‘The Nightly Show’: Larry Wilmore Proved Race Matters in Late Night

Larry Wilmore Proved Race Matters In His ‘Nightly Show’ Cancellation “How was your day?” Larry Wilmore asked his audience on Monday night, a puckish reference to the news that had come down earlier in his day: His version of The Nightly Show has been cancelled. When Wilmore said that his show “going off the air means only one thing: racism is solved,” he may have been phrasing the sentiment as a joke, but it carried the heavy weight of bitter irony: The one show on the air that persisted on viewing much of pop culture and politics through the lens of race proved to be the one most quickly jettisoned by its network. On Monday, Wilmore moved into one of his signature segments, “The Unblackening,” which covers the upcoming election and which, as the segment title suggests, Wilmore views primarily as the removal of Barack Obama from office.