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Larry Wilmore: I'd Rather We Got Casinos

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 02.09.09
Speaker:: Larry Wilmore
Tags:: humor; daily show; race; jesus christ; barack obama

Summary: Larry Wilmore talks about I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts.

Senior correspondent to The Daily Show, Wilmore presents his hilarious and edgy musings, revelations, and ruminations on race, and what he calls his Black Thoughts.

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Larry Wilmore

Larry Wilmore started his career as an actor and stand-up comic before transitioning to television writing and producing in the early 90's. He's written for shows such as In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Jamie Foxx Show. He co-created the animated show The PJs with Eddie Murphy and a few years later created "The Bernie Mac Show" starring Bernie Mac. Most recently he was a consulting producer on NBC's "The Office." "The Daily Show" has marked a return to performing for Wilmore and he is currently developing a sitcom for himself at HBO. He also wrote his first book entitled I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts from Hyperion Books. Wilmore has been nominated and received numerous awards including an Emmy, a Peabody, Humanitas, TV Critics and NAACP Image Award.

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53 min 12 sec

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01.: Introduction

01 min 34 sec

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02.: Early Days Doing Stand-up Political Humor

05 min 21 sec

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03.: Writing for TV

02 min 55 sec

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04.: Twisting Peoples' Ideas of Political Correctness / 'The Office'

03 min 06 sec

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05.: 'The Daily Show'

04 min 02 sec

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06.: Talking to Young People About Politics

01 min 35 sec

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07.: Q1: Amount of Improv of Daily Show

00 min 56 sec

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08.: Q2: How Long Obama Needs to Clean up After Bush

01 min 08 sec

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09.: Q3: Lack of 'Snarkiness'

01 min 15 sec

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10.: Q4: The Colbert Report

00 min 34 sec

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11.: Q5: How Dimples Have Helped Career

00 min 26 sec

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12.: Reading Favorite Chapter: 'In Search of Black Jesus'

06 min 32 sec

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13.: 'Chocolate'

01 min 06 sec

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14.: Q6: Seems Like 'Daily Show' is Way Too Much Fun

01 min 37 sec

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15.: Q7: Being Recognized

01 min 01 sec

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16.: Q8: Richard Pryor

00 min 38 sec

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17.: Q9: Knowing News to do Political Comedy

01 min 11 sec

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18.: Q10: Amount of Rehearsal in 'Daily Show'

00 min 30 sec

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19.: Q11: Writing Own Scripts

00 min 35 sec

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20.: Q12: Being Censored on 'Daily Show'

00 min 57 sec

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21.: Q13: Doing Stand-up Again

00 min 24 sec

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22.: Q14: Growing up

00 min 08 sec

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23.: Q15: Comedy Died When Bush Left?

00 min 40 sec

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24.: Q16: Making Fun of Who's in Power

01 min 24 sec

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25.: Q17: General Consensus on a Credible News Source

01 min 26 sec

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26.: Q18: Changing Way we Talk About Black

02 min 43 sec

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27.: Q19: Getting a Show on TV Now

00 min 40 sec

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28.: Q20: Personal Opinions Coming Through on 'Daily Show'

02 min 00 sec

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29.: Q21: Black Female Comedian you Admire

01 min 18 sec

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30.: Q22: Obama Impersonator

00 min 34 sec

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31.: Q23: Funny as a Baby?

00 min 32 sec

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32.: Q24: Obama is Half Black

03 min 12 sec

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33.: Q25: Teaching People to be Funny

00 min 52 sec

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53 min 12 sec

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Daily Show Comedian Larry Wilmore Reflects on His Career

03 min 21 sec

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Comedian Larry Wilmore talks about his "Benjamin Button" style career, transitioning from gigs as an award winning writer and producer for Bernie Mac and The Office, to his current gig on The Daily Show.
Larry Wilmore: In Search of a Black Jesus

06 min 24 sec

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From his new book I'd rather We Got Casionos, Larry Wilmore reads an expert on the likelihood that Jesus was black.

Clue number one: "From the moment of the immaculate conception, the question of the 'Who the baby daddy?' was already an issue."
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