Yes were back thank you welcome to the the nightly show im Larry Wilmore last night was the 87th annual academy awards. What a great show. And i have to be honest with you. I was a little concerned because the oscars were sort of set up to be like a new york city winter long and white. To be fair. To be fair. But i thought Neil Patrick Harris did a good job acknowledging that. Tonight we honor hollywoods best and whitest sorry brightest. Larry see, thats a pro right there. You acknowledge the awkward racial reality of the evening and move on. Well done, sir. What else . Octavia spencer, no matter what happens tonight, do not take your eyes off the briefcase, got it . No bathroom breaks. No chitchat. Larry hold on a second. You cant make a joke about how white the oscars are and then turn around and literally make Octavia Spencer the help not well done, sir. Im going to have to take that back. Look, these oscars were so white that when lonnie lynn and John Stephens won for best song, th
Get in the buffet line, this is the the nightly show cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central audience chanting larrys name larry yes thank you thank you i appreciate it. Yes were back thank you welcome to the the nightly show im Larry Wilmore last night was the 87th annual academy awards. What a great show. And i have to be honest with you. I was a little concerned because the oscars were sort of set up to be like a new york city winter long and white. To be fair. To be fair. But i thought Neil Patrick Harris did a good job acknowledging that. Tonight we honor hollywoods best and whitest sorry brightest. Larry see, thats a pro right there. You acknowledge the awkward racial reality of the evening and move on. Well done, sir. What else . Octavia spencer, no matter what happens tonight, do not take your eyes off the briefcase, got it . No bathroom breaks. No chitchat. Larry hold on a second. You cant make a joke about how white the oscars are and then turn around and l
And i have to be honest with you. I was a little concerned because the oscars were sort of set up to be like a new york city winter long and white. To be fair. To be fair. But i thought Neil Patrick Harris did a good job acknowledging that. Tonight we honor hollywoods best and whitest sorry brightest. Larry see, thats a pro right there. You acknowledge the awkward racial reality of the evening and move on. Well done, sir. What else . Octavia spencer, no matter what happens tonight, do not take your eyes off the briefcase, got it . No bathroom breaks. No chitchat. Larry hold on a second. You cant make a joke about how white the oscars are and then turn around and literally make Octavia Spencer the help not well done, sir. Im going to have to take that back. Look, these oscars were so white that when lonnie lynn and John Stephens won for best song, they couldnt even use their black names. Thats right, commons real name is lonnie lynn. Good call on the name change, lonnie. Just saying. Bu
I guess well get them next time. Jon thats our show. Good luck everybody watch nightly. By the way in all of hullabaloo of the week before and the announcement of leaving and everything, i forgot to till, that, here it is on is on the blue ray and there are all kinds of feet oours, me dancing naked a bunch. cheers and applause jon you can get ahold of us t is on blue ray you can use it in your blue ray player. But its designed for. Here it is your moment of zen. They have adopted a theory of religion that is a thousand years old. They are required to worldwide call caliphate that will purify the islamic religion, kill or pervert every christ captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org larry tonightly the oscars hollywood finally watches a mexican cleanup without also asking him to see a dessert menu. Were asking who loves america more, the president or mr. Mcgee . And who owns patriotism anyway . Probably the same people who own Ever
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