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Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas

Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas

HBO adds to its staple of late-night talk/comedy series with this entry starring Wyatt Cenac. The comic/writer explores a wide range of social and cultural issues facing Americans, using satire to tackle tough topics and investigate real-world solutions. Each episode features documentary-style field reports as its focal point. The segments allow Cenac to travel to suburban, downtown and rural parts of the country, where he talks with locals about systematic problems and offers comedic solutions to everyday inconveniences. In addition, the host engages an in-studio audience with commentary on current events. Cenac is a former writer and correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," where he earned three Emmy Awards.
2 seasonsDocumentary, ComedyTV-MAAdult Situations, Adult Language
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Season 110 of 10 Episodes

  • Wyatt explores space, alternative fuel and Minnesota policing.

  • Wyatt explores National Rifle Association propaganda at the movies, ponders dogs eating chicken bones, and travels to Birmingham, Ala., to learn about police apologies.

  • Wyatt tries to make coal miners go solar, move millennials into battleships and understand community policing.

  • Wyatt examines the various forms of sanctuary for undocumented laborers, suggests a better way for cities to handle rain, and looks at how community efforts in the skid row area of Los Angeles aim to decrease police presence in the area.

  • Wyatt Cenac discusses banking deserts, explores the unintended consequences of combating mosquitos, and examines the intersection of America's mental health crisis and policing.

  • Wyatt Cenac discusses the threat of robots taking people's jobs, proposes an alternative to environmentally harmful beauty products, and learns about tools to arm police that are less lethal than guns.

  • America's student loan crisis; streamlining sidewalk traffic; the unsettling intersection of police and sexual misconduct.

  • Wyatt Cenac explores why phones keep breaking down, the origins of a common stationery item, and how some city police departments are moving beyond the war on drugs.

  • Wyatt Cenac notes the historical exclusion of women in medical research, explores man-made reefs, and examines the process of restorative justice.

  • Wyatt considers the lack of funding for America's teachers; he finds a new angle on the circle of life; concluding the season-long examination of policing with one community's unique approach.
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas

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HBO adds to its staple of late-night talk/comedy series with this entry starring Wyatt Cenac. The comic/writer explores a wide range of social and cultural issues facing Americans, using satire to tackle tough topics and investigate real-world solutions. Each episode features documentary-style field reports as its focal point. The segments allow Cenac to travel to suburban, downtown and rural parts of the country, where he talks with locals about systematic problems and offers comedic solutions to everyday inconveniences. In addition, the host engages an in-studio audience with commentary on current events. Cenac is a former writer and correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," where he earned three Emmy Awards.

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