Daily Show takes 'Racist Timeout' for Trayvon Martin coverage

Wednesday night's edition of "The Daily Show" featured a discussion in which correspondent Larry Wilmore produced a home kitchen timer and declared a "Racist Timeout."

"For the next five minutes," he announced, "No one is a racist."

Accusations of racism and reaction to those charges have caused the debate over the Trayvon Martin case to rapidly overheat. Wilmore's declaration of a charges-of-racism free zone was a legitimate -- but still funny -- means of striking at some kind of greater truth in the argument.

The five minutes passed surprisingly quickly, leaving host Jon Stewart to quip, "But I was going to ask about corn-rows!"

"Not gangsta," replied Wilmore.

Watch the clip, embedded via Comedy Central, below: