Line #41 Series/TheNightlyShow


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3	''The Nightly Show'' was a late-night political talk show hosted by Creator/LarryWilmore that premiered in January 2015 on Creator/ComedyCentral. It was a {{spinoff}} of ''Series/TheDailyShow'', taking ''Series/TheColbertReport'''s former spot.
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5	The first half of the show had Larry offering humorous insights upon current events, sometimes discussing it with a contributor. The second half featured a panel discussion with guests and other celebrities about a major news story. The end segment was a questionnaire called "Keep it 100", where Larry asked his guests incisive questions, and Larry himself answered questions from Website/{{Twitter}} users.
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7	The series was canceled in August 2016 due to dropping/poor ratings. The final episode aired on August 18, 2016.
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9	!!The Nightly Tropes:
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11	* AirGuitar: Larry does it during the title sequence, in a ''bathroom'' for some reason.
12	* AudienceParticipation: Larry encourages audience members to cheer or boo the guests if they do or do not think that they were "keeping it 100." He usually ends most shows by answering one question submitted by viewers via Website/{{Twitter}}. During March Madness, Larry asked viewers to submit suggestions of outlandish activities he should do depending on how the tournament goes.
13	* BigRedButton: Apparently Larry has one for "science emergencies" that summons UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson.
14	* BigWhat: If something or someone confuses Larry, he'll say "Whuuuuuuuuut?" with an accompanying "Whuuuuuuuuut?" caption and backing vocal.
15	* BlackAndNerdy: Larry self-identifies as a "[[JustForFun/OneOfUs blerd]]", [[NWordPrivileges but only other nerds get to call him that]].
16	* BloodFromTheMouth: Roy Albanese plays the proprietor of a water park as part of the coverage on Flint, Michigan's man-made water disaster. First he gets a nosebleed, then it comes out of his ears, and finally he's spitting up blood and teeth on camera.
17	* BrutalHonesty: In "Keep it 100", Larry and guests are expected to answer with "100%" honesty. If Larry is satisfied with their honesty, he gives them an "I kept it 100" sticker. If he thinks they were lying, they get "weak tea" (a dry teabag) and booed by the audience.
18	* ButtMonkey: Mike Yard in the "Pardon the Integration" segments, where he and Rory argue an issue and then switch sides. Invariably, when Mike switches to the "bad" side--no matter how much Larry assures him the debate is meaningless and will be treated as such--Larry and Rory accuse him of ''really believing'' that, e.g., a woman shouldn't be president. Even when he tries to argue the point in a positive way, they gang up on him.
19	* CatchPhrase:
20	** Began every show with "Tonightly!" until the cold open was eliminated in February 2016. He still uses it in promos.
21	** Also "That's right, motherfucker, I haven't forgotten about you!" whenever he brings up Creator/BillCosby.
22	* ChronicVillainy: Even when it's his own legal team, Bill Cosby [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZYcUpINANg just can't stop drugging people.]]
23	* CompensatingForSomething: When UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump shows up at an Iowa caucus in a shiny new helicopter:
24	-->'''Larry''': [[KnowWhenToFoldEm I give up]], [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke how small is this guy's penis?]]
25	* ConspiracyTheorist: Mike Yard's The Y Files segment
26	* CrowdChant: At the start of the show, the audience chants Larry's name much like how they'd chant Creator/StephenColbert's name on ''Series/TheColbertReport''.
27	* DeadpanSnarker: Larry.
28	* DespairEventHorizon: When Larry discussed the number of toddlers killed by guns weekly on October 20, 2015 episode, he had to use the Nightly Show's Soundproof Despair Booth to let out his depressing emotions about how often it happens while Mike Yard is there to keep the audience company. He remarked that the last time Larry had to use the booth was when the Dodgers lost to the Mets in the 2015 MLB Playoffs.
29	* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a segment, even {{Satan}}, UsefulNotes/IdiAmin, and UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler do [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ztpfpe/the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore-george-zimmerman-s-shocking-gun-auction not want to be associated with George Zimmerman.]]
30	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Mike Yard's response to a children's book about UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington's slaves baking him a cake (which conveniently doesn't say they're slaves until in a footnote on the very last page) is his own venture into "whimsical" portrayals of happy slaves entitled ''Massa Dies''.
31	-->'''Yard:''' Spoiler alert, Larry: massa dies.
32	* ExplosiveDecompression: When Larry is [[BlackAndNerdy blerding]] out about space:
33	-->'''Larry''': Anyway, I grew up loving space, and space love is a tough love, because the object of your affections, space, will crush your lungs and suck clean every fluid from your body in mere seconds. Is it like marriage? In many ways, yes, it is.
34	* FalseReassurance: Discussed. Larry refers to this as "Keeping it 70" as opposed to 100.
35	* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: If a guest takes too long to answer a "Keep it 100" question, Larry and the audience assume they're being dishonest, and they get "weak tea" and boos.
36	* InsaneTrollLogic: Larry's "Conservative Calculator" he breaks out when trying to solve the problem of how gay marriage would lead to 900,000 abortions... somehow.
37	* ItIsDehumanizing: Larry described the sexual harassment suit between Gretchen Carlson and Roger Ailes as:
38	-->'''Larry''': It's just a classic case of "She said, it said."
39	* JiveTurkey: Seventies Larry, a/k/a "Soul Daddy," shown in clips from [[ShowWithinAShow Larry's old seventies public access talk show]].
40	* MediaScaremongering: The 2016 election coverage uses dramatic music and negative-color graphics of the White House for ''THE UNBLACKENING: Blacklash 2016...'' and then fades out to Larry doing a little dance to the scare chords. Made better since the 2016 party conventions by showing {{Kaiju}}-like versions of Donald Trump and UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton staging a Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-esque battle.
41	* MicDrop: On the 1/28/16 show, UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson does this after destroying rapper B.O.B.'s "proofs" that the Earth is flat and calling out him and other anti-intellectuals for deliberately trying to tear down science and spread ignorance.
42	-->'''Neil [=DeGrasse=] Tyson''': And by the way, ''this''... is called "gravity"!
43	* NewsParody: While ''Series/TheDailyShow'' is a parody of network news, and ''Series/TheColbertReport'' is a parody of personality-driven editorial programs, ''The Nightly Show'' is a parody of political pundit panel discussion shows. Like the aforementioned, it reads real news in a humorous way, but then kicks off to a panel discussion which involves a mix of pundits and comedians to give the debate an improv humor feel.
44	* NWordPrivileges: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. Just because Larry gives you permission does not mean you should actually use it.
45	-->'''Larry:''' [[ILied Just 'cause I told you]], you shouldn't do that ''[[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]]'', [[SchmuckBait you should know better]]!
46	** Discussed during the June 22, 2015 episode. After the mass shooting at the black AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist, President Obama used the word in an interview about race relations, making the point that just because the word isn't used in polite society, and unacceptable if it is used, does ''not'' mean that the country's gotten over racism. Larry and guests agreed, also adding that what defines its acceptability is the context in which it's used.
47	** [[invoked]] Also [[{{Parody}} parodied]] during the same episode. After black CNN newsanchor Don Lemon held a sign that said the word during a segment about the AME shooting, [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn Larry found his behavior unhelpful in challenging racism]], humorously wondering how awkward it must have been for the (presumably) white CNN intern who ordered such a sign from a copy shop.
48	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: On a show that's covered terrible civil rights violations and race based shootings, no story has been given more time than the Bill Cosby rape accusations.
49	-->'''Larry''': "That's right, [[SoundEffectBleep motherf**ker]], I haven't forgotten about you!"
50	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Larry gives Bill Cosby a merciless one when he comes to the conclusion that Cosby found his drugging and raping of women to be funny.
51	* SadisticChoice: The "Keep it 100" segments often involve having the guests choose between two hypothetical options, each of which has a major upside and a corresponding downside.
52	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: On the December 8, 2015 episode, Mike Yard, Ricky Valez, and the Trump Troll refused to do their skits involving Donald Trump wanting to ban all Muslims from the US.
53	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The show's "black egghead," Felonious Monk, speaks in an overlong stream of academia, and is subsequently puzzled when Larry has to pause and then translate it into simpler terms.
54	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Whenever Larry gets booed by the audience during his Keep It 100 question.
55	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: [[invoked]] {{Discussed\|Trope}} by Larry on his episode about women and minorities in comics. He asserts that the backlash that sometimes follows reveals of {{Legacy Character}}s having new iterations of different races and sexes has less to do with racism and sexism, and more to do with nerds tending to be upset when something changes.
56	* TotallyRadical: The snowboarding, skateboarding, surfer-dude "radical Muslim" who's like, totally bummed about his good name being tarnished.
57	* TranquilFury: When the deposition in regards to Bill Cosby's rape allegations were released, Wilmore responded by [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tearing him to pieces]]. In fact, the show has not covered any other issue for anywhere ''near'' as long as the Bill Cosby case.
58	--> '''Wilmore:''' "I'm not letting it go, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]]."
59	* YankTheDogsChain: The recurring segment, Pardon the Integration - a parody of Crossfire-type segments where two people with polar opposite opinions yell back and forth at each other - usually uses Mike Yard as a ButtMonkey when he needs to switch to the view that the show opposes by having Larry and Rory Albanese (who plays opposite him on the segment) completely misinterpret his arguments into StrawmanPolitical territory. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/y92822/the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore-pardon-the-integration---are-voter-identification-laws-racist- One time]], however, Mike actually managed to get in an argument that stumped Rory in favor of voter ID laws. He then mocked people who say mean things about President Obama, which Rory and Larry then took as ''him'' saying mean things about the President, thus leading to Rory winning the debate again.

Context Series / TheNightlyShow