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[Bgamer90]

Wait...weren't there rumblings a couple years ago about a new In Living Color getting put on TV? What ever happened to that?

They shot a pilot in 2012 but it wasn't good according to FOX heads and Keenen Ivory Wayans.

Some of the cast members who were going to be on the reboot are now on the TruTV show Friends of the People.

 

[smurfx]

when i was a kid i basically only watched fox so yeah i enjoyed in living color a lot.

 

[mm04]

Came out during the best time of my youth. Will always be associated with it. Great show.

 

[zeioIIDX]

They shot a pilot in 2012 but it wasn't good according to FOX heads and Keenan Ivory Wayans.

Some of the cast members who were going to be on the reboot are now on the TruTV show Friends of the People.

Oh wow, thanks a lot for that info!

 

[TAJ]

Best skits...

Star Trek: The Wrath of Farrakhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52o1d7XPni0

Veracosa: Mistress of Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw71jwrSj3I

Not quite as good, but endlessly quoted by my family...

The Family Dozens (The Jenkins family vs. inbred hillbillies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8cgxNRaIo

 

[FeenixRising]

It's unthinkable they got away with broadcasting their Super Bowl half-time edition on live television back in the day:

Men on Football

When I finally figured out that line about Richard Gere, holy shit! lmao!!

 

[TAJ]

I got that one right away. I don't think that ever aired a second time.

 

[uncredited male]

It's unthinkable they got away with broadcasting their Super Bowl half-time edition on live television back in the day:

Men on Football

They kind of didn't get away with it though. FOX came down on them hard after that and censored them aggressively.

It got worse when the censored drunk/date rape skit was "accidentally" aired. This all lead to the Wayans starting to leave the show. Although Damon was doing the movies as well.

 

[BocoDragon]

Fox didn't come to Canada until the mid/late-90s so I think I basically missed out on this show in its prime. I've seen a few re-runs and YouTube clips since then.

"James" Carrey lol. Right up there with "Larry" Fishburne.

 

[Strike]

One of the best sketch comedy shows ever. Watching the reruns now as an adult, I still can't believe they got away with as much as they did.

 

[Sobriquet]

That theme song (the original) is godly and the best among the sketch comedy shows.

I seem to remember Wayans wanting to use Living Colour's song "Living Colour" as the theme but they wouldn't let him.

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

I remember watching this pretty often with the family, despite being pretty young. 'Homie don't play that' was oft heard on the playgrounds, so I obviously wasn't the only one.

 

[>:)]

Keenen's Tyson is simply the greatest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2dKRgp_Sg

 

[Dead]

Amazing show. One of the GOAT

One of my favorites: Kim Wayans doing a parody of Crystal Waters

 

[wenis]

Season One Episodes (1990)

Season Two Episodes (1990-1991)

Season Three Episodes (1991-1992)

Season Four Episodes (1992-1993)

Season Five Episodes (1993-1994)

Fuuuuuuuhhhh. I know what im doing for the rest of the week now.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

God damn I loved In Living Color. Carrey was GOAT on that show. My Left Footy of Fury is amazing.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Carrie Ann Inaba

 

[Soodanim]

Let me show you something

That was not a good first clip of the show for me to see. I didn't even nearly smile, let alone laugh.

Edit: It's not my first, I've seen Jim's parody songs. Was Imposter from ILC? I used to watch that a lot.

 

[Rastafarian42]

Other than Chappelle show this was my favorite sketch comedy show.

 

[Cipherr]

Remember when Homey The Clown was a thing, "homey don't play dat!"

School was crazy during those years. Between B-B Butcher, Punch Buggy and "Homie don't play dat! (followed by a slap on the head)" we were constantly wailing on one another just about all day; before, during AND after school.

 

[foxuzamaki]

My Direct TV info screen had this to say about it:

"Black People Show"

lmao

 

[waypoetic]

I wouldn't call 25 years "old as fuck" though.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I wouldn't call 25 years "old as fuck" though.

Quarter century

 

[sixteen-bit]

My Direct TV info screen had this to say about it:

"Black People Show"

wtf?

 

[IAmRandom31]

show gave birth to the legend!

still laugh at that show

 

[DrFunk]

Praise the lord

Hallelujah

Men on Film

 

[Slayven]

GOAT

My favorites

https://youtu.be/1NtmEY24oWI?t=42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5pbHxvChU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izpa9D7c77U

 

[AxelFoley]

wtf?

LOL, there was actually a skit called "The Black People Show".

 

[Edwardo]

I used to love watching it back in the day. My cousin used to record all of the episodes and we'd watch them any chance we got. I wonder if he still has them.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Takes me back.


Homie don't play that, maybe I will later tho.

 

[JLynn]

Yall taking me back!

Another cool thing about this show was that one of the writers of the show was Larry Wilmore who became a cast member in the final season (He played black Archie Bunker). Of course we now know him as the host of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

 

[Chairhome]

My Direct TV info screen had this to say about it:

"Black People Show"

That's the name of one of the skits.

I can't believe my parents used to let me watch this show. It shaped my sense of humor for sure, though.

 

[LakeEarth]

show gave birth to the legend!

still laugh at that show

I didn't realize until it was pointed out to me that Jim Carrey is doing that face because Firemarshall Bill is supposed to have burnt off his eyelids and lips.

 

[inm8num2]

Woodchuck to Gray Squirrel...

This show was one of the absolute best. I think I preferred it to SNL during the early 90s, which was godly in its own way.

 

[Hari Seldon]

I tried to teach my 3 year old to say Homey Don't Play That whenever she doesn't want to do something but it didn't stick haha.

Best sketch show of all time when it was in its prime. Fox was absolutely obliterating everyone else back in 1990.

 

[spindashing]

Season One Episodes (1990)

Season Two Episodes (1990-1991)

Season Three Episodes (1991-1992)

Season Four Episodes (1992-1993)

Season Five Episodes (1993-1994)

Fuck! My free time is dwindling as it is. :lol

 

[Hari Seldon]

School was crazy during those years. Between B-B Butcher, Punch Buggy and "Homie don't play dat! (followed by a slap on the head)" we were constantly wailing on one another just about all day; before, during AND after school.

Yeah plus back in that era our parents gave less than zero fucks what we watched on TV haha. This and Married with Children were prime time shows that middle schoolers were watching haha.

 

[Saganator]

I love In Living Color. Been watching reruns of it on Nuvo lately (awesome Spanish channel, most shows are in english).

 

[BotoxAgent]

Hated it!

 

[Eighty Deuce]

Married with children, the Simpsons and in living color made my childhood amazing.

 

[Just take it with you.]

Even to this day, some of my family will refer to anyone with multiple jobs or who works too much as a "Hey Mon."

 

[dorikyasu]

Carrie Ann Inaba

Holy crap! I completely forgot she used to be one of the Fly Girls! I remembered JLo, but Carrie Ann...

 

[Bgamer90]

Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey as every TV evangelist ever

 

[entremet]

Early FOX was such an experimental network.

Married with children, the Simpsons and in living color made my childhood amazing.

Yep.

Such great memories.

 

[commedieu]

first time I heard "BITCH" on normal tv.

And my parents could do NOTHING!

Muhauhauwhwuahaa

 

[Parallax]

Season One Episodes (1990)

Season Two Episodes (1990-1991)

Season Three Episodes (1991-1992)

Season Four Episodes (1992-1993)

Season Five Episodes (1993-1994)

i could have sworn that when marion berry is getting hauled off in the second sketch of the first season he yells out "that bitch set me up"

 

[jgwhiteus]

Besides its humor, In Living Color was also ahead of its time - one of the first comedy sketch shows I can remember that had an Asian-American cast member (Steve Park), the other being MadTV (with Bobby Lee) - even though SNL has been running for over forty years, I think the only Asian-heritage cast members they've had are Fred Armisen, who's part Japanese, and Rob Schneider(!), who's part Filipino.

Fun fact: Steve Park eventually ended up marrying castmate Kelly Coffield, and they had kids and moved to Brooklyn:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/realestate/07habi.html

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Love that James Carrey guy!

 

[geomon]

For the first 3 years, this show was GOAT.

 

[Borgnine]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/realestate/07habi.html

Holy shit, never made the connection that was Steve Park as Mike Yanagita. How the heck are ya?