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Biography of Damon Wayans - Comedian
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Damon Wayans (born September 4, 1960), one of the Wayans brothers, is a stand-up comedy|stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who began his career as a stand-up comic in 1982. He was briefly on Saturday Night Live as a featured performer, before getting fired for changing character while on-air. He went on to do In Living Color from 1990 to 1992, part of a team that was nominated for Emmy Awards all three years. He produced Waynehead, a cartoon for the WB, loosely based on his own childhood growing up in a large family, starring a poor boy with a clubfoot. It only lasted a season. From 2001 until 2005, Wayans starred in the American Broadcasting Company|ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids. http://abc.go.com/primetime/wifeandkids/bios/damon _wayans.html Before that, he starred in the films Major Payne and The Great White Hype. In 1999 his New York Times bestseller called Bootleg was published; it is a humorous compilation of his observations about family, children, marriage, and politics. ==External links== *http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001834/ IMDB entry on Damon Wayans

