Larry Wilmore On Paris Attacks: "At Times Like This, People Do Need To Laugh" - New York Comedy Festival

Astrophysicist and sometime Nightly Show guest Neil deGrasse Tyson led a panel Saturday afternoon with host Larry Wilmore and top staff from the Comedy Central program, leading off the discussion by saying that Wilmore and company are “reaching for the most awkward, challenging social issues and somehow empowering people to laugh, and that is not easy to do. These are topics people don’t want to touch.” But it wasn’t until an hour later, near the end of the event at the…