Ian Crouch adds to the chorus of voices saying bye-bye to The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. I said I'll miss the show and I will…though as I think of it, I think what I'll miss mainly is Wilmore's Act One monologue from the desk. Act Two was usually a sketch involving the show's regular contributors…and I liked a lot of those folks and bits, though I thought they had too many contributors. A few less and we might have gotten to know some of them better. And the fact that we didn't made the Act Three round table discussion in each Nightly Show a bit less than involving.
But my quibbles are small and I do think it was a good program. I wish they could have kept it around or at least retitled it The Weekly Show and run it once a week. I suspect part of the problem with the ratings is that Comedy Central programming is skewing younger and raunchier and it just wasn't fitting in.