
Homey Don't Play That!
The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
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Narrated by:
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JD Jackson
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By:
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David Peisner
Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous and continued impact on our culture as In Living Color. Inspired by Richard Pryor, Carol Burnett, and Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans created a television series unlike any that had come before it. Along the way, he introduced the world to Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Rosie Perez, and Jennifer Lopez, not to mention his own brothers Damon, Marlon, and Shawn Wayans.
In Living Color shaped American culture in ways both seen and unseen, and was part of a sea change that moved Black comedy and hip-hop culture from the shadows into the spotlight. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit.
Through exclusive interviews with the cast, writers, producers, and network executives, this insightful and entertaining chronicle follows the show's ups and downs, friendships and feuds, tragedies and triumphs, sketches and scandals, the famous and the infamous, unveiling a vital piece of history in the evolution of comedy, television, and black culture.
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fascinating
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Very informational
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History of Iconic Show
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History Lesson on Comedy and Hip-Hop
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Extremely well-written
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Not what I expected…but not bad
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What I wanted was a book about In Living Color. You know, the TV show. Not notes from a community college sociology class. Taught by a bored professor. On weekends. At night. In a blizzard.....
And when the book does actually get to the show, everything is third party. So & so said this: type of writing. The writing is so uninspired, that I had to finish it in order to know if it got better. It didn't.
The performance is not much better. Feels like JD Jackson hated the book just as much as I did. Let's just say he took one for the team here.
If you are interested in African American Comedy, the recent Richard Pryor book Furious Cool, is head and shoulders above this sad excuse for a book.
Wow, that sucked......
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It was just ok
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