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as In Living Color DJ, 141, 205, 234
and In Living Color pilot, 111, 138
and In Living Color writing staff, 205, 213
and Kick It with the Fly Girls spinoff, 191, 208
and Eddie Murphy, 90–91
standup career of, 111, 205, 274
Keenen Ivory Wayans’s relationship with, 205–206, 259
The Wayans Bros., 334–335
Wentworth, Ali, 268, 274–275, 289, 294, 297, 313, 322–323, 326
West, Kanye, 348, 354
What’s Happening!!, 40, 306
White Chicks (film), 336, 347
White Men Can’t Jump (film), 189, 307
Whitney-Morrison, Michelle, 140, 170, 227
Wickline, Matt, 139, 161, 163, 176, 309
Williams, Michael, 75–77
Williams, Robin, 35, 36, 47, 60
Williams-Villano, Mary, 315–317, 340
Wilmore, Larry:
and In Living Color writing staff, 207, 214, 216, 218–219, 222–223, 237, 270, 272, 301, 348
and The Jamie Foxx Show, 335
Wilmore, Marc, 219, 283, 289, 297–298, 306, 315
Wilson, Flip:
breakthroughs in black comedy, 3, 23, 79, 86
film roles of, 24
Eddie Murphy compared to, 54
TV show of, 23, 79, 150, 345, 346
The Wilton North Report, 103, 105
Winfrey, Oprah, 3, 197, 265
Witherspoon, John, 47, 95
Y
Yo! MTV Raps, 169, 356
Z
Zlotnik, Carmi, 107, 108, 136–138
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