So lets put some pickles on that pork sandwich and mambo this is the the nightly show cheers and applause cheers and applause larry yes thank you very much welcome to the show. Im your host, larry wilmore. Big news from the white house. Now we all know we gave up on hope a long time ago, but potential change with cuba may be about to happen. Representatives met in havana to discuss reestablishing diplomatic ties between the two countries. An agreement would ultimately lift trade and travel embargoes in place for some 50 years. laughter cheers and applause larry this is really good news. Those ant really good cigars. Cuba. Thats right. Today, for the first time in a generation, the u. S. And cuba are holding highlevel diplomatic talks in public. And like sex in a hatchback, things are off to a rough start. The head of cubas team foreign ministery official Josefina Vidal , criticized the cuban adjustment act, which includes the wet foot dry foot policy. It states that cubans intercepted at sea by u. S. Law enforcement are returned to cuba, while those who make it to u. S. Soil can apply for permanent residency after one year. Larry so if you get to land, you can stay . But if you get caught on the water youre out . Man, thats some highstakes marco polo. Marco you are under arrest polo. Now america is easing restrictions on cuban travel, and commercial airlines like delta and jetblue have already shown interest in routes to havana. No word yet if Spirit Airlines is going to get in on the action, but in all honesty, seriously, you would probably be better off on a damn raft. Sorry spirit. Now, because we havent had relations with cuba in so long, i think we need to do a little catching up. So here to take us through that is our own ricky velez. Ricky, welcome. cheers and applause now, youre cuban, right . Nah, half puerto rican, half irish. Larry close enough. All right. Break it down for us. Larry, i think its really important for people to understand how serious our relationship with cuba is. Lets start with the cuban missile crisis. It was like back in the 50s or 60s. Missiles were flying at cuba. And magneto was down there and was, like, no thanks and the next thing you know, professor x is shot in the back. Now hes got to be in a wheelchair. Larry ricky this has nothing to do with cuba. This sounds like xmen first class. Do you want me to file my report or not, man . Larry of course. Sure. Go ahead. So then after that missile business, americas, like, were not talking to you anymore, cuba. Bye, bitch that was that. So thats the 60s. Now were in the 70s. Next thing you know, Michael Coreleone goes down there to confront fredo because he knows what he did. So michael says, youre going to have to die in a row boat. Bam. 80s. Larry wait a minute. I still think youre talking about movies. Yeah. Documentaries. Can i finish . Larry yes, please. Finish. I cant wait to hear what happens. So then al pacinos so bummed about shooting his brother, he gets all tony montana and hes all first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women. So then its, like, say hello to my little friend. And then hes like bullets firing flash 30 years forward. Thats where we are with cuba. Larry rickey, that wasnt remotely helpful. Youre welcome, larry. Just keeping it 100. Larry ricky velez cheers and applause thank you, ricky all right, let me try to explain it. You know who cuba is to us . You know that uncle that your parents had a falling out with like, 50 years ago, and nobody knows what really happened . Rumors are my dad tried to kill him a couple of times, but hes got this really cool beach house right down the street. You see these old pictures of the crazy parties he used to have with, like, sinatra and hemingway hanging out. Hes got all these 59 chefys. And you were just dying to visit him, and your dads, like, no well, now hes saying, well see. Thats where we are with cuba. The truth is, i dont really know about cuba. Whats it like to live there these days . They dont just go to a grocery store. They have whats called a liberetta where they do the rations. So lets say youre a family of five, you get one chicken a month. Larry one chicken a month . Man, thats horrible here we use a chicken as bread applause were such assholes. laughter actually, i wouldnt mind doubling down right now. Must resist american stomach. Well, it cant get much worse than that. Even when you get internet, its so slow you use it to have mail. Maybe once a month or once a week, you go to facebook to visit friends. Thats our internet. Larry once a month . That place is a hell hole. God, im so angry. Show me that double down again . Mmm. Thanks, double down. Well, this is terrible. So i dont understand why anybody would be against lifting these sanctions. The cuban government in exchange for all of these concessions that the white house has now made has said nothing or done nothing to advance democracy, no freedom of the press no freedom of organization, there will be no election. Larry well, he makes a good point. We dont like doing business with countries that dont have free speech or elections. Unless theyre making our iphones. laughter applause thats all right. Oh the truth oh the truth. This is confusing. Both sides have good points. Look, if we want to use our money to help revitalize a place thats frozen in time with old cars and abandoned factories, lets just go to detroit. laughter right . But if by our presence we can ultimately help improve the way of life for an oppressed people, even if it means that for now they just get a taste of freedom, im okay going to cuba. And im not mad if that taste of freedom comes in the form of a double down. Well be right back. cheers and applause at tmobile, you can hook up the whole family for a 100 a month. Get 4 lines with unlimited talk, text and up to 10 gigabytes of 4g lte data. And now the next big thing is here. Get the hottest device for everybody in the family for 0 down. So you can switch today. New trident unwrapped is the gum you love without a wrapper. Welcome to the easy life. Trident unwrapped. Super useful. Helps fight cavities. Larry were back talking about cuba. Joining me on the panel tonight journalist and c. E. O. Of starfish media group, soledad obrien. Star of the film fugly , now available on demand, John Leguizamo. Our own the nightly show contributor mike yard. And executive director of cuba democracy advocates mauricio clavercarone. Lets get started. I want to get the names right. Thats very important. First, a lot of people brought up the irish shoe, lets not reward a dictator, thats what lifting embargoes do. But we have trade with other countries. Whats about getting the panties in a wad about cuba . Two or three wrong dont make a right. We havent seen russia, saudi arabia or china any improvement in the respect for fundamental freedoms despite all the engagement and trade and everything weve done. To the contrary, weve seen some of the wealthiest tyrannies in Human History develop. We dont want to see that in cuba. Larry you have family in cuba. Yes my mom has relatives. Larry the obrien side . laughter the obrien side. Larry youre for lifting the embargo . Clearly, the embargo failed. It has not worked. Nine administrations of the United States president s has gone through while its been in place. No one can say its been a success so we should continue doing. This i think theres an opportunity. Tomorrow there will be a meeting with highlevel officials and human rights activists in cuba and dissidents in cuba. That wouldnt have happened if the this opportunity hadnt happened. Larry should we be concerned . Off connection to there. Are people concerned . People are cheering in cuba. Larry really . Yes. And in the United States, too. If you look at the polling larry thats what it feels like underground in cuba. I want those 52 beauics with the hydraulics its a low riders dream cuba, man. None of those cars work now. I would disagree about what the people on the ground in cuba feel. The Pro Democracy Movement in cuba is concerned about. This i saw your show last night. Larry thank you very much. Brown noser laughter you said you always stand on the side of the black people. Larry no, no no no, no no what about me, man . Larry i said i voted for obama because hes black. No no no. He was is first black president president. I came out against bill cosby the other night and hes black. applause the administration is normalizing relations with an 85yearold dictator. The Pro Democracy Movement the leaders our Martin Luther kings, the future leaders of cuba in their 40s and 30s, you know, those are the people that we should be embracing. What weve done hasnt worked. Since 61 61, we havent done anything with cuba. It hasnt worked. Now you have an opportunity to bring america to the people. The influence is strong. Im from the Virgin Islands and once america comes in, people want to emulate america, maybe that will give a foothold to those movements. Castro is not dying. Hes 127 years old. laughter weve tried to kill him everything. Hes not going anywhere. Hes chillin right now. laughter so maybe, you know, when america gets in there and the influence takes holds maybe those groups will rise up and get rid of the old way of thinking. Is there a sense from the american latinos community about this . Have you sensed anything out there . A spokesperson you know how it works on this show yeah. There are two parties here. Im colombianpuerto rican so i understand the divide something thats very perm to some cubans that they dont want to open up because their homes were taken from them and their plantations. Its very emotional, i get that. Youve got to respect that. At the same time, its a tiny little island. Its not north korea. If i did a movie like the interview about castro, what is he going to do . Smoke digars . Theyre not going to hack sony. Let them go, set them free even how we treat cuba versus mexico bugs me too that wet foot dry foot thing. We love cubans so we think mexicans . Frearns are the mexicans of the black world. Nobody likes us. The mexicans of the black world . They fight to keep mexicans out you put mexicans under us, you know that right . No, i think i put us on the same plane are americans one big frat party . Sounds like an Awesome Party people who live on 4 a month. Yes, americans come and have your frat party here and pri your dollars. talking at the same time isnt the goal to try to reach there . What were doing is not working so what do you do . Unless youre going to send in the military to take over, what do you do . That raises the point. Cubans love americans and the reason is because we have been on their side. The reason why eastern europeans are the first to join us a is because in the cold war they felt we were on their side. If all of a sudden americans become like canadians that come just to hang out on the beaches and take advantage of the young cuban girls well feel the same way about it, we wont be the beacon of freedom. Americans wont chill on the beach we wont do that belle with right back hi guys. Borrow them both. Oh yeah, borrow them both. Were all about sharing. That stays here. Oh, i love that one. Mmmmmm go try it on girl. Mmmm mmmm, yum not you. The hummus. Sabra hummus, dip life to the fullest. Crispy m ms® are baaaack. 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With the x1 entertainment operating system. cheers and applause larry all right, one of my favorite parts of the show is trying to get real on a personal level. Lets. Keep it 100. This makes me happy. Okay . Im gonna ask each of you a question. You have to answer truthfully and keep it 100 real. If the audience thinks youre keeping it 100 real with us theyll let you know. And ill give you this fancy if you had to pick one group black, latino, to identify with, which one would it be . I just want to say i won an award for all people booing i would say black because black people need a lot of support right now. applause what . You dont believe that . booing larry audience . booing what do you get if you keep it 100 . Something good . Larry i assume youve never killed anyone. Just my assumption. I might be going out on a limb, but. If you could assassinate fidel castro yourself and this is the only chance to get him out of the way, you get him out of the way boom, democracy. You bleep . Sorry, would you kill him . Would you murder him . At this point, hes suffering so much with that colonoscopy larry hes making an amazing comeback and the doctor says you will live another 30 years and youre in the next room laughter my first answer would be to say yes and ask for forgiveness later. applause larry you kept it 100. You cant lie about Something Like that. Larry john, your turn. Im scared now. Larry thats okay. Can i come back next week . Larry yes. Which latino ethnicity do you hate being mistaken for the most . What . I love all my latino people larry keep it 100 laughter audience . applause i like the way you said that. Larry okay mike, this is for you. Now, mike youre good at keeping it 100. This might be tough, okay . So youre on the coast of florida. The refugee raft is just about to hit the shore okay . There are two people on this raft. You only have time to save one person, okay . One is a cuban in other words, if they get on land, theyre free. If theyre wet, they go back. The first one is a cuban refugee. You can unit that person with their family everybody is happy but you get no fame. The other is cuba gooding, jr. laughter now, if you say cuba, he says, yo, man i got millions of dollars for you you dont even got to finish. The refugee is the good one here. applause larry he kept it 100 100 welcome back to showdown im jerry rice here discussing the big race between the tortoise and the hare. My guest is stephanie branton. Jerry, im going bunny. Shocker. Not really. You see, the hares thoracic limbs allow for greater extension and elongated strides. Look for the hare to leverage this advantage. Ok. Vote on twitter for your chance to win a mercedesbenz big race viewing party. Why are we here . Do you have the dialin . Wheres janet . Im gonna live forever theres janet. Shes so fired. Taxes are your year, only much simpler. You can handle simpler. Intuit turbotax. Its amazing what youre capable of. Larry thats all the time we have for tonight. I want to thank our panelists soledad obrien, John Leguizamo mike yard and mauricio clavercarone. They are still arguing right now. Finally, last night i asked you to help me keep it 100 on twitter. As always, the questions poured in. Remember, i dont get a chance to see this question until right now. Okay. Give me the question. Tonights question comes from at andy torrey. laughter would you rather take a steaming hot shower with castro or have obama punch you in the dick . laughter im taking a shower with castro okay . Thats what im doing keeping it 100 applause follow the nightly show on twitter to find out what we have planned for mondays show. Until then, goodnightly cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central its 11 59, and 59 second this happened on usa. 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