The title of Keenan Ivory Wayans' groundbreaking sketch comedy show "In Living Color" has a double meaning. Most notably, the series featured a cast made up almost entirely of Black comedians, including Wayans, his siblings Damon Wayans and Kim Wayans, Kim Coles, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, David Alan Grier, and Tommy Davidson. Jamie Foxx joined the cast later, and both Marlon and Shawn Wayans appeared sporadically. The only white performers in the cast were Jim Carrey ( credited as James Carrey ) and Kelly Coffield. When compared to the largely caucasian show "Saturday Night Live," Wayans' show was, he declared, in living color.

The phrase "in living color," though, is going to be familiar to those familiar with TV history. Back in the 1950s, the most popular, consumer-grade cathode-ray-tu

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