In Living Color

In Living Color was an American sketch comedy television series which ran on the Fox Television Network from 1989 to 1994. Executive producer Keenen Ivory Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the program.

Popular recurring sketches

• Homey D. Clown (Damon Wayans) - A convict who works as a clown for his parole agreement, but violently lashes out at any attempt to make him perform the standard antics of the role - "I don't think so...Homie don't play that!"
• The Buttmans - A family modeled after The Cosby Show characters, only they have buttocks on their foreheads
• Fire Marshall Bill (Jim Carrey) - A Fire Marshall with a manic grin whose safety advisories usually cause the very disaster he was warning against.
• Men on Film (Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier)- In this parody of Siskel & Ebert, a pair of extremely effeminate gay men review films completely based on their potential for homoerotic content. - "Hated It!", "Three snaps in Z formation, the Zorro snap."
• Wanda - Jamie Foxx portrays the ugliest woman in the world... so ugly, in fact, that no one wanted to be in the same room as she.
• Hey Mon! - Damon Wayans heads a family of hard-working West-Indians, each with multiple careers. With the "Lazy Coconut" son working with no less than 8 different jobs, they find nothing more apalling that finding someone with two or less jobs, including toddlers.
• Homeboy Shopping Network - two streetwise pitchmen (Damon and Keenan Ivory Wayans) use a QVC-style approach to sell stolen goods.
• The Brothers Brothers (Damon and Keenen Ivory Wayans) - two brothers named Tom who sing like the Smothers Brothers (who actually lend their uncredited singing voices) and are often confused for being black.
• Funky Finger Productions (also called "B.S. Brothers") - two men (David Alan Grier and Tommy Davidson) with a knack of being at the right place for promotion, but with little promotional experience. Their pitches are punctuated with the occasional "BAM!" that later became the trademark of TV chef Emeril Lagasse.
• "The Dirty Dozens" - Stu Dunfy (Nick Bakay) hosts a game show that is a cross between Jeopardy and Concentration in which contestants are involved in a battle of insults.
• Handiman - Damon Wayans portrays a handicapped superhero.
• Vera de Milo - Jim Carrey portrays a steroids-using, flat-chested female bodybuilder whose trademark laugh sounds horselike.
• Grace Jones parody - Kim Wayans portrays a parody of the actress as an extremely physical enthusiast of any activity whether it be fighting an alligator for her dinner or pro wrestling while regularly asking "Do you think I'm sexy?"