In Living Color is an American
sketch comedy television series that originally ran on
Fox from April 15, 1990, to May 19, 1994. Brothers
Keenen and
Damon Wayans created, wrote and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory Way Productions in association with
20th Century Fox Television and was taped at stage 7 at the
Fox Television Center on
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The title of the series was inspired by the
NBC announcement of broadcasts being presented "in living color" during the 1950s and 1960s, prior to mainstream
color television. It also refers to the fact that most of the show's cast were black, unlike other sketch comedy shows such as
Saturday Night Live whose casts were mostly white. It was
controversial due to the Wayans' decision to portray African-American humor from the
ghetto in a time when mainstream American tastes regarding black comedy had been set by more upscale shows such as
The Cosby Show, causing an eventual feud for control between Fox executives and the Wayans.