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The Important Cinema Club

#242 - The Wayans Brothers Just Want To Make You Laugh

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of the most famous Wayans Brothers: Damon Wayans Sr, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Shawn Wayans with a focus on their films I'M GONNA GET YOU SUCKA, SCARY MOVIE, WHITE CHICKS and LITTLE MAN. Listen to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Check out Justin's other podcast THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us) Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin Includon. I'm here today with Will Sloan. And you're listening to

0:09.0

the important cinema club. And today, we're talking about the Wayne's brothers. That's right.

0:14.2

We're talking Damon. We're talking Sean. We're talking Marlon. We're talking their sister, Kim. And, of course,

0:20.2

we're talking about the

0:21.0

grand pooh-bah, Keenan Ivory. And that's just the first generation. There are so many other

0:27.0

Wayans out there. I mean, I put it out to Will that there was a whole dromedy TV show called

0:32.7

Second Generation Wayans that was not a reality TV show. It was a scripted, regular series about

0:40.9

the offspring of the Wains Brothers. I think dance flick stars Damon Wayans Jr. Does it not?

0:47.6

So Damon Wayne Jr. is very funny. He was one of the leads on New Girl, and he was also on the show Happy Endings. And I think he's very

0:56.6

funny. Love seeing him on screen. The Wayans family, what can you say about them? They are

1:00.6

responsible for In Living Color, which was considered such a groundbreaking show at the time,

1:05.6

still very fondly remembered. And yet also, the Wayans Brothers, as a brand name, it is not a prestigious brand name.

1:14.5

It has the same reputation in certain critical circles as, like, Rob Schneider.

1:20.3

First of all, that's the first reason I wanted to bring this topic to the table, because of that

1:24.0

cognitive dissonance, right?

1:25.7

Like, they are responsible for, you know, one of the iconic TV comedy shows, and they

1:32.0

are the Wayans Brothers.

1:33.0

And I think it's important that for people that are either younger or older than us to

1:37.6

know that when me and Will were teens, they were omnipresent as a brand of comedy.

1:42.3

Yes, and in the 2000s, when they were probably at the height

1:45.6

of their popularity in some ways, like they were making big budget major studio comedies,

1:50.9

every new Wayans Brothers movie was greeted as schlock. Did you go back and read any like

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