Once we start taking offensive yet instructive language such as nigger out of literature, as is the case with Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” what’s next? Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore peers unflinchingly into a grim future of censored classics in this racially charged romp from Tuesday’s “Daily Show.” –KA

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