JamesG
04-14-2010, 05:09 PM
"In Living Color" Turns 20: Happy Anniversary!
April 14, 2010 | By: Jason Newman
Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1990, "In Living Color", the brash, outspoken sketch comedy show created by Keenan Ivory Wayans, premiered and subsequently changed the rules of sketch comedy.
In its skewering of pop culture and satirizing of race-based issues, the mostly black cast combined trenchant lampooning (Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson) with original characters (Homey D. Clown, Fire Marshal Bill) to create a show that remains groundbreaking to this day.
Just as notable, the show became a launching pad for everyone from Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx to then-choreographer Rosie Perez and Jennifer Lopez (the latter earning her first high-profile job as one of the show's "Fly Girls").
http://insidetv.aol.com/2010/04/14/in-living-color-turns-20-happy-anniversary/
April 14, 2010 | By: Jason Newman
Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1990, "In Living Color", the brash, outspoken sketch comedy show created by Keenan Ivory Wayans, premiered and subsequently changed the rules of sketch comedy.
In its skewering of pop culture and satirizing of race-based issues, the mostly black cast combined trenchant lampooning (Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson) with original characters (Homey D. Clown, Fire Marshal Bill) to create a show that remains groundbreaking to this day.
Just as notable, the show became a launching pad for everyone from Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx to then-choreographer Rosie Perez and Jennifer Lopez (the latter earning her first high-profile job as one of the show's "Fly Girls").
http://insidetv.aol.com/2010/04/14/in-living-color-turns-20-happy-anniversary/