Now that Comedy Central has announced that "Daily Show" Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore will succeed Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" with a show of his own — "The Minority Report" — we figured it'd be a good time to run through some of this smart and sardonic comedian's greatest "Daily Show" moments.
For example, here's one of our favorites, a bit from February in which Wilmore absolutely shreds the Civil War revisionism of Fox News libertarian Andrew Napolitano:
Here's another recent winner, with Wilmore explaining that he'd be fine with the next president being any ethnicity..."as long as they're black":
And here's Wilmore skewering Sen. Rand Paul for his ill-fated attempt to explain black history to the students at Howard University:
More recently, Wilmore deftly dismantled the racism of Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy:
And for proof that he doesn't need to be seated next to Jon Stewart to be funny, here's a 2012 clip of Wimore on MSNBC's "The Ed Show," mocking Mitt Romney for logging zero — count it, zero — percent of black support in a late-campaign poll:
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