I gave this show a shot but the fact is, it sucks and isn’t funny.
Critics are fellating it yet the people have a starkly different take. The Nightly Show sucks ass. Larry Wilmore is taking over Stephen Colbert’s timeslot in this daily visit into the world of the news while trying to make people laugh. Only one problem – this isn’t funny. I couldn’t bring myself to laugh at anything during any of the episodes I watched. At one point, I found myself actually pissed off. This guy isn’t funny at all. He’s trying to be and the “audience” or laugh track or whatever it is – they’re sheep. They’d laugh at a sign telling them to…oh wait.
Don’t just take my word for it, though. Some users had this to say, from Metacritic.
This is completely unwatchable. Larry is just not a likeable character, but more importantly is unable to be funny.
After a couple weeks I still have not seen anything funny on this show. Larry Willmore seems uncomfortable. The guests I have seen were neither funny nor informed. The entire show feels awkward.
This show is totally unwatchable. I thought maybe I was being to hard on it because Colbert was genius so I continued to give it a chance. Each show is as bad or worse than the previous. Comedy Central, pull the plug. You can do better than this.
The statement on the show feeling awkward is perfect. It truly does. Has this guy been on TV before? I get it, he used to guest host The Daily Show but he is a nervous wreck on this shit and I am telling you, the show is shit.
Update:
Months after I wrote this review, the show has continued to suck. There is no uptick in sight. The show is painful – and I’m cool with more liberal-minded shows (I take jabs at liberals for fun sometimes, because if you only make fun of the other side, you lose meaning to people who think you can’t handle the heat).
I want to elaborate on why I hate this show. It is lazy. It is unoriginal. The panel discussion amounts to an easy-way-out to fill a segment and it ends up being neither interesting nor informative. And as for humor, well, it is especially devoid of that.
Wilmore’s opening anchor moments, which suck, are the best parts of the show.
The show also gives a voice to anti-vaxxers, Glenn Beck personalities and people who don’t deserve to be on television. Unfortunately, this show, itself, does not deserve to be on TV either.
Check out some of the other TV shows that blow. Or movies. Or video games. We play hard ball here.
It’s kinda weird that Larry Wilmore is a total racist and yet comedy central promotes the shit out of him…….clearly a racist almost every episode has race jokes in them.
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I too think the show sucks. I tried many times to watch it. I thought it would be funny and informative. It is neither. They trivialize important topics in a effort to make it funny and they fail every time. I got so frustrated with the show, I just stop watching it.
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I’ve been watching the show since day one and I’m ready to write if off as a racist propaganda show. Every day it’s always about the poor black person being wronged by white racists. You’ve worn it out, I’m done. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has done the same thing and I’m done with it too. Does everything have to be racism?
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Worse than Larry’s awkwardness is his choice to put Grace Parra anywhere near his show. Robin Thede is almost as unwatchable, but she really sealed the deal for me. Nothing funny there, and completely obnoxious.
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Larry Wilmore is god-awful, and his show blows donkey balls. You get the sense that he knows it as well, when he looks out into the audience after receiving forced and tepid applause for one of his “jokes.” Apparently you don’t have to be funny or talented to have a show on Comedy Central anymore. It seems that nowadays diversity trumps anything and everything else. Sigh…
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Each show might as well be titled “How white people did something bad this today.” This show is incredibly racist and one sided. Not to mention it’s about as funny as stepping on a tack. Comedy Central has really misplaced the comedy in this choice.
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The writers are all horrible. The bits are just forced nonsense. They have to kill this show. It’s unwatchable. Sorry Larry. You’re the only talent and it’s just not working out.
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