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Larry Wilmore has been keeping pretty busy since The Nightly Show aired its final episode on Comedy Central last summer, between helping co-create HBO’s Insecure with Issa Rae and serving as the executive producer on the ABC sitcom Black-ish, but the comedian announced Tuesday that he’s adding another project to his schedule: a podcast with the Ringer, Bill Simmons’s digital-media venture out of Los Angeles.
Wilmore’s new show will be called Black on the Air, and the first episode is slated to drop this Thursday. In a press release, Bill Simmons said: “Larry is one of a kind — not just one of the best thinkers and fearless voices we have, but someone who can talk to anyone about anything … I think it makes perfect sense for Larry to become the 22,354,919th human being with a podcast.”
Indeed, Wilmore’s…
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