In Living Color, which ran from 1990-94, is mostly interesting these days because of who came from it. If you don't know, the list is pretty amazing: Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx (joined season 3), Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, David Alan Grier (oh, if you haven't seen it, check out Chocolate News), Tommy Davidson. And that's just the cast - the "Fly Girls" dancers were choreographed by Rosie Perez the first three seasons, and featured Carrie Ann Inaba and Jennifer Lopez. Yeah, that Jennifer Lopez. (Hey, Christmas spirit -- here's a clip from J.Lo's first day as a fly girl.)
Not to say the show wasn't funny - it was very funny, in an over the top kind of way, for the first three seasons, before Keenan Ivory Wayans left and it fell apart. It's just, looking back, a lot of the gags were very of their time - Arsenio Hall and Mike Tyson jokes, for example.
But one character who never gets old is Damon Wayans' serially abusive Homey The Clown, biding his time in a prison release program by entertaining the youths of America. Watch for yourselves. And then try to get a reservation at Chez Whitey.
Click through for a video retrospective, including a very heartwarming Christmas appearance. Awwwww....
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