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<a href="/biography/damon-wayans">Damon Kyle Wayans</a> is best known for his stand-up comedy. He is also an <a href="/biography/damon-wayans">actor</a>, writer, and producer who has appeared on numerous television shows. Throughout the 1980s, Wayans worked as a stand-up comedian and actor, including a year-long stint on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

While writing and performing on FOX's sketch comedy show In Living Color from 1990 to 1992, his true breakthrough came with his animated series Waynehead, which aired on the Kids' WB block from 1996 to 1997, and his television series Damon (1998). His acting career has taken him to a variety of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Beverly Hills Cop, The Last Boy Scout, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Payne">Major Payne</a>, and the sitcom My Wife and Kids. He has also appeared in a number of commercials, including tv series Lethal Weapon from 2016 to 2019, in which he played <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murtaugh">Roger Murtaugh</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murtaugh">police officer</a>.

<h2>Background and Early Life</h2>

Damon Wayans was born on the 4th of September 1960in Harlem in New York City. His mother, Elvira Alethia, worked as a social worker and a homemaker singer, while his father, Howell Stouten Wayans, was a supermarket manager. He has five sisters, Elvira, Nadia, Vonnie, Diedre, and Kim. Apart from five sisters, he also has four brothers to make it a family of 10. His brothers are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keenen_Ivory_Wayans">Keenen Ivory Wayans</a>, <a href="/biography/dwayne-wayans">Dwayne Wayans</a>, and <a href="/biography/marlon-wayans">actor</a> <a href="/biography/marlon-wayans">Marlon Wayans</a>.

<h2>Career</h2>

In 1982, he started stand-up comedy. Beverly Hills Cop was his first film appearance in 1984, and this was a film by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Murphy">Eddie Murphy</a> where he took the role of an effeminate hotel employee. Between 1985 and 1986, he was a featured <a href="/biography/damon-wayans">performer</a> on Saturday Night Live before getting fired for going against the script by acting as a glitzy gay cop rather than a straight cop on a live sketch. In the 1980s, he featured in the syndicated television series called Solid Good as a comedian. He and his brother finally made the In Living Color, a Fox sketch comedy series. This comedy has casts that are primarily <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African American</a>.

Finally, in 1990, the show started airing. For two years, the show ran, but Damon in 1992 left the show in the quest for his acting career. He also featured in movies such as The Last Boy Scout, The Great White Hype, Bulletproof, Mo' Money, Celtic Pride, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Payne">Major Payne</a>. In the video "The Best Things in Life Are Free" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Jackson">Janet Jackson</a>, he was also featured. In The Riddler in Batman Forever, he was considered the role but finally was given to <a href="/biography/jim-carrey">Jim Carry</a>, who was his <a href="/biography/jim-carrey">partner</a> in the movie Earth Girls Are Easy and In Living color. He produced Waynehead in 1996, and it was a cartoon for WB. This cartoon was about his childhood life and how he was a club foot. As a result of poor ratings, the show had only one season.

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Between 1997 and 1998, there was a drama on FOX Network titled 413 Hope St., he was the executive producer, and the show has <a href="/biography/jesse-l-martin">Jesse L. Martin</a> and <a href="/biography/richard-roundtree">Richard Roundtree</a> as stars. He also starred in a comedy TV series called Damon in 1998. He acted as a Chicago detective in this series and was aired on Fox Network. He wrote a book, Bootleg, co-authored with David Asbery in 1990. It's a funny compilation of what he has observed about family. From 2005, in the comedy series My Wife and Kids on ABC, he was among the key actor. He was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Wayans_Jr.">producer</a> of The Underground series and starred in it in 2006. This series featured his own son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Wayans_Jr.">Damon, Jr.</a>, in 2006; he was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Wayans_Jr.">host</a> of the BET Awards. He then put his writing skill to action on his frictional novel "Red Hats."

Red Hat was about a woman who was 65 years old and was suicidal. She found happiness and friendship through her union with the Red Hat Society. Then in 2014, he continued his performance as a stand-up comedian. He also has a company of freelancers. This company is known as MIMS that is Money in My Sleep. Well, there is an app for this MIMS. This company makes applications such as Diddeo, Flick Dat, and vHeads. On the 12th of November, 20015, he announced he was retiring from being a stand-up comedian from December 2015. He acted the role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murtaugh">Roger Murtaugh</a> in Lethal Weapon of the television version.

The actual role was created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Glover">Danny Glover</a>. Damon is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Wayans_Jr.">character</a> among characters and is greatly respected in the comedy industry. Well, information about him is widely available for everyone.

<h2>Personal Life</h2>

Wayans was married to Lisa Thorner, with whom he had a divorce in 2000. He has four children with Thorner: sons <a href="/biography/damon-wayans">Damon Wayans Jr.</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/مايكل_وايانس">Michael Wayans</a>, as well as daughters Cara Mia Wayans and Kyla Wayans. Wayans is a close personal <a href="/biography/damon-wayans">friend</a> of NBA <a href="/biography/michael-jordan">legend</a> <a href="/biography/michael-jordan">Michael Jordan</a> as well as fellow In Living Color <a href="/biography/jim-carrey">actor</a> <a href="/biography/jim-carrey">Jim Carrey</a>.

It was in January 2013 that Wayans was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

When <a href="/biography/bill-cosby">Bill Cosby</a> was accused of sexual assault in September 2015, Wayans defended the American comedian by saying, "It's just a money-making scheme." He went on to say the following: "For forty years – listen, how big is his penis that it causes you to lose your memory for forty years? They say things like, "Well, the first time...," when you listen to them talk. When was the first time? Bitch, how many times has this happened to you? Simply pay attention to what they're saying; some of them are truly unrape-able. 'You don't want that,' I say as I look them in the eyes. 'Get the hell out of here.'"

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