters out

0:31.8

there who people treat me all the time.

0:34.7

Larry, we need you Larry, we need you going to be back.

0:39.5

And you know, I really appreciate that.

0:43.4

People have been very passionate about wanting to hear from me and I felt what better way

0:48.1

than to use this medium, the medium of the podcast.

0:53.1

And people have been asking what have I been up to and that sort of thing and I'll fill

0:57.2

you up on that.

0:58.2

But you know, before I mention that, I just want to give a lot of people who aren't familiar

1:03.3

with me, just a brief background on who I am.

1:07.4

I've been both the performer and a writer producer for a long time in this business, a lot

1:12.7

longer than I care to admit sometimes.

1:14.8

But I started my career as a stand up comic, you know, as a performer.

1:17.9

And I was kind of frustrated with the way Hollywood was kind of paying attention to people

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