From the New York Times, this is the interview. I am David Marquesie.

It's not easy to make what some people might call dumb comedy.

Because if it were, more people would have a career

as successful as Marlon Wayans.

Wayans broke out in the early 2000s

when he co-wrote and co-starred in slap sticky parody comedy movie hits like

Scary Movie One and Two, White Chicks, and my personal favorite little man, which

for those of you who don't remember is one in which he plays an adult

masquerading as a baby

he spends most of the movie in a diaper

Marlin is the youngest of ten children

and he's a member of the Wayans Family Comedy Dynasty, which also includes his successful

siblings, Damon, Sean, Kim, and Keenan Ivory Wayans.

They all had a hand in the groundbreaking 90s sketch comedy show in living color. Marlin went from there to later starring on five

seasons of the W. B. sitcom, The Wayans Brothers. He made all those hit movies I mentioned

and then on top of all that he's also built a nice career for himself as a supporting player in dramatic movies.

But recently, Wayans, who's now 51, has been using his comedy to work through some much heavier topics.

His upcoming stand-up special, called Good Grief,

is all about the death of his parents,

as well as the nearly 60 other loved ones

he's lost in just the last few years.

When I talked to Marlin he was in Albuquerque where he was

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