The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore on the ‘Stop Snitchin’ Trend
A Pew Reseach Center survey recently found that viewers of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert were just as knowledgable as readers of major newspapers and much more knowledgable than viewers of Fox News. We know what this says about Fox, but what does it say about mainstream newspapers if “fake news” shows on Comedy Central match their quality? Presumably readers of The Michigan Citizen weren’t surveyed.
Stewart and Colbert haven’t gone without criticism though, and until recently their most glaring offense has been a lack of racial diversity among the casts. Colbert’s contest to find “a new black friend” was really stupid, but the Daily Show has followed through with the solid casting of Aasif Madvi as its Senior Iraqi Corespondent, and Larry Wilmore as the show’s Senior Black Corespondent.
On the May 3 “fake newscast”, Wilmore offered a frank, but hilarious analysis of the “Stop Snitchin’” trend that is growing among hip hop artists and the greater Black community. According to Wilmore there is hope for the inner city through gentrification.
