Opening June 14’s episode of The Nightly Show with a new segment, Wilmore dedicated the first few minutes of airtime to a series of stories missed while the show was on hiatus. Given the working titles “Last week tonight,” “I just want to talk about some stuff that happened last week” and “Mandatory graphics meeting tonight,” Wilmore quickly covered news concerning Lebron James and the incomplete sentence of Brock Turner, comparing the sympathy for Turner to Bill Cosby. Criticizing the justice system, Wilmore stressed the importance of assuring that rapists take full responsibility for their actions.
Moving on to another news segment, Wilmore discussed the recent development of parents stealing girl scouts cookies. Flabbergasted, Wilmore asked if there was, “nothing sacred left.” While the media claimed that the trend was putting girl scouts in “Cookie debt,” Wilmore was unable to resist cracking a joke or two about the name. As a precautionary method, girl scouts were given a form to fill out should a parent fail to pay for their cookies, which authority figures could look into.
From here, the segment opened into a skit, featuring Nightly Show contributors Mike Yard and Holly Walker posing as cookie debt collectors, Joey and Crystal. Presented as typical thug types, the two remained aggressively adamant about collecting debt money, despite Wilmore’s insistence that the whole situation was kind of ridiculous. Eventually, Wilmore decided that he would not be able to reason with the two, opting to order cookies instead. Claiming not to be in sales, the two turned him down.
The night’s panel featured Nightly Show contributors Rory Albanese, Franchesca Ramsey and special guest, Malcolm Gladwell. In wake of the recent anniversary of the O.J. Simpson case, conversations centered on American attitudes towards domestic violence. Main points covered were victim blaming, the American judicial system, racial components and growing understanding of domestic violence cases. While the panelists eventually came to the agreement that our understanding of domestic violence had increased, they also concluded that we still have a long way to go.