![]() ![]() Clown and the aforementioned Men On Film set the stage for other rebellious favorites like Fire Marshall Bill, Frenchie, Funky Finger Productions, the Snackin’ Shack, Velma Mulholland, and Calhoun Tubbs. Vaunted sketches and characters like Homey D. Many of his same characters that didn’t make it out of SNL’s writer’s room popped up later on his big brother’s bold experiment. Maybe it was because Damon Wayans had been fired from the long-running series in 1986. It was just what Keenen planned when he first assembled the classic lineup of himself, brother and sister Damon and Kim, Grier, Tommy Davidson, Jim Carrey, T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Kim Coles, and Kelly Coffield.įrom ’90 to ’94, the Emmy-winning show took dead aim at the more established, mostly White Saturday Night Live. In Living Color, with its mostly Black cast, was already the coolest, boldest, funniest show on television. ![]() But by the time the controversy dissipated, the special live episode had drawn an astounding 25 million viewers away from Super Bowl XXVI’s 79.6 million viewers. Advertisers grumbled and threatened to pull money. ![]() Cast members Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier’s “Men on Football” sketch - which featured ridiculously camp, effeminate culture critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather - let off a barrage of innuendos, joked about actor Richard Gere’s urban-legend dealings with a gerbil, and speculated about Olympic track great Carl Lewis’s sexuality. Indeed, Fox’s idea to present TV’s most dangerous sketch comedy series as savvy counter-programming opposite America’s most watched sporting event woke up sleepy football fans with a punch to the face. But after our special, the next year, they hired Michael Jackson.” That was the time during the game when everybody went to pee. “Before we did our halftime special, it was just marching bands. “We decided to do a live episode during halftime of the Super Bowl in 1992,” recalled the show’s creator and host Keenen Ivory Wayans in a 2019 Hollywood Reporter oral history of the landmark series. On January 26,1992, In Living Color changed television. ![]()
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