"The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" will be no more after Thursday.

Comedy Central announced Monday it is canceling the program that replaced “The Colbert Report” just 19 months ago.

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“We hold Larry in the highest esteem, personally and professionally. He brought a strong voice and point of view to the late-night landscape,” Comedy Central President Kent Alterman told Variety. “Unfortunately it hasn’t resonated with our audience.”

Alterman added it was a "business decision" to cancel the program.

“We’ve been monitoring it closely for a year and a half now and we haven’t seen the signs we need in ratings or in consumption on digital platforms. We’ve been been hoping it would grow,” Alterman also said.

Despite an unpredictable and wild election season providing plenty of great comedic material to work with, Wilmore had lost more than half the audience he inherited from Colbert, who moved to CBS to take over for the retired David Letterman on "The Late Show."

Colbert and Wilmore are both former correspondents from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Wilmore, 54, hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April to mostly critical reviews.

The short-term replacement for Wilmore will be moving Chris Hardwick's pop culture quiz show "@Midnight" to the 11:30 p.m. time slot that follows “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

Noah has also struggled with ratings since taking over for the immensely popular Stewart in August of 2015, but has seen positive signs as of late.

According to Nielsen, this year's second quarter saw Noah's "Daily Show" beaten only by NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" in the 18-to-34 demographic that is important to advertisers, registering 278,000 viewers. That number is higher than Colbert's “Late Show” and ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“I’m really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity,” Wilmore wrote in a statement. “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.”