Larry Wilmore Crashes Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' to Talk 'Nightly Show' Cancellation

He’s still got it!

Two weeks after Larry Wilmore made his final sign-off on The Nightly Show, the comedian paid a visit to his fellow Daily Show alum Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show on Thursday night.

Going one step farther than just appearing on Colbert’s couch, Wilmore crashed the main stage and began to deliver a monologue about the day’s events – only to be stopped by Colbert.

With the same wry sense of humor that led him to tell Nightly Show viewers the show must have been canceled because “we solved racism,” Wilmore asked Colbert when his jokes were cut short: “It’s because I’m black isn’t it?”

After a comically pregnant pause, Colbert replied, “A little bit.”

Later in the show, Wilmore, 54, discussed what he had hoped for his time headlining the Comedy Central show and admitted to Colbert, 52: “I am very disappointed about it. I thought we’d be on through the election.”

Of The Nightly Show‘s abrupt end, he quipped, “It’s almost like you’re in a relationship but you were the that didn’t know it was over.”

“I will say this,” he added, “I am very upset that they did cancel a brother’s show when all the best worst racial stuff started happening,” including a recent war of words between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton over which is the bigger “bigot” and NFL star Colin Kaepernick recent refusal to stand for the national anthem in protest of ongoing racial strife in the U.S.

Despite his jokes about the “Unblackening of the White House,” Wilmore took a moment to make a serious point about the legacy of outgoing President Barack Obama.

“People always ask me what I think will be the best thing to come out of this presidency, and I think it’s the example of Obama being the president more than any policy he might have.”

He added, “This is another thing I told the president at the White House Correspondents Dinner: When I was a kid, you couldn’t even think of a black man being a quarterback – that’s the truth. A black man couldn’t even lead a football team. And now, to see him leading the free world, you know, words couldn’t even express it.”

Of Clinton’s presidential bid, he continued, “And now that may happen with a woman in the White House – that it won’t be an issue that a woman can lead the country. It won’t be a question anymore.”

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights (11:35 p.m. ET) on CBS.