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Damon Kyle Wayans (pronounced "WAYNES) (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. He is one of the Wayans brothers. is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical fourth wall. ...
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The Wayans Brothers are a group of American comedians who are brothers. ...
Biography
Early life Wayans was born in New York to Elvira, a homemaking mother, and Howell Wayans, a supermarket manager. He has four sisters, Vonnie, Nadia, Kim, Deidre, and five brothers, actors Marlon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Dwayne Wayans. He was raised in his father's Jehovah's Witness religion and has described his upbringing as "strict".[1] He had a clubbed foot as a child. This attribute would also be given to his character in My Wife & Kids and his character on the cartoon series "Waynehead". Wayans attended Murry Bergtraum High School.[2] This article is about the state. ...
Kim Wayans (born October 16, 1961, New York City) is an African-American actress and a member of the Wayans family. ...
Marlon Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, producer, comedian, writer, and director of movies, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in Im Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988. ...
Keenen Ivory Wayans (born June 8, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor, comedian, director and writer. ...
Shawn Wayans (born January 19, 1971 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and comedian who starred in In Living Color and The Wayans Bros. ...
Dwayne Wayans (born July 20, 1956 in New York City, New York) is a writer, music composer and sibling of Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans, and Marlon Wayans. ...
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Career Earliest film appearance was a brief cameo as an effeminate hotel employee in the 1984 Eddie Murphy film Beverly Hills Cop. He was briefly on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer, before getting fired for playing his character as a flamboyant gay cop instead of a straight cop. In the SNL book "Live From New York", it was stated that Wayans did this largely due to growing frustrations that his sketches were not being considered for the show and increasing stress. He also appeared in the syndicated TV Series Solid Gold during the 1980s as a stand-up comedian. After that, he went on to do the TV-show In Living Color from 1990 to 1992, part of a team that was nominated for Emmy Awards all three years. Edward Eddie Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. ...
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ...
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Solid Gold was an American syndicated television series which ran from 1980 to 1988. ...
Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical fourth wall. ...
In Living Color is a sketch comedy television series which ran on the FOX Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. ...
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After that, he starred in films such as The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne and The Great White Hype, he also wrote and starred in the film Blankman. In 1996, he produced Waynehead, a cartoon for the WB, loosely based on his own childhood growing up in a large family, starring a poor boy with a clubfoot. It only lasted a season due to poor ratings. From 1997 to 1998, he was the executive producer of 413 Hope St., a short-lived drama on the FOX network starring Richard Roundtree and Jesse L. Martin. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Major Payne was a 1995 film, starring Damon Wayans. ...
The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, and Cheech Marin. ...
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Waynehead was a 1996 Saturday morning cartoon produced by American actor Damon Wayans. ...
Talipes equinovarus, otherwise known as clubfoot, is a congenital disorder where the foot is turned inward (inversion) and in plantar flexion. ...
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The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ...
Richard Roundtree Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New Rochelle, New York) is an African American actor and hero famous for portraying John Shaft in the film Shaft (1971) and in its two sequels: Shafts Big Score in 1972, and Shaft in Africa in 1973. ...
Jesse Lamont Martin (born Jesse Lamont Watkins, January 18, 1969) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, best known for his roles as Tom Collins in Rent and as Detective Ed Green in the NBC series Law & Order. ...
In 1998, he starred in a short-lived comedy titled Damon, in which he played a Chicago detective. It aired on FOX. In 1999, his New York Times bestselling book Bootleg with co' author David Asbery was published; it is a humorous compilation of his observations about family, children, marriage, and politics. From 2001 until 2005, Wayans starred in the ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids. Through My Wife and Kids Damon Wayans became a household name throughout the US. The show was also popular in countries such as UK, South Africa, India, Lebanon, Brazil, Italy and Australia. His character, Michael Kyle, is a father of three and the show is famous for his sarcastic form of comedy.[3] In 2005 Damon Wayans was in a celebrity ad campaign for Hanes. The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ...
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In 2006, he began starring in The Underground, a sketch comedy series on Showtime. His son, Damon, Jr. also stars on the show. The Underground is a sketch comedy series produced by and starring Damon Wayans. ...
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Wayans appears in Janet Jackson's video "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and was considered for the role of The Riddler in Batman Forever. He hosted the 2006 BET Awards which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on June 27, 2006. Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, activist, and pop icon. ...
The Best Things in Life Are Free was a 1992 hit song for American R&B legends Janet Jackson and the late Luther Vandross. ...
Detective Comics #140 (October 1948), the first appearance of The Riddler. ...
Batman Forever is a 1995 superhero film. ...
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, shooting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. ...
An early postcard view of the Shrine The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. ...
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Personal life Wayans married Lisa Thorner. They divorced in 2000. He is the father of Damon Wayans, Jr., Michael Wayans, Cara Mia Wayans, and Kyla Wayans. He is also the uncle of Damien Dante Wayans and of Craig Wayans. Damon Wayans, Jr. ...
Michael Richard Wayans (Born March 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ...
Cara Mia Dianne Wayans (Born on April 18, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ...
Damien Dante Wayans is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. ...
Craig Wayans is an American Screenwriter, Director, and producer. ...
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Saturday Night Live
Recurring characters - Keith, one of the Stand-Up Comedians (because of his termination and cast changes after Season 11, he was replaced with host Tom Hanks' stand-up character, Paul)
- Ned Jones, one half of criminal pitchmen partners The Jones Brothers (his brother, Fed, was played by Anthony Michael Hall)
Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, producer and director who achieved stardom in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s. ...
Celebrity impersonations Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933), is the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). ...
Kenneth Babyface Edmonds (born April 10, 1958 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an R&B and pop singer, songwriter, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entreprenuer. ...
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is an African-American singer, songwriter, and pianist, who began performing in the 1940s and was a key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to rock and roll in the mid-1950s. ...
In Living Color
Characters - Anton Jackson, a gross, drunken homeless man who hosts his own home-repair show and pops up in places where he shouldn't be (It should be noted that his Anton Jackson character sounds like his character, Ned Jones, from the SNL recurring sketch, The Jones Brothers).
- Blaine Edwards, one of the flamboyantly gay film critics in the Men On... series (this character and Anton Jackson were the only In Living Color recurring characters Wayans played when he hosted Saturday Night Live on an episode from the 1994-1995 season)
- Handi Man, a mentally and physically disabled superhero
- Head Detective, a police detective who was rebuilt to look like Mr. Potato Head after an accident
- Homey D. Clown, an ex-con who performs as a kids' party clown
- Les (Les and Wes)
- Oswald Bates
- The Wiz
- Tom Brothers (The Brothers Brothers)
- Reverend Ed Cash (partnered with Dr. Reverend Carl Pethos, played by Jim Carrey. Both were con artist preachers)
- Benson Payne in the 1995 movie Major Payne
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Herman Simpson, more commonly known as Homey the Clown, (aka Homey D. Clown) is a character from the popular 1990s sketch comedy series In Living Color. ...
James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American A-list film actor and comedian. ...
Major Payne was a 1995 film, starring Damon Wayans. ...
Impressions Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933), is the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). ...
Redd Foxx (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), born John Elroy Sanford,[1] was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son. ...
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. ...
Milli Vanilli (milli is a word meaning national in Turkish, picked up by the artists while visiting Turkey on one of its national days) was a duo, Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, formed in Germany in the mid-1980s. ...
Filmography Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ...
This article is about the American television series. ...
Hollywood Shuffle (1987) is a film depicting the stereotyping of African Americans in film and television. ...
Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. ...
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC (from September 24, 1987 until July 9, 1993). ...
Colors is a 1988 film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. ...
Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. ...
Punchline is a 1988 film starring Tom Hanks and Sally Field. ...
Im Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 comedy feature film written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans. ...
Look Whos Talking Too is the 1990 sequel to the commercially successful movie Look Whos Talking (1989). ...
In Living Color is a sketch comedy television series which ran on the FOX Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. ...
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Mo Money is a 1992 comedy film, starring Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Stacey Dash, and directed by Peter MacDonald. ...
Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy directed by John McTiernan. ...
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Major Payne was a 1995 film, starring Damon Wayans. ...
Celtic Pride (1996) is a comedy directed by Tom DeCerchio. ...
The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, and Cheech Marin. ...
Bulletproof is a 1996 American movie directed by Ernest Dickerson and starring Adam Sandler, Damon Wayans, James Caan and Jeep Swenson. ...
Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the shows success. ...
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Marci X is a 2003 film, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Paul Rudnick. ...
Farce of the Penguins is a 2007 direct-to-DVD parody film of the 2005 film March of the Penguins. ...
The Underground is a sketch comedy series produced by and starring Damon Wayans. ...
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