In Living Color

[Azn Retribution]

I recently bought a couple of the seasons of in living color for nostalgia's sake
and i noticed it was a pretty diverse cast for a early 90s show.

I mean two APA's

Carrie Ann Inaba (she was the asian fly girl) also currently one of the hottest choreographers in hollywood.

and Steve Park (apparently a standup comedian but I dont think I've heard of him before)

what did ya'all think about this show back then? (I was like 6 or 7 when it was on tv and didn't get most of the jokes)

[returntosender]

You didn't notice that In Living Color was a double entendre?

It was created by Keenan Ivory Wayans, and he was smart enough to know that an all black cast on a comedy sketch show wouldn't have done half as good.

[nameless]

classic show. i remember steve park's bit 'i'm an f-o-b (parady of 'i'm an o-p-p, or whatever the hip hop song was at the time). that might have been my earliest memory of seeing an asian american on tv.

[Azn Retribution]

Oh I got the double entendre its just that
you don't usually see anyone (black or not) consider
us APA's in the color spectrum.
Especially in hollywood.

[deez nuts]

jim carrey was the whole show.

the rest of the cast (including that asian dude for those that were about to get their panties in a bunch) just started grinding on your nerves after awhile.

what does blow my mind is how different jennifer lopez looked.

[tommyhtown]

jim carrey was the whole show.

the rest of the cast (including that asian dude for those that were about to get their panties in a bunch) just started grinding on your nerves after awhile.

what does blow my mind is how different jennifer lopez looked.

I don't know about Carrey was the whole show. I like Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson, and the bald Wayan brother. Yep, Jenifer Lopez sure looks different then although she was my favorite fly girl then.

[TB4000]

I think Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey, and David Alan Grier made the show what it was as far as popular characters and ad libbing.

[Irezumi Kiss]

I think Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey, and David Alan Grier made the show what it was as far as popular characters and ad libbing.
Yeah, I second that. The core cast network knew how to gel with and bounce off one another. When they all splintered, that dynamic was lost and it wasn't the same anymore, but everything good can't last forever. The first few seasons was funny as fuck and everyone I knew was glued to the set on the nights it showed. I was going to art school when it first came out and there was a bunch of us heads at our dorm that used to pile into a room just to watch it together on our rickety-ass tv set, drankin' beer and smokin' joints while laffin' our asses off.

Times have changed and not to make more outta the show than is necessary, but it was really special to watch, as people of color, to see some OTHER shit on regular-ass TV that made you stop everything you were doing for 30 minutes just so you could crack the fuck up...and you KNEW you were going to crack the fuck up, but you just didn't know HOW. I'm happy to see it on DVD, but for old school heads like me, REALLY appreciating it meant watching every show as it appeared, videotaping each show until the tape was filled up, then dubbing the tape for everyone to watch again and again. Shit was so different back then. If it wasn't for that show, J-Lo, Carrey and a whole host of heads, not to mention some comedy routines and formats would not even be on the map today. Social reality jokes that didn't pull punches? Putting a DJ in place of a music selector? Showcasing the then up-and-coming hip-hop/R&B artists that weren't selected by Billboard and had yet to be co-opted by White America? Homie the Clown and Fire Marshal Bill? Ahhh, the memories...I might just go pick this joint up myself.

All the Fly Girls were fly, but Jennifer, Carrie-Ann and Aurora were the flyest. We used to argue over that shit, too.

[SunWuKong]

by the way, Carrie Ann Inaba was Fook Yu in Austin Powers Goldmember.

[TB4000]

And Diane Mizota was Fook Mi. The latter actually got some more work afterwards.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Both of them did, didn't they? Doing theater and TV stuff?

Last time I saw Steve Park was as a bit actor in some movie I can't recall, playing a policeman.

[kimpossible]

Didn't Steve Park have some not so great parting comments about the show afterwards?

[SunWuKong]

Steve Park was the Asian guy in Fargo and according to IMDB, he got a lot of criticism from the Asian American community for that stereotypical character.

when i watched the movie, i thought the character was kind of stereotypical, but i thought, hey, at least he didn't have an accent.

[Azn Retribution]

Didn't Steve Park have some not so great parting comments about the show afterwards?


I wouldn't be surprised.
He's rarely featured in any skits by himself and if he is
they are rather stereotypical. i wouldnt say its stereotype busting
like the rest of in living color is.

He seemed to be extremely neglected in comparison to the rest of the cast

[TB4000]

Similar to Bobby Lee on Mad Tv?

[returntosender]

Bobby Lee does the same shit every week.

[nonamerasian]

I only like the nosey neighbor lady.

She's so much like some women in my family.

And the "Black World" skit was cute.

Otherwise, "In Livin' Color" seems like a bore now.

[miksong]

I was in middle school and high school during the In Living Color years. I was really hyped when they got Steve Park, but unfortunately he really wasnt that funny. He ended up taking some bit parts in several movies afterwards, but he has kind of dissappeared off the planet.