Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sr.is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers. He first came to prominence as the host and co-creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written a large number of films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he co-wrote, in 1987. A majority of these films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters in the cast. One of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1958
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out
People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
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
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.