Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (/ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/;[1] born September 4, 1960)[2] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer and one of the Wayans family. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year-long stint on the NBC sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live.
Wayans' true breakthrough, however, came as writer and performer on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990-1992), on his animated series Waynehead (1996-1997) and on his TV series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Beverly Hills Cop, Mo Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcom My Wife and Kids. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon. He is a member of the Wayans family of entertainers.
Wayans was brought in as a featured player for season 11. He was fired after the March 15, 1986 episode. On that episode, in the sketch Mr. Monopoly, Wayans was cast as a police officer who stood mostly silent during an interrogation. Fed up with what he saw as a string of small, unimportant parts throughout the season, he broke from the script and portrayed the character as flagrantly gay. (He performed to the script during the dress rehearsal.) Lorne Michaels fired him after the show, but invited him back to do standup for the last episode of the season. He also returned nine years later to host the April 8, 1995 episode, the seventeenth episode of Season 20, with musical guest Dionne Farris.
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- Keith
- Ned Jones
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- Babyface
- Little Richard
- Louis Farrakhan
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