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01/23/2015

ConStar Clicks

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#ConStarClicks No. 6 features some writerly advice form Eric Haywood, the evolution of Nickelodeon’s kidsitcom format & some Larry Wilmore praise. Click at your own risk!

05/17/2014

Comedy Central Stepped Up to the Diversity Challenge – Welcoming Larry Wilmore to Late Night

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Welcome Larry Wilmore to the Late Night bunch! I’ll definitely be watching his show, The Minority Report–a cliched but perfect title for both what it is and before what’s it’s replacing.With Larry Wilmore’s role as “Senior Black Correspondent” on the Daily Show, we already have an idea of what the show will entail, but it also means (hopefully) more black late night writers and more discussions of black issues that the Daily Show doesn’t cover.

09/26/2013

Link: Key & Peele explain how they created 'Substitute Teacher' – The Week

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Interview: Key & Peele explain how they created ‘Substitute Teacher’ – The Week. “But when you bring someone back, you want to make sure it’s not just a cookie-cutter, by-the-numbers version of the original sketch, where you have the exact same gag with different names. It was very, very difficult for us to figure out […]

09/25/2013

What I Love About Key and Peele

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Key and Peele is brilliant comedy and exactly what I want more of on television. What I mean when I say that is that Key and Peele are black comedians, but the things they joke about and goof on aren’t always things that are considered apart of black culture. Sure, they do sketches on smoking weed and […]