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    Keenen Ivory Wayans on how In Living Color was different from anything else on television before

    01:28
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    Kevin Bright on his involvement in the casting of In Living Color

    03:06
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    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the "Men on Football" sketch on In Living Color; parodying Carl Lewis; and the negative response to it

    04:53
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    Larry Wilmore on how he came to write for In Living Color, and on what he learned as a writer on the show

    02:21
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    Keenen Ivory Wayans on how In Living Color was inspired by Saturday Night Live; on wanting to create his own version for people who hadn't gotten a shot

    00:36
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    Larry Wimore on the legacy of In Living Color

    02:01

    Kevin Bright

    Kevin Bright on his work as supervising producer on the pilot of In Living Color

    03:49

    Kevin Bright on his involvement in the casting of In Living Color

    03:06

    Kevin Bright on winning an Emmy for his work on the pilot of In Living Color and not being asked back to work on the show after the pilot

    02:34

    Michael Fuchs

    Michael Fuchs on various series HBO had a hand in developing or eventually turned down

    03:11

    Leonard Goldberg

    Leonard Goldberg on the development of In Living Color

    00:48

    Monica Horan

    Monica Horan on working on the TV show In Living Color

    01:27

    Michael Patrick King

    Michael Patrick King on writing spec scripts for In Living Color

    28:40

    William Klages

    William Klages on working on In Living Color

    00:10

    Craig Mazin

    Craig Mazin on going to the Laugh Factory to see Jamie Foxx the night he was cast on In Living Color during his internship with the Television Academy Foundation 

    00:37

    Don Mischer

    Don Mischer on how In Living Color stole Super Bowl viewers

    01:48

    Hector Ramirez

    Hector Ramirez on being a camera operator on In Living Color

    03:06

    Nina Shaw

    Nina Shaw on representing Jamie Foxx for about twenty years

    00:13

    Bob Vila

    Bob Vila on parodies of This Old House on Saturday Night Live and In Living Color

    00:26

    Keenen Ivory Wayans

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the genesis of In Living Color, which premiered on FOX in 1990

    02:38

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the network's reluctance about his show In Living Color; the network notes and Wayans' insistence not to change anything

    04:51

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on In Living Color sketches "Wrath of Farrakhan","Homeboys Shopping Network", "Men on Film" and "two snaps up"

    03:44

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on how In Living Color was different from anything else on television before

    01:28

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on casting In Living Color and how the auditions ran

    01:55

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the cast of In Living Color: Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Kelly Coffield

    24:29

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on how the Fly Girls came to be on In Living Color; on some of the Fly Girls (Jennifer Lopez, Rosie Perez)

    02:01

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the writers' room on In Living Color; on dealing with topical issues and ethnic, racial, and sexist issues on the show

    22:39

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on how he handled hot-button issues on In Living Color with his writing staff; on writing about the riots between the Black and Jewish communities in Brooklyn in a takeoff on "West Side Story"

    21:04

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on dealing with sensitive and political issues on In Living Color: "you gotta be funny"; on offending Oprah Winfrey

    03:07

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on drawing stories from real life for In Living Color; on using improvisation

    15:11

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on improv on In Living Color; on the sketch "Driving Miss Daisy"; every second take would be improvised and that was usually the take selected for the show

    01:11

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on a typical production week on In Living Color

    00:36

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on where the title for In Living Color came from; on the legal issues with the band by the same name

    12:25

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the importance of music on In Living Color; on what contemporary music (specifically hip-hop) brought to the show; on Public Enemy being on the show

    08:27

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the In Living Color sketch "Brothers' Brothers"

    01:07

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the In Living Color character "Frenchie" and on meeting Rick James while in character as "Frenchie" (who was based on Rick James)

    03:48

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the In Living Color character "Homie the Clown" based on comedian/writer Paul Mooney

    01:18

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the characters he created on In Living Color

    57:38

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on an In Living Color sketch about Black men being an endangered species; on dealing with censorship at the network

    56:05

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on not trying to deliver a "message" with his humor; on dealing with censorship and getting around the censors

    54:18

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the lost "Colt 45" sketch parodying Billy Dee Williams on In Living Color

    01:36

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the "Men on Football" sketch on In Living Color; parodying Carl Lewis; and the negative response to it

    04:53

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on why he left In Living Color

    02:04

    Keenen Ivory Wayans on the legacy of In Living Color

    02:06

    Larry Wilmore

    Larry Wilmore on how he came to write for In Living Color, and on what he learned as a writer on the show

    02:21

    Larry Wilmore on the In Living Color writers room, and on some of his favorite sketches from that show

    03:09

    Larry Wilmore on not wanting to be a performer on In Living Color, and on what he learned as a writer on that show

    02:10

    Larry Wilmore on being nominated for an Emmy for writing on In Living Color

    01:06

    Larry Wimore on the legacy of In Living Color

    02:01

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