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Keenen Ivory Wayans

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The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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This is really a difficult time to be in films.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#best #films #good #just #make

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#going #kind #out #things #work

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#me #takes #you

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


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About Keenen Ivory Wayans






Did you know about Keenen Ivory Wayans?

Biography
Wayans was born in New York City son of Howell Wayans a supermarket manager and his wife Elvira a homemaker and social worker. In Living Color


Characters
Death Row Comic (Prison Cable Access)
Frenchie
Ice Man (Homeboy Shopping Network)
Tom Brothers (The Brothers Brothers)
Wes (Wes & Less)


Impressions
Arsenio Hall
Billy Dee Williams
Don Cornelius
Jesse Jackson
Little Richard
Mike Tyson
Marsha Warfield
Milli (Rob Pilatus) of Milli Vanilli
Morgan Freeman (such as Hoke Colburn from Driving Miss Daisy Principal Joe Clark from Lean On Me)
Rick James
Steve Harvey
Carl Weathers (as Apollo Creed)


Filmography


Writing/producing/directing credits
Hollywood Shuffle (1987) (and writer)
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987) (producer)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) (writer and director)
In Living Color (1990–1992; 2013- ) (executive producer director and creator/writer)
The Five Heartbeats (1991) (writer)
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) (writer and director)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) (producer)
The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show (1997) (executive producer)
Most Wanted (1997) (executive producer and writer)
Scary Movie (2000) (actor and director)
Scary Movie 2 (2001) (director and actor)
White Chicks (2004) (producer director)
Little Man (2006) (producer writer director)
Dance Flick (2009) (producer writer)
It Takes A Village (TBA) (writer director). Personal life
Wayans is a vegetarian and a supporter of the animal rights group PETA.

He briefly hosted his own show called The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. Keenen Ivory Wayans (born June 8 1958) is an American actor comedian director and writer known as the host and creator of the FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color.

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