A year and a half after premiering as the Colbert Report to a post-Jon Stewart Daily Show, Larry Wilmore's late night show has been axed. "Unfortunately, it hasn't connected with our audience in ways that we need it to," Comedy Central President Kent Alterman told The Hollywood Reporter this morning.

"Sadly, we’ve been hoping against hope that it would start to resonate... and we just weren’t seeing evidence of it. As much as we like Larry and the uniqueness of the show and the voices that are on the show—not just in terms of ratings—it hasn't resonated in terms of our fans engaging with the show with consuming or sharing content or having a dialogue about it on social platforms."

Wilmore's response was characteristically candid and wry: "I'm really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity," he told THR. "But I'm also saddened and surprised we won't be covering this crazy election or 'The Unblackening' as we've coined it. And keeping it 100, I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well."

The last new episode will air Thursday. It's too bad, since Nightly is a lot funnier and more challenging than the Trevor Noah Daily, to which Alterman said he remains "fiercely committed."