Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans, Sr. is an American actor, comedian, writer and producer, and member of the Wayans family of entertainers. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a yearlong stint on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, although his true breakthrough came as a co-creator and performer on his own sketch comedy show, In Living Color, from 1990 to 1992. Since then he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth18 November 1982
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once.
We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.