The showed premiered in January 2015 at 11:30 p.m. after Jon Stewart’s wildly successful The Daily Show. Though, on the plus side, our show going off the air has to only mean one thing: Racism is solved.
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In contrast, Wilmore’s late night show averaged 922,000 viewers in its first year, and dropped to 776,000 viewers a night this year, according to Nielsen. “I’m just so proud that we were able to take on real issues and hopefully say something powerful while making people laugh”, he continued.
Comedy Central has made a decision to say farewell to it’s series The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
As Wilmore continued on with Monday’s show, he remarked fondly on numerous show’s segments, including the “final pointless episode” of “Pardon the Integration”.
“I’m really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and our fans” the former Daily Show correspondent told THR. “Unfortunately it hasn’t resonated with our audience”, Alterman revealed.
He said during his opening that the show was geared around having some tough conversation about uncomfortable topics.
For the first time since 2008, Comedy Central won’t have two political comedy shows to cover the U.S. Presidential election. The newly re-vamped “Daily Show”, with South African Trevor Noah at the helm, logs almost 280,000 by comparison.
For the past two years, Larry Wilmore and his staff have crafted a platform that addresses race, politics and views on society that challenge thought and perspective with The Nightly Show.
The “unblackening” is a term Wilmore coined this election season – and he defines it as the “de-Negrofying of the White House”. “I guess I hadn’t counted on ‘The Unblackening” happening to my time slot as well”.
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A ratings drop-off from Colbert Report was expected, but an Adweek analysis in February, a year into his run, showed Wilmore’s audience was 55 percent lower than Colbert’s.
