Tonight's guest On The Daily Show is Martin O'Malley. Tonight the Nightly show has its first musical guest Raury who will also join Larry, Mike Yard, and Natasha Rothwell on the panel discussing racial profiling.
Martin O'Malley is an American politician who was the 61st Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as Governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007 and was a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999. He is currently running in the the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election.
Don’t Count Out Martin O’MalleyI listened to his interview on Democracy Now a while ago. I was not happy with how he handled the criticism of the way police operated under his watch in Baltimore.Maryland’s Martin O’Malley looked and sounded studly on the debate stage last week, which is exactly the impression he needed to convey his youthful message of new leadership. Though the night, by consensus, belonged to Hillary Clinton, O’Malley and Clinton were really the only two polished debaters among the five candidates on stage. O’Malley asserted himself and his record as forcefully as Clinton defended her many contradictory positions on issues.There was no doubt that O’Malley’s summary statement was clearly the most compelling and winsome of the five. It came across as genuine, heartfelt, inclusive, forward-thinking and, above all, patently progressive and Democratic, the primal scream of the party’s 2016 elections. It was constructed to offer a sharp contrast to the comic-opera Republican debates and to deftly expose the shallows of the GOP gallery of candidates.
DAVID SIMON: It was almost as if he couldn’t get the reductions in the murder rate that he had promised as a candidate, and the next three or four years were: "Let’s just throw everybody in the back of a van." And if you think I’m exaggerating, all you have to do is read the ACLU’s suit that the city eventually settled, because it didn’t matter who you were. It didn’t matter if you were somebody sitting on your own stoop or a schoolteacher or somebody coming home from work. If you looked at a cop the wrong way in Baltimore in about those three central years when Marty was trying to become governor, you went in the back of a police van, you were taken down to the city jail, you know, held overnight.I hope the conversation tonight will at least touch upon the actions of Baltimore police.AMY GOODMAN: That was David Simon of The Wire. Your response, Governor O’Malley?
MARTIN O’MALLEY: Yeah, David Simon is a very creative guy, and many of the things that he was saying are actually not true. And the strongest evidence in our short time together that I can cite for it is this: If the things that David says were actually true, I would not have been re-elected with 88 percent of the vote in a majority African-American city, nor would I have received the overwhelming support I received, when I ran for governor, from the poorest parts of our city, who were relieved, frankly, at having what had been a 20-year continued occupation by drug dealers 24/7 in their neighborhoods.
I had been on a constant search in treating this wound that we share as Americans, where the issues of violent crime, gun violence, race and law enforcement are all painfully tied together. And over the course of those 15 years, I have learned what has worked, and I have learned what has not. And the things that have not, we have stopped doing. I repealed the death penalty, restored voting rights to 52,000 people, decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, drove our incarceration rate down to a 20-year low. And during my time as mayor, I actually improved police and community relations, and we recorded what remained three of the four lowest years for use of lethal force by Baltimore City police officers. And the fact of the matter is, even with the heartbreaking setback of a few months ago, after Freddie Gray’s—after the protests after Freddie Gray’s custodial death, the fact of the matter is, in the prior year before that, arrest levels in Baltimore were down to, I think, a 25- or 30-year low. And the arrest levels actually peaked some 12 years ago. So, David’s a—David’s a creative guy, though, and he’s made a lot of money being very creative about the story of Baltimore.
First-ever #NightlyShow musical guest @Raury performs "Fly,"#TONIGHTLY on @ComedyCentral, 11:30ET. Watch the video: https://t.co/...
— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) October 19, 2015#TONIGHTLY: @Raury, @mikeyardcomedy& @natasharothwell talk about racial profiling 11:30/10:30c on @ComedyCentral. pic.twitter.com/eWjjMNPtFY
— The Nightly Show (@nightlyshow) October 20, 2015Rauryis an American musician from Atlanta, Georgia. He is known for his eclectic sound mixing soul, hip hop and folk.
Mike Yardis a contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Yard was previously the winner of Comedy Central's Get Up, Stand Up comedy competition.
Natasha Rothwellis a comedy performer, writer and director living and working in New York. This sometimes worries her mother. Natasha is a graduate of the University of Maryland theater program where she was a Creative and Performing Arts Scholar. She has performed at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, and Arena Stage. After moving to New York, she studied at The Peoples Improv Theater where she won the NBC Universal Diversity Scholarship, and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater where she was selected to perform at the Just for Laughs 2012: New Faces Characters Showcase in Montreal.
This Week's Guest List
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, Comedy Central
Mo 10/19: Martin O'Malley
Tu 10/20: Judah Friedlander
We 10/21: Brie Larson
Th 10/22: John Harwood
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, CBS
Mo 10/19: Malala Yousafzai, Kerry Washington, the Arcs (R 9/25/15)
Tu 10/20: Kevin Spacey, Carol Burnett, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp (R 9/16/15)
We 10/21: Amy Schumer, Stephen King, Troubled Waters (R 9/11/15)
Th 10/22: Tom Hanks, John Oliver, Evan Spiegel, Bill Withers, Ed Sheeran (R 9/30/15)
Fr 10/23: Lupita Nyong'o, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild, Leanne Cope (R 9/18/15)CONAN, TBS
Mo 10/19: Elijah Wood, John Fogerty, Richard Thompson
Tu 10/20: Zachary Levi, Gabrielle Union, Marian Hill
We 10/21: Elvis Costello, Nathan Fielder
Th 10/22: Sarah Silverman, Paige, Megan GaileyJIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
Mo 10/19: Bill Murray, Ryan Adams, Misty Copeland
Tu 10/20: Jay Z, Donald Trump, music from "TIDAL X: 1020"
We 10/21: Michael J. Fox, Joy Behar, Big Grams
Th 10/22: Bradley Cooper, Robin Roberts, Tracy Morgan, Esperanza Spalding, Paul Shaffer
Fr 10/23: Howard Stern, Public EnemyTHE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBC
Mo 10/19: Justin Timberlake, Ellen DeGeneres, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (R 9/9/15)
Tu 10/20: Hillary Clinton, Dakota Johnson, Fetty Wap (R 9/16/15)
We 10/21: Justin Bieber, Salman Rushdie (R 9/2/15)
Th 10/22: Andy Samberg, Carrie Underwood (R 9/10/15)
Fr 10/23: Donald Trump, Terrence Howard, Pharrell Williams (R 9/11/15)
It is good to be back. It was a productive week. We did some demo on a Sandy damaged house (removed all of the water pipes, the radiator pipes and electrical in the basement and took down the cabinets and lathe and plaster in the kitchen) as well as served lunch and dinner at a soup kitchen and helped restock a food pantry (I moved 7 pallets worth of food off a conveyer and stacked them to be carted by a hand truck). It was fun and exhausting but always feels great to be able to help out.