Larry Wilmore didn’t “bomb”: His Washington performance was precisely what comedy should be — cutting elites down to size

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,” goes a popular saying.
The same could be said of comedy. The best comics cut their teeth blasting the establishment, pillorying elites, satirizing the social order — from George Carlin to Dick Gregory, Bill Hicks to Margaret Cho.
Larry Wilmore did just this on Saturday night. As the featured comedian for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, he used his enormous platform to stir thin