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Leguizamo is, in fact, part of a wave of young minority comedians who use laughter to lampoon ethnic and other stereotypes, often at the risk of offending fellow minorities. Damon and Keenen Ivory Wayans have widened the parameters of black humor on their TV show In Living Color, enacting such caricatures as dogmatic homeboys, bums and effeminate book reviewers. Stand-up comedian Tamayo Otsuki revs up her act by portraying the Japanese as greedy moneybags who discipline their children by evoking memories of the atom bomb. ) Such humor, argues Leguizamo, is an "exorcism" rooted in the liberating power of self...
Hollywood Shuffle with Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans...
...Living Color (Fox). The scripts have grown more erratic since the debut last spring, but Keenen Ivory Wayans and his talented family have perked up prime time with their sharp impersonations and satirical derring-do. Two snaps...
...LIVING COLOR (Fox, Saturdays, 9 p.m. EDT). Keenen Ivory Wayans (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka) created and stars in this weekly satirical revue with a black spin. The impersonations (Arsenio Hall, Mike Tyson) are dead on, the laughs abundant. TV's brightest new spring comedy, by a mile...
...competitiveness between us. When I called and told him I had been signed by Paramount, he couldn't have been happier." Though Hall has been linked with Murphy's so-called black pack -- a group of young black performers and filmmakers, among them actor-directors Robert Townshend and Keenen Ivory Wayans -- Hall says the others are only casual friends...