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In Living Color

In Living Color (1990)

TV-14
12h 30m

Overview

In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990, to May 19, 1994. Brothers Keenen and Damon Wayans created, wrote and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory Way Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television and was taped before a live studio audience at stage 7 at the Fox Television Center on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The title of the series was inspired by the NBC announcement of broadcasts being presented "in living color" during the 1950s and 1960s, prior to mainstream color television. It also refers to the fact that most of the show's cast were black, unlike other sketch comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live whose casts are usually mostly white.

Other members of the Wayans family—Kim, Shawn and Marlon—had regular roles, while brother Dwayne frequently appeared as an extra. The show also starred the previously unknown actor/comedians Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and David Alan Grier. Additionally, actress Rosie Perez, Dancing with the Stars judge and choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba and dancer Jennifer Lopez were members of the show's dance troupe The Fly Girls. The series won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series in 1990.

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Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Self - Various Characters (127 episodes)

Tommy Davidson

Tommy Davidson

Self - Various Characters (127 episodes)

David Alan Grier

David Alan Grier

Self - Various Characters (127 episodes)

T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh

T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh

Self - Various Characters (127 episodes)

TB

Terrance Brown

Self - Various Characters (127 episodes)

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Self - Various Characters (101 episodes)

Kim Wayans

Kim Wayans

Self - Various Characters (101 episodes)

Kelly Coffield Park

Kelly Coffield Park

Self - Various Characters (101 episodes)

Shawn Wayans

Shawn Wayans

Self - Various Characters (101 episodes)

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