pipmcskippy
Their lead writers hang to the far left, and don't shy away from writing like it. They try to appeal to an American audience that really doesn't understand half of the jokes their are trying to make, and feel angry about being represented poorly. The show constantly lambastes and blames white people for racially charged issues. Their lead writers are from the MTV show decoded, which is no surprise. Though they clearly neglected their own ratings, as their ratings and viewer-ship has been in a free fall since opening up, such to the point that they've tried to insulate the show's failure by filling the opposite sides of the time slot with hit show hosts like Trevor Noah and Chris Hardwick. Which honestly has insulated the show against failure by most people not bothering to switch away to avoid watching the show. The show's humor is a mixture of Larry reacting in outrage to something that he frankly then paints entirely as something else. Such as several incidents he's only given one side of the story, with out looking at the full story. And the second the full story comes to light, drops what ever the subject they had been going on for about weeks and proceeds to move onto the next racially charged issue as quickly as possible. The show is garbage, and is simply seeking to push a very liberal mind-set upon it's viewers that honestly Colbert did better by portraying republicans in a comical fashion, as opposed to... how the nightly show attempts to constantly portray white people. Even going as far to mock bill Nye when he came on. He's running out of guests, because he mocks his guests to their face, and doesn't even listen to what they have to say when they come on. He's losing his own potential fan-bases based on how he treats guests that come on his show. The sheer number of viewers dropped between Trevor Noah's show and the @midnight show clearly display the real ratings of the show, and yet somehow, the first season got all positive reviews on rotten tomatoes? yet while under 30 percent of viewers liked the show? even less in the first season. It's a failed, unlikable show that needs to be canceled.
Nick Legit
Where do I even begin with this show. First and foremost Larry Wilmore isn't really concerned with addressing what is actually wrong with the world. He just tries to highroad everyone that is currently relevant regardless of whether they are right or wrong. His attitude feels a bit superior and juvenile in nature causing his delivery to be ineffective. This is supposed to be a comedy show but Wilmore takes himself too seriously and instead treats it like his own version of "the View". The formula is to pick a topic to discuss with a panel of his "correspondents" and a guest. However nine times out of ten Wilmore and his correspondents over speculate or decide to focus on petty things instead of actually touching on whats important and needs speculation. Wilmore's co-stars don't help this Hindenburg of a show either since they are entitled, unfunny, and in some cases unreasonably rude to their guests. This show also tries to replicate bits that are similar to bits from "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show" but the writing is so poor and the execution is so bad that it just feels watered down and half-baked. The goal of the show seems to be as follows: Find out what makes the audience cheer, and milk it for all it's worth. Overall it feels like they are trying very hard to gain the audiences support by manipulation and pandering instead of just being good on their own and earning a reputation.
bletcherstonerson
I see a lot of one star ratings about this show, I can't project on why those viewers did not like this show, but after viewing it from the start, it has gotten progressively better, it's at it's zenith. Larry opens and holds the conversation that the country doesn't want to have, but does so with humor and empirical data. This smart combination is presented in a format that allows us to laugh not at racial issues, but why we feel the way we do about those issues. Larry rips through the machinations of our Eurocentric culture and digs into the id and unveils what we have the hardest time observing, our nature. This is all done with great satirical wit and a strong sense of irony that permeates the conversation. The best part of the show is Wilmore, what you see is what you get, him being true to himself as comedian and satirist alone is worth the price of the ticket, your time.
tattle-15111
I love this show...and the diversity of voices, panelists and perspectives; as well as the satirical perspective. Though many viewers want to compare with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report; Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show stands on its own. By the way, I loved those aforementioned shows...but found them sparkling...but not laugh out loud funny.....The Nightly Show continues in the same vein. Larry Wilmore has an enviable television resume as a writer and producer. This program definitely has a audience that is not interested or impressed by solely A list celebrity who appear only to promote their new projects. I do wish the show would bring back the 'Keeping It 100' segment.
