If you don’t have to wear pants, should you? People have been sharing just how they’ve been handling video calls during this quarantine, and often it requires business up top and casual from the waist down. Comedy icon Keenen Ivory Wayans decided to join the growing list of celebrities who are using their platforms to send encouraging messages to the graduating class of 2020 since they won’t be able to join their peers and walk across stages to receive their diplomas. Wayans recorded a video from his home, and it’s obvious that he’s not getting dressed up—at least not fully—for anyone.

 
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The video begins with the In Living Color creator asking a young whippersnapper how to record to his message. “So I just push that red button?” The person tells him yes. Then, he begins his inspirational message. “Hello, everybody. This is Keenen Ivory Wayans. I just want to say congratulations to the class of 2020,” he stated. “I know this sucks. You worked your ass off, and now you don’t even get to walk, but that’s what makes you the greatest generation of this new millennium. In the face of a global pandemic, you stayed focused, continued to work hard, and achieved your goals. That’s the kind of leaders we’re going to need in the future. I wish you guys all the best.”

He ended his message by saying, “Keep striving, keep smiling,” a nod to Dionne Warwick’s “That’s What Friends Are For.” Then, Keenen looks to tap the “red button” that’s supposed to stop his video. The actor stood up and revealed that he wasn’t wearing any pants…or underwear. In the caption, he wrote, “#oldn*ggatrynauseinstagram.” The clip brought in laughs from his Wayans tribe and celebrities from all facets of the industry, so watch Keenen Ivory Wayans’s funny video below. 

“Wayans” is a powerful family tree in the entertainment industry. With decades of successful careers under their belts, many of the Wayans crew have established themselves as formidable forces in front of and behind the camera. Siblings Keenen, Damon, Marlon, Shawn, and Kim are just a handful of successful Wayans continuing their paths in the industry. The famous Wayans sister recently chatted with BET for their In My Twenties series and she reflected on what her career was like back in her In Living Color days alongside her family.

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“In my 20s, I was 16,” the former In the House star said. “I was a late bloomer. I was still very much a child when I was in my 20s. I was very much a teenager in so many different ways.” Kim stated that in today’s culture, entertainers have so many ways to get noticed or to create opportunities for themselves. However, back when she was making a way in the industry, it was a bit more difficult not to be boxed in by the movers and shakers.

“Certain things are asked of you to do as a black actress and it really wasn’t all that thrilling and all that exciting,” she said. “It’s nice to see now all these opportunities and all these different ways of seeing black people and black women, in particular, that’s really great.” Kim also dropped off a bit of wisdom for creatives navigating their careers.

“Trust your own voice,” said Kim. “When I was young like that, I didn’t really trust my voice. I looked to my brothers, I looked to other people to basically tell me who I was. Deep inside, I knew who I was and I knew what I wanted to do, but when you’re young like that, sometimes it’s hard to trust that.” Watch Kim Wayans’s In My Twenties below.

His career catapulted into stardom as one of the key cast members of In Living Color, but all that glitters isn’t gold. His funny characters are now apart of television history, but while he was making America laugh every week, Tommy Davidson was struggling with a serious addiction. The actor has been on a press tour recently in support of his newly released memoir Living in Color, and in a chat with Comedy Hype, Davidson discussed leaving his hit show to go to rehab.

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“I don’t make no excuses for nothing,” the comedian said. “It was just I had a problem, man. And it took me out, and if it wasn’t for me having good people around me, I’d be where Elvis [Presly] is, John Belushi is, [Chris] Farley. I’m grateful. I don’t even trip. It got to that point where I had to do something and life circumstances would come along… and you’ll throw caution to the wind to warnings. I seen the warnings all around my neighborhood. I seen addicts all my life. I seen people with alcohol problems all my life. All my life. And people would sit me down and say don’t you do that, and it wasn’t a conscious decision. It was just one of them things where there was a lot of opportunities available to me and I was in an emotional space where I was dependent on those things to help me deal with the present reality.”

He admitted that Keenan Ivory Wayans, the creator of In Living Color, along with others pulled him to the side to urge him to get help. After he left for a time Davidson did return to the show, but the cast had made a few changes while he was gone. He said “there was a lack of quality to the show” at that point and that he missed the friendship he’d formed. Check out his clip in full below.

It’s been decades since we’ve seen Jamie Foxx take to the small screen on In Living Color. We watched his portrayal of his hilarious character “Wanda,” and in his speech at the Urban One Honors, he portrayed her once again to a laugh-filled audience. Jamie’s daughter, actress Corinne Foxx, presented him with the Entertainment Icon Award, and the first thing he did was sing her praises. “No matter what you do, it’s how your kids turn out,” he said before she trotted back over to her proud father to give him a hug. Then, he went into how he was just a country boy from Texas listening to and watching people from Los Angeles and New York thinking that “city people are so cool, maybe I’ll get a chance to rub elbows with some of those incredible people.”

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Jamie shared that back in the day he wanted to break into the music industry but because he was known as the funny guy, people weren’t taking him seriously. While speaking about his days on In Living Color, the actor revisited Wanda and had the audience in stitches as he revised his character. “Word up, this is nice!” he said in her voice with his eyes crossed. “Oh, Urban Ones!”

He then talked about throwing a party for Diddy way back when (with the Diddy dance the music mogul used to pull off in music videos) and gave details about who was there. Missy Elliott, who was also in the audience because she was honored with the Music Innovation Award, was apparently at Jamie’s party for Diddy along with Jay Z, who no one knew at the time.

The comedian gave his best Jay Z impression before saying a producer friend of his brought Kanye West to the shindig, as well. “He brought this guy in, his jaw was kinda messed up and he had a backpack on. Who was it? Kanye West,” Jamie said. While giving his Kanye impersonation, Jamie said Ye told him he had a song he thought the actor would be great on. They immediately went to Jamie’s studio and worked on the classic hit “Slow Jamz.” He also shared how “Gold Digger” came about, so check out his speech in full and don’t miss out on these hilarious Jamie Foxx memories.

Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx has come a long way in his career since his start as a small-time stand-up comedian. He’s put in the work to become an A-list actor, but according to his former In Living Color co-star Tommy Davidson, Foxx wasn’t always the easiest person to work with. The pair starred on the hit 1990s comedy show and repeatedly worked together on hilarious scenes that have gone down in television history, but Davidson shares in his forthcoming memoir that Foxx often acted like a “mercifully mean” bully.

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In Davidson’s book Living In Color, which hits shelves on January 28, the actor gave a few examples of how Foxx would allegedly do his best to get under Davidson’s skin. He wrote about working with Foxx on In Living Color during a scene when Foxx portrayed hs famous, less-than-attractive female character Wanda. In the scene, Wanda gives Davidson’s unsuspecting character a massage, but according to Davidson, Foxx decided to do a little improv and attempted to pull Davidson’s underwear off in front of the audience for a “cheap laugh.”

Davidson admitted his initial reaction was to “bust him in his mouth, saying, ‘What the f–k, motherf–ka!’” but he didn’t. He also called Foxx a “competitive” type who teased Davidson in order to “score points” with In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans. The pair also worked together in the future on the comedy film Booty Call, but Davidson said Foxx was “determined to steal every scene he could” even though he was a supporting role. 

Once, Davidson said Foxx even took a low blow while they were playing one-on-one on the basketball court. “If I had hit my head on the hardtop concrete, that would have been the end of me,” he wrote, according to Page Six. “I was ready to give Jamie some street-fighting lessons too, but the crew pulled us off each other and held me back.” He added, “Maybe [Foxx is] a better person now. I would like to believe he is.” Check out the massage scene Davidson referenced, below.