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The Nineties

♪ in living color ♪ [cheers and applause] - ladies and gentlemen, keenen ivory wayans. - "in living color" was the first show that was created by, written by, directed by, starring an african-american. all of those things in one. - this is more a celebration of culture and an exchange, you know? us sort of opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. yo, yo, yo, all you bad bargain hunters out there, welcome to... both: the homeboy shopping network. - a lot of what they did on "in living color" was trying to take the stereotypes or the misperceptions about what black men are and turn them upside down. - not only will you get, like, all the cable stations out there... - but you'll be able to talk directly to the astronauts. - it brought this smart, very controversial comedy that black folks had never seen before that centered around their life experiences.

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- now i'd like to talk about a film i've been anxiously awaiting to see, "great balls of fire." (audience laughing) - "in living color" was so breakthrough, so innovative, so many great characters and the tone of the writing was from a perspective we had not seen before. - when his mama gave birth to him, he ran off with the placenta. (audience laughing) - we were coming out of an era in television where it was all the white writers' perception of what blacks were. so keenan got paul mooney as head writer. it's a big, big difference. - who are you? - i am the minister louis farrakhan. (audience laughs) (triumphant music) - so jim carrey had been kicking around comedy in hollywood for years. keenan said, "i know how to use that guy." and he put him in and next thing you know... - a deadly combination. - i discovered jamie foxx from "in living color." - you know we drive up. boom! bust somebody head. and, ah!

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♪ you can do what you wanna do ♪ in living color - in the case of "in living color." i did pitch it to robert townsend. he didn't wanna do it. so we brought keenan into fox, and we pitched a very bare bones idea, just a black sketch comedy show. we gave him a pilot. - [both] welcome to the homeboy shopping network. - everything past the idea is keenan's thing. - sometimes those little fellas don't like to come out. - well hell, can you blame 'em? i wish i could move back. (audience laughing) - it was an immediate hit out of the box, huge. you know, the younger audience ate it up. they were able to sort of merge the suburban white crowd with the black crowd and they all just started watching that show religiously. - yeah, keenan ivory wayans and he had his family. we had never seen that before. he had all the wayanses, you had the fly girls and they would come out and it was so much hip hop and it was dancing. you had to be in front of the tv because you never know what sketch was gonna come out.

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it's absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think it's important that we don't forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that you've done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - it's a great time to be a black comedian right now, because when you think about our past and where we've come from. (audience clapping) the moms mabley, dick, gregory, redd foxx, they weren't getting the opportunities as black artists they're getting today. - give me your hand, rick. feel my heart. - oh, that's quite a beat there. (audience laughing) - but that has never stopped us from existing and thriving and telling our stories. - the best thing that we can do is use our platform to uplift other younger black artists

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but then being like, "damn, that's true." you know what i mean? - i didn't know he was taking me to the ghetto at first. i started looking out the window. i was like, "what the (beep)? gun store, gun store, liquor stor, gun store. where the (beep) are you taking me?" - three years after that, dave chappelle teamed up with comedy central, bam! dave chappelle show. - yes, they deserve to die and i hope they burn in hell! (audience laughing) - the chappelle show redefines sketch comedy. it brought "in living color" back to the fore, but it even took it further. - i always wanted to say this, for shizzle. (audience laughing) - it passed boundaries that you thought were, woo, we can't touch. a blind, black kkk member? - don't be afraid! i feel the light. (audience laughing) - [desus] chappelle was an amazing show. - he was like so on it with the commentary, but still hard funny, which which is hard to do, man, to toe that line. - mm-hmm. - what black man don't have some bloody gloves

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have been black. (eddie yelling) - just genius and hilarious. - yeah, i said it. (audience cheering) - the chappelle show redefined sketch comedy. - i'm rick james, bitch. (audience laughing) - "in living color" set up a platform for black comedians blowing up. - i don't think so. homie don't play that. (audience laughing) - arsenio hall was, "woo, woo, woo, woo, woo." it was groundbreaking. - [audience] woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. - you had a black man willing to fight the power. - nice being out of jail. (audience laughing) - laughter is healing, laughter purifies the air. actually i don't like to talk about the races, because i'm white. - and we, as black people, have been doing it forever. - i am, this is a freckle. (audience laughing) - all black comedians discuss race. - it's harder being gay than it is being black. i didn't have to come out black. (audience laughing) - we have to address our pain to make you laugh, and so that we could get through it. - "mom, i'm black." "oh, no, lord jesus!"

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look at the ratings. that's 60 million people. it's absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think it's important that we don't forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that you've done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - it's a great time to be a black comedian right now, because when you think about our past and where we've come from. (audience clapping) the moms mabley, dick, gregory, redd foxx, they weren't getting the opportunities as black artists they're getting today. - give me your hand, rick. feel my heart. - oh, that's quite a beat there. (audience laughing) - but that has never stopped us from existing and thriving and telling our stories.

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gun store, gun store, liquor stor, gun store. where the (beep) are you taking me?" - three years after that, dave chappelle teamed up with comedy central, bam! dave chappelle show. - yes, they deserve to die and i hope they burn in hell! (audience laughing) - the chappelle show redefines sketch comedy. it brought "in living color" back to the fore, but it even took it further. - i always wanted to say this, for shizzle. (audience laughing) - it passed boundaries that you thought were, woo, we can't touch. a blind, black kkk member? - don't be afraid! i feel the light. (audience laughing) - [desus] chappelle was an amazing show. - he was like so on it with the commentary, but still hard funny, which which is hard to do, man, to toe that line. - mm-hmm. - what black man don't have some bloody gloves on his property? nigga, i got one right here. that don't mean i did anything. (audience laughing) - he's willing to tell it like it is

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so we brought keenan into fox, and we pitched a very bare bones idea, just a black sketch comedy show. we gave him a pilot. - [both] welcome to the homeboy shopping network. - everything past the idea is keenan's thing. - sometimes those little fellas don't like to come out. - well hell, can you blame 'em? i wish i could move back. (audience laughing) - it was an immediate hit out of the box, huge. you know, the younger audience ate it up. they were able to sort of merge the suburban white crowd with the black crowd and they all just started watching that show religiously. - yeah, keenan ivory wayans and he had his family. we had never seen that before. he had all the wayanses, you had the fly girls and they would come out and it was so much hip hop and it was dancing. you had to be in front of the tv because you never know what sketch was gonna come out. - now i'd like to talk about a film i've been anxiously awaiting to see, "great balls of fire." (audience laughing) - "in living color" was so breakthrough, so innovative,

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so many great characters and the tone of the writing was from a perspective we had not seen before. - when his mama gave birth to him, he ran off with the placenta. (audience laughing) - we were coming out of an era in television where it was all the white writers' perception of what blacks were. so keenan got paul mooney as head writer. it's a big, big difference. - who are you? - i am the minister louis farrakhan. (audience laughs) (triumphant music) - so jim carrey had been kicking around comedy in hollywood for years. keenan said, "i know how to use that guy." and he put him in and next thing you know... - a deadly combination. - i discovered jamie foxx from "in living color." - you know we drive up. boom! bust somebody head. and, ah! (audience laughs) - you know, i was like, "who is this guy that can do so much?" he was funny. he really could get into a character

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