Legacy, Loss & Laughs with Marlon Wayans

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Wondery

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

You know the name and the family but you’ve never heard Marlon Wayans like this. In a deeply personal and hilarious conversation, he opens up about grieving his parents, parenting a trans son, and how both experiences brought him to a place of radical love and acceptance. He spills on Scary Movie 6, his chilling new horror film HIM, and what it’s really like being the youngest Wayans. Plus: a full-blown roast of his brothers, a gift exchange, and a wild round of One’s Gotta Go. Buckle up. This one’s got layers.

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0:00.0	Y'all, today's guest is a true comedy king, a writer, actor, producer, and part of one of the most iconic families in entertainment history, from flipping horror on its head with scary movie to giving us cult classics like white chick, to his latest role as a football legend with the sinister side in his new movie, him.
0:22.2	Baby, this is Marlon Wands. He's getting into grief, growth, legacy, and the realest
0:27.7	version of fatherhood and his new comedy special about his trans son, Kai. And you know I had to get
0:33.8	into who the finest Wands brother really is. Spoiler. Marla! So, let's get us to the show. No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling. Pumbo, Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all. Especially the bad because money always involved. No matter what it is, we're going to make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and kids.
0:58.7	So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only one is your girl.
0:59.0	Baby, this, this is Kiki.
1:03.3	Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah.
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1:13.0	Baby, summer's calling, and she's got one thing on her mind, your next getaway.
1:18.1	My take?
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1:25.5	Let's get into it.
1:28.5	Okay, Marley, you know I'm so happy to have you on the show because I've been wanting this for a long time. Well, I told you, you got to have to earn it, you know. I'm approved. I don't just give it up. Because I'm like, you're on all these other people. You on all these other people's podcasts. You ain't came to baby. This is, this is Kiki. Palm and you know I'm your number one fan. You know why? I saved the best for last.
1:46.3	Hey. See that boy, that boy not to do it. podcast. You ain't came to baby. This is Kiki Palman. You know I'm your number one fan.
1:45.3	I saved the best for eyes.
1:57.6	Hey. Hey. That boy, that boy not to do it, boy. You too slick. You too slick. That boy know I know how to do it. Now, y'all know we do the pre-show, the pre-show questionnaire. So let me see what you, what you, I got to get into this chicken scratch. I write like a doctor.
2:02.1	That's how you know who creative is possible creative geniuses are because their handwriting is terrible.
2:03.7	Yeah, you definitely up there. I write like a doctor. That's how you know who creative is possible creative geniuses are
2:02.1	because their handwriting is terrible.
2:03.7	Yeah, you're definitely up there.
2:05.2	So today I'm giving dopedness with a side of goodness.
2:09.9	That feels good.
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