MEET LARRY WILMORE: The Daily Show's 'Black Correspondent' Replacing Stephen Colbert
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It was announced on Friday that comedian Larry Wilmore will be taking over Stephen Colbert's post-"Daily Show" time slot on Comedy Central in January 2015.
The show will be called "The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore," and will be <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a comedic look at news, current events and pop culture from unique perspectives not typically on display in late night television," </span>according to the network<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5370ecc1ecad04f4502b03a6-330-500/screen-shot-2014-05-12-at-11.41.51-am.png" border="0" alt="Larry Wilmore book" />But who is Larry Wilmore, the man appointed to the coveted spot as Stephen Colbert's successor, whose show will have the benefit of a "Daily Show" lead-in?</span>
<span><span>Wilmore, 52, has been working in the entertainment industry as a <span>writer, actor, and TV producer </span>since the 1980s. </span></span>
<span><span>After getting his start writing episodes of "In Living Color," "The Office," and "The Bernie Mac Show," Wilmore became known</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to TV audiences when he joined <span>"The Daily Show" in 2006 </span>as the "Senior Black Correspondent."</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Wilmore's appearances on "The Daily Show" often center </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">on humorous observations of the Black experience in American society.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In January 2009, Wilmore </span> <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">published "</span>I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">," a political humor book.</span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">By 2011 he had a recurring role on the ABC comedy "Happy Endings," where he played Damon Wayans, Jr.'s uptight boss.</span> </span>
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2012, Wilmore appeared in a solo Showtime comedy special titled "Larry Wilmore Talks About Race, Religion and Sex in Utah."<span>
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<span>Wilmore has had a field day recently on "The Daily Show," talking all things </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy, and "white people being crazy."</span>
When Jon Stewart asked the Senior Black Correspondent why the race conversation is so explosive right now, Wilmore replied deadpan, "Well Jon, the minorities are mad for the obvious reasons <span>-</span> stop and frisk, unequal opportunities, voter suppression, unfair sentencing laws, Trayvon Martin, stealing our music, diabetes..."
Watch Wilmore discuss his take on more current events below:
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