ENTERTAINMENT TOO LIGHT VISITS IN LIVID COLOR

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
SYNDICATED 1981-present

IN LIVING COLOR
FOX 1990-1994


ENTERTAINMENT TOO LIGHT VISITS IN LIVID COLOR
MAD # 317, March 1993
w: A. J. Marley (Arnie Kogen)
a: Sam Viviano

Parodying two shows at once, Entertainment Tonight was/is an entertainment/news show starring John Tesh and Mary Hart. They cover whatever is going on in media that day, but for this article they're only covering In Living Color, a sketch comedy show. The producer and host of the show was Keenan Ivory Wayans and a lot of the cast were his family, such as Damon, Shawn, Marlon, and Kim.

As a publicity stunt, Mary Hart's legs were insured by Lloyd's of London

One of their recurring sketches was The Homeboy Shopping Network. Damon Wayons was Anton, a homeless wino that carried around a pickle in a jar that was supposed to represent a turd and the jar his toilet.

Homey the Clown was one of the first 'bad clowns', with the catchphrase “Homey don't play that.” Leonard Maltin, Entertainment Tonight's movie critic, introduces the In Living Color sketch Men on Film where Damon Wayons and David Alan Grier played two effeminate movie critics. They never specifically said they were gay, but there were plenty of innuendos implying it was the premise, because in the early 90s it was still acceptable for mainstream media to make that the joke.

Leeza Gibbons interviews Kelly Coffield and Jim Carrey, who were the only two white cast members. One of Carrey's most famous characters was Fire Marshall Bill, a fire marshal who inevitably ended up starting fires he was there to prevent. The Fly Girls danced on stage in between sketches. One of them was a very young Jennifer Lopez.