Tag: In Living Color
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The 10 Best Jennifer Lopez Movies, from ‘Anaconda’ to ‘Marry Me’
Since dancing her way onto the entertainment scene in the late ‘80s, cultural icon Jennifer Lopez has become widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s foremost triple-threat entertainers. Also known as “J.Lo” or “Jenny from the Block,” thanks to her 2002 hit single, Lopez rose to fame as a dancer on the sketch comedy TV series…
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Jamie Foxx on Voicing Disney-Pixar’s First Black Lead in ‘Soul’ and Being Unapologetically Black in Hollywood
There are few entertainers like Jamie Foxx; he’s a multihyphenate superstar with the trophy case to back it up. Though Foxx has the range and a backlog of dramatic, comedic and generally off-the wall characters to pull from, when it came to voicing Joe Gardner in Disney-Pixar’s “Soul,” the film’s creative team just wanted the…
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Review: Adam Sandler Pushes the Nostalgia Button Too Many Times
In case you missed it, Adam Sandler and “Saturday Night Live” have a bit of history. Sandler, of course, goes more into detail about this in his monologue, but he was a cast member on the show. 24 years later, though, Sandler has never hosted “SNL” — until now, that is. It’s certainly one of…
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‘In Living Color’ Reunion Touches on Comedy, Spike Lee, and ‘Men on Film’
You can do what you wanna do in living color, including reunite 25 years after your TV series comes to an end. That’s what creator/star Keenan Ivory Wayans just did at Tribeca with co-stars Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans, Tommy Davidson, and David Alan Grier, celebrating the sketch-comedy show’s five-season run in the early ’90s. Though…
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‘On the Rocks’: Marlon Wayans Joins Sofia Coppola’s Apple/A24 Movie
It comes as little surprise that Bill Murray is in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming “On the Rocks,” but the latest addition to the cast is a bit unusual: Marlon Wayans, who just joined the joint venture between Apple and A24. The actor, comedian, and screenwriter has mostly appeared in comedies throughout his career, from spoofs like…
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Jim Carrey’s Unsuccessful ‘SNL’ Audition Was Even Weirder Than You’d Expect
Jim Carrey got his start on “In Living Color,” but it wasn’t the first sketch-comedy show he auditioned for. The actor, painter, and increasingly outspoken Trump Administration critic appeared at the New Yorker Festival to discuss his new Showtime series “Kidding” last night and, according to Vulture, recalled the bad omen that preceded his unsuccessful…
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‘Kidding’ Review: Jim Carrey Shines Darkly in Showtime’s Series as a Broken Mr. Rogers
The magic trick that sets Kidding apart is that it’s about a character who is quite clearly breaking, but never actually breaks. In his first series regular role since In Living Color, Jim Carrey plays Jeff Piccirillo, better known as the ever-smiling man-elf host of Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time. Jeff has become so lovingly ingrained…