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Keenan Ivory Wayans' television show stars several family members and features short, humorous skits, rap music, and dancing. This FOX comedy also has several stock characters and scenarios which recur in various episodes (e.g. Fire Marshal Bill, etc.).
Written by
Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
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Trivia
Damon Wayans's character Homey the Clown was based on writer
Paul Mooney. Mooney is a comedian known for his angry rants and frequently uses the word "homey".
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Quotes
[
repeated line]
Fire Marshall Bill:
Lemme show you somethin'.
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Alternate Versions
In the DVD releases, most of the music video parodies are removed due to music licensing issues.
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Soundtracks
That's the Way You're Living When You're Living In Living Color
(Theme Song)
by
Heavy D and The Boyz
(seasons 3 and 4)
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This was the perfect Sunday evening show from 1990-1994. It was nice to end a weekend on a totally hilarious show. Although, this show was based on African American comedy, it really tried hard to appeal to everybody. And people who deserved to be made fun of were made fun of.
Favorite Skits:
Jim Carrey as Captain Hazelwood (Exxon Valdez): Everything that Jim Carrey touched turned into a disaster. The coffee maker spitted out coffee everywhere. His wife packed him a quart of whiskey in his lunch box.
Keenan Ivory Wayans as Richard Pryor: It showed Richard Pryor getting scared by eating a box of cereal late at night. You really have to be familiar with Richard Pryor to get the joke, but I thought it was real funny.
Lassie 1990: Lassie as a pit bull brings in a severed arm and Kelly Coffield and Jim Carrey play naive mother and son. They were so naive it was funny.
Keenan Ivory Wayans as Bill Cosby: Bill Cosby was selling condemns to prevent "stupid" people from producing more "stupid" people. It was a parallel to Bill Cosby's Jello Pudding Pops. The Cosby skit was done very well, with all of Bill Cosby's famous facial expressions.
Homie the Clown: All were good, but I especially like the Christmas one.
The show sputtered towards the end, when some of the main characters left and the jokes got old, but for the first 2 years it was awesome.