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Old May 12th, 2014 #73
Alex Linder
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Why You Should Be Excited/Nervous/Excited Again About ‘The Minority Report’
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MAY 12, 2014

by REMBERT BROWNE

Looking back on articles written before May 9, 2014, it’s a struggle to find evidence of any publication throwing Larry Wilmore’s name into the “People Who Could Replace Colbert” hat. Predictions came far and wide, from an Amy Schumer to a Chris Hardwick to an Aziz Ansari or even a Donald Glover. Wilmore’s presence was so under-the-radar, in fact, he often didn’t even make the cut when “any Daily Show correspondent” was a designated contender pool (Jessica Williams, Aasif Mandvi, Al Madrigal, Samantha Bee, and Jason Jones were listed).

But then May 10 happened. And it was announced that Larry Wilmore would be the one to replace Stephen Colbert. A man with a long, storied, successful career, one often distilled into a single phrase (The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent”), would take over Colbert’s old time slot with a show titled The Minority Report With Larry Wilmore.

My initial reaction to the announcement was one of pure elation. There’s the gut reflex of happiness when these historically white spaces become more diversified, but I knew it was more than that. Because it wasn’t any random person, it was Larry Wilmore. And if you want to play the dangerous game of “who deserves what,” Wilmore is certainly someone who has paid his dues, not only with longevity, but with a specific type of success that has kept him as a behind-the-scenes architect for many risky, left-field, majority-black projects of the past 20 years.

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