[Quote] Marlon Wayans is pushing back on political correctness and said that he will not change his comedy style to survive in this day and age and appease the current generation. In a recent interview, Wayans was asked if a movie like 2004’s White Chicks could “thrive” and not fall into “cancel culture.”
[Quote] “I think they’re needed. I don’t know what planet we’re on, where you think people don’t need laughter, and that people need to be censored and canceled. If a joke is gonna get me canceled, thank you for doing me that favor,” he told Buzzfeed. “It’s sad that society is in this place where we can’t laugh anymore. I ain’t listening to this damn generation.”
[Quote] White Chicks is a comedy directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans about two Black FBI agents, played by Wayans and his brother Shawn, who go undercover as women in whiteface to solve a kidnapping plot. The film was nominated for five Razzies including Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple. Over time, some have considered White Chicks problematic, but Wayans assured in the interview that he would not stop making films that make people laugh.
[Quote] “I ain’t listening to these folks: These scared-a** people, these scared executives,” he added. “Y’all do what you want to do? Great. I’m still gonna tell my jokes the way I tell them. And if you want to make some money, jump on board. And if not, then I’ll find a way to do it myself. I know my audience. My audience comes to my shows every weekend and they leave feeling great and laughing. One thing about the Wayans, we’ve always told the worst joke the best way.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 14, 2022 2:28 PM |
His brother Shawn had a fantastic ass in those Scary Movie movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 24, 2022 12:21 PM |
this current generation is full of pussies who can't handle any adversity without needing a safe space
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 24, 2022 12:27 PM |
goodness, he's handsome
the wayans family is wall to wall good looking men
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 24, 2022 12:28 PM |
Shawn was hilarious in Scary Movie.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 24, 2022 12:29 PM |
The woke/ politically correct Nazis have killed comedy.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 24, 2022 12:34 PM |
[quote]I don’t know what planet we’re on, where you think people don’t need laughter
Did the insult comics like Don Rickles whine this much when their comedy styles fell out of favor? I know Carlin did, he had that huge meltdown toward the end of his career, but I feel like most comedians simply dealt with it as adults when their careers changed because the culture changed.
There is nothing more pathetic than some celebrity whining that the culture has changed over the last 20 years and it's the end of the world.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 24, 2022 12:36 PM |
One of the problems I see is so many have lost the ability to laugh at themselves. The younger generation takes offense at everything and takes themselves too seriously. They are just too exhausting and oh so earnest.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 24, 2022 12:48 PM |
Have ALL the Wayans come out???
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 24, 2022 12:59 PM |
R6 it’s one this for comedy styles to fall out of favor, it’s another thing for comedy to fall out of favor, period. Not every comedian can be wrong on this.
Fwiw, I found late period George Carlin much funnier than what came before that.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 24, 2022 12:59 PM |
[quote]The younger generation takes offense at everything and takes themselves too seriously.
I don't know how anyone could regularly read the remarks of our beloved elderloungers and think it's only the younger generation that does this.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 24, 2022 1:00 PM |
[quote]it’s one this for comedy styles to fall out of favor, it’s another thing for comedy to fall out of favor, period.
It hasn't. Chappelle is practically a billionaire at this point, for telling the exact kinds of jokes you think have been "permanently cancelled."
[quote]Not every comedian can be wrong on this.
Please don't even waste our time with the "literally every comedian is saying this" crap. It's embarrassing.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 24, 2022 1:01 PM |
He looks good. And his brother did look amazing in those movies. The gay stereotyping was a bit annoying but worth it to see him at his peak.
Their nephew, Damon Jr. - who is only about ten years younger than the two brothers in White Chicks - is also good-looking, as I recall.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 24, 2022 1:08 PM |
R9- Yes, so did I, much so. Do we truly have the right to free speech when comedians have to fear losing their career over offending certain groups of people? These people have been given too much power.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 24, 2022 1:09 PM |
I find it utterly ridiculous to put the blame on an ENTIRE generation when A FEW PEOPLE consider some comedy outdated, or "problematic", by today's standards.
Haters have always existed. Social media gives them a venue to be heard louder and clearer than ever. And the media is more than happy to exploit any controversy for clicks and ratings.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 24, 2022 1:10 PM |
R14- But what right do they have to decide what people can speak about and find humor in?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 24, 2022 1:19 PM |
Except nobody is trying to cancel him. And the people that complain about White Chicks are the same people having a meltdown over cancel culture.
God you old people love to whine about muh millenials.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 24, 2022 1:19 PM |
I have a feeling a no-holds-barred, vulgar, un PC comedian or comedy movie is going to break through in a major way these next few years. People are desperate for someone to start breaking the rules.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 24, 2022 1:24 PM |
R16- I did not accuse an entire generation, in fact I haven't mentioned millennials once.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 24, 2022 1:27 PM |
R16
Exactly!
Also, I think we have to be very careful because arguments like these do fuel bigots who want to have the freedom to say the most heinous shit against minorities.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 24, 2022 1:28 PM |
[quote] I haven't mentioned millennials once.
You have now.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 24, 2022 1:28 PM |
[quote] [R14]- But what right do they have to decide what people can speak about and find humor in?
Huh? that has always existed. For example, older generations got offended by Elvis shaking his hips, declaring that music has gone to shit and is corrupting the youth.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 24, 2022 1:29 PM |
Those brothers just need to show their big black cocks.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 24, 2022 1:30 PM |
This is just cheap journalism. Every male comedian is asked this question for a reaction.
R16 is right. No one is trying to cancel him or “White Chick. Cancel culture has no real definition and until it’s defined it’s not real.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 24, 2022 1:33 PM |
I see the problem as people go to comedy shows these days to record them and try to find ways to be outraged or to start some Twitter scandal. What happened to not liking something and not participating in it. Instead, now it's let's destroy them.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 24, 2022 1:37 PM |
All the men in the Wayans family are hot.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 24, 2022 1:38 PM |
Culture is a wasteland today. Imagine being young and instead of creating and innovating, you’re obsessed with looking back decades to find things to be outraged about. A bunch of tedious schoolmarms.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 24, 2022 1:41 PM |
[quote] I see the problem as people go to comedy shows these days to record them and try to find ways to be outraged or to start some Twitter scandal. What happened to not liking something and not participating in it. Instead, [bold]now [/bold] it's let's destroy them.
You mean, like what happened to the Dixie Chicks in the early aughts? Yeah, very "now".
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 24, 2022 1:41 PM |
[quote]Do we truly have the right to free speech when comedians have to fear losing their career over offending certain groups of people?
This kind of exaggeration is ridiculous, and I'm constantly embarrassed by the people on DL who fall for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 24, 2022 1:42 PM |
[quote]people go to comedy shows these days to record them and try to find ways to be outraged or to start some Twitter scandal.
Nobody spends money for travel and tickets just to go to a show where your phone is almost certainly going to be locked away.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 24, 2022 1:43 PM |
Would he say the same if Black Chicks was made depicting Black women as fat, loud and obnoxious? I bet he wouldn't.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 24, 2022 1:44 PM |
R29 would defend witch hunters in 1600s Salem.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 24, 2022 1:46 PM |
[quote] Marlon Wayans: I Ain't Listening To This Generation
In short: Get off my lawn, you punks!
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 24, 2022 1:49 PM |
[quote]You mean, like what happened to the Dixie Chicks in the early aughts? Yeah, very "now".
What happened to the Dixie Chicks was awful, but this is different. The Dixie Chicks got caught up in a fresh wave of America is great and you're either with us or against us. It was even like that for a time here on DL. Right after 9/11, the country was in a scared and angry place. What's happening now is not us being in a scared place. It's people who were raised on anti-bullying campaigns not being able to know the difference between jokes and bullying.
[quote]Would he say the same if Black Chicks was made depicting Black women as fat, loud and obnoxious? I bet he wouldn't.
Are you not familiar with the Wayans work?
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 24, 2022 1:50 PM |
[quote] What's happening now is not us being in a scared place.
Uh, you are in a scared place where you feel threatened by social justice warriors, #metoo, Liberal Cancel Culture, controversial books, critical race theory, the word Gay, Trans, Liberals using early voting, etc.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 24, 2022 1:55 PM |
[quote]What's happening now is not us being in a scared place.
That is absolutely untrue on every conceivable level. Not only is r35 correct about the complaints obviously coming from a place of being scared of social change, but the recent massive upheavals in our culture -- Trump, Brexit, COVID, the economic downturn, gun violence, etc. -- has turned our culture into almost nothing BUT fear.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 24, 2022 1:57 PM |
if he had a time machine and came out to say this from twenty two years ago I would believed he was being earnest. . . but today, I'm inclined to think he's a band wagoning poseur... so much so that he, himself, wouldn't do white chicks today.
He's gone from Urkel to Stefan. (no, I'm not saying he's Jaleel White, you autist tards.)
He's too cool to for school and has a history of playing the game he claims to hate from this generation, too.
Not as bad as Mr. Chapelle. . who is by far worse on this kind of hypocrisy. But I suspect that's the larger influence of this. And Mr. Marlon is late, late, late to the party to be raising a fuss about all this now. Now, it pays to make these sorts of announcements.
Wake me when they're willing to do it it when it's unpopular and it has a higher cost.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 24, 2022 2:00 PM |
[quote]That is absolutely untrue on every conceivable level.
Hardly, but both you and R35 are entitled to your very wrong opinion.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 24, 2022 2:05 PM |
[Quote] This is just cheap journalism. Every male comedian is asked this question for a reaction.
He was probably asked became he just did a Halloween movie for Netflix.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 24, 2022 2:08 PM |
R35- No, we are angry that a small percentage of whining assholes feel they are such special , delicate little hot house flowers that the world must conform to their ridiculous demands . Ignore biology, pretend a biological male can give birth, address them as they, them, binary, everything except their damn gender, and on and on because it is endless and fucking insane. Everything offends them, especially reality and biology. Women are being raped and assaulted by male predators forcing their selves into women's private spaces, ruining women's sporting competitions because these men put on women's clothes and demand to unfairly compete with women when they have a very unfair physical advantage.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 24, 2022 2:08 PM |
Eddie Murphy lost his bid for an Oscar for "Dreamgirls" because during the Oscar campaign, "Norbit" was released, a movie that featured a loud, overbearing, obnoxious, morbidly obese black woman, unapologetically portrayed by Murphy.
Murphy got cancelled by the PC crowd.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 24, 2022 2:09 PM |
r40, grow the fuck up and stop trying to turn every thread into an anti-trans thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 24, 2022 2:11 PM |
r41, I wasn't aware that the "PC crowd" votes for Academy winners.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 24, 2022 2:12 PM |
Murphy wasn't cancelled for Norbit. Wow. You just made that whole thing up, incredible.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 24, 2022 2:12 PM |
2- But is that enough to satisfy them? Oh, hell no! Now they have the fucking audacity to actually believe that they can tell us what we are allowed to say, to think, to feel, to laugh about . Fuck you.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 24, 2022 2:13 PM |
[quote] ruining women's sporting competitions because these men put on women's clothes and demand to unfairly compete with women when they have a very unfair physical advantage.
Oh brother. *rolling eyes*
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 24, 2022 2:14 PM |
[quote] He was probably asked became he just did a Halloween movie for Netflix.
For kids. It's a cheesy kids movie, and he thinks while promoting this he has to get all high almighty about the state of the integrity of comedy? Bitch, please.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 24, 2022 2:19 PM |
R47 it's really not that serious. Marlon is entitled to his opinion and so are you.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 24, 2022 2:23 PM |
Gay people have faced “cancel culture” from the beginning and “conservatives” on this forum have agreed with it.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 24, 2022 2:27 PM |
“Eddie Murphy should lose the Oscar for doing Norbit in the same manner that a substance abuser should be put back in rehab for lapsing at their 'welcome back' party,” wrote Laremy Legel for MTV News. “It's a raw deal for Eddie because he was tremendous in Dreamgirls, but if losing the Oscar gets us out of another decade of bad choices by him, it's a price we should all be willing to pay.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 24, 2022 2:29 PM |
Wow, spot-on. I just tune-out the children.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 24, 2022 2:43 PM |
Exactly, r50. People had been complaining about Murphy's shitty movies for ages, just like they do with Adam Sandler, and as a result, both get overlooked by the Academy when they do something really good. It wasn't about "wokism" at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 24, 2022 2:49 PM |
We never let facts get in our way.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 24, 2022 2:50 PM |
...you think Marlon Wayons pays people to post about him on DL?
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 24, 2022 2:57 PM |
I remember watching Super Nanny and being shocked at the brats on there who got away with murder and their stupid parents letting them run the house.
Those kids are now grown up pulling this cancelling shit; they are as horrible as ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 24, 2022 5:34 PM |
Why do they need to "grow up," R42? It's rather telling that when someone talks about the rape of women by straight men pretending to be "women" and female athletes having their sports destroyed by men pretending to be "women" that your response is to screech about being anti trans because the fetishes of straight men must always come first, right? Fucking prick. Fuck the trans loons too. They're fucking up the gay community as well. They're a bunch of straight White people. Everyone is fucking sick of their shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 24, 2022 7:10 PM |
I loved In Living Color.
[quote]Would he say the same if Black Chicks was made depicting Black women as fat, loud and obnoxious?
Watch In Living Color. Lots of drag depicting ghetto type Black women. Does anyone remember Wanda? "I'll rock yo world".
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 24, 2022 7:14 PM |
"White Chicks" was crude, not funny.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 24, 2022 7:41 PM |
I didn't know he was still working.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 24, 2022 8:02 PM |
I have had a crush on him for probably 20 years. I think he is ridiculously hot—more so than Shawn.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 24, 2022 8:12 PM |
The people who scream about cancel culture wanted to cancel Cracker Barrel for serving vegan sausage and Walt Disney for speaking out against Ron de Santis
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 24, 2022 8:14 PM |
R57 is one of those anti-trans trolls who say that transwomen are "really gay" and that gays are being erased....but then act like they're all straight guys who want to rape women 🤔
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 24, 2022 8:15 PM |
When was anyone ever canceled for making a joke? The comedians who claim they're being canceled are more successful than ever
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 24, 2022 8:16 PM |
R65, see Exhibit A, Michael Richards.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 24, 2022 8:21 PM |
It's always easier to whine about being "cancelled" than to admit you're past your sell-by date.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 24, 2022 9:51 PM |
[quote] know Carlin did, he had that huge meltdown toward the end of his career
He did?
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 24, 2022 10:18 PM |
[quote]the wayans family is wall to wall good looking men
They seriously are. Marlon always tends to do a lot of face contortions like in Scary Movie but as soon as he relaxes his face you can plainly see he’s as good looking as his brothers.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 24, 2022 10:22 PM |
He's not wrong. My goodness, take a trip over to a few sub-Reddits to behold how a harmless off-color joke is dissected and downvoted to oblivion.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 24, 2022 11:45 PM |
r62, Marlon Wayans made me realize I was gay and there was nothing I could do about it LOL
I was speechless at 12 years old, seeing him present his round asscheeks to the audience at the VMA's in the year 2000, that shit was like lightening going through my tween body lol. I stayed up all night to see his booty again on the encore. Been obsessed with guy's asses ever since! Thanks Marlon
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 25, 2022 1:07 AM |
[Quote] My goodness, take a trip over to a few sub-Reddits to behold how a harmless off-color joke is dissected and downvoted to oblivion.
I'm on a subreddit where if you disagree with the majority on something you will be accused of gaslighting and get your comment deleted. It's fucking insane.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 25, 2022 8:19 AM |
[quote] I'm on a subreddit where if you disagree with the majority on something you will be accused of gaslighting and get your comment deleted. It's fucking insane.
And yet, you stay around?
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 25, 2022 8:41 AM |
I could really go for a wayans bro comedy in 2022. White chicks holds up very well, so does scary movie
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 25, 2022 8:50 AM |
Their brand of comedy doesn't really make me laugh, but I'll add my voice to those pointing out that the Wayan brothers are seriously HOT!
Anyone seen this clip? It's ridiculous and over the top comedic, and yet... we get a very in depth idea of how he fucks, even if it is comedic here. And some of the stuff he says... "I might've leaked in you, I don't know if I came, I leaked a little bit..." Just thinking of Marlon Wayans' precum has me producing some of my own.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 25, 2022 9:22 AM |
It's weird when I see Dataloungers complain about Reddit censorship, because every time I've given Reddit a chance and browsed the popular/hot topics, the threads are either a bunch of off-topic chatter, ESTs, or a bunch of hateful comments. The other day I went to r/nursing after the shooting at a hospital and found a thread about how much they hate dieticians. Another thread on there was a bunch of people saying they wouldn't even try to help evacuate patients during a fire because they don't get paid enough. Another thread in a different subreddit was about an expensive cocktail and everyone bitching either that the guy didn't tip enough or tipped too much.
I don't know what you guys are saying to get your posts deleted on Reddit, but it's like a more downtrodden, morose DL over there, and I can't imagine what would get deleted if "I wouldn't even save any babies if there was a fire in my hospital, just let 'em burn" doesn't get deleted.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 25, 2022 9:33 AM |
Not who you asked r68 but yes, he went off on the audience at the MGM Grand and told them he wanted them all dead by beheading, and a few days later went into rehab.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 25, 2022 9:37 AM |
I had a friend who was a gay escort from Brazil , and lived in Vegas. His best friend was a tranny. They met marlon at drais, did molly and marlon hooked up with the trans friend,
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 25, 2022 9:38 AM |
[quote] It's weird when I see Dataloungers complain about Reddit censorship,
They follow their leader's lead. During Trump's presidency, he always complained about conservative media outlets like FOX News not being loyal enough to him and his message branding (being too reluctant to deliver the lies the way he wants them to be delivered).
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 25, 2022 9:56 AM |
"What's happening now is not us being in a scared place."
You have the stupidity to say this when Covid is still an issue and Putin keeps threatening nuclear war because he's losing in the Ukraine.
You're so full of shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 25, 2022 10:27 AM |
Comedy changes with the culture. I'm tired of listening to these late middle-aged men bitch about how no one wants to laugh at their tired old shit. White Chicks was barely funny when it came out nearly twenty fucking years ago, let it go.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 25, 2022 10:48 AM |
R73 I don't stay on there. But i sometimes get notifications and check every once in a while.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 25, 2022 11:02 AM |
I'd say he throws a mean fuck.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 25, 2022 11:09 AM |
[quote]I had a friend who was a gay escort from Brazil , and lived in Vegas. His best friend was a tranny. They met marlon at drais, did molly and marlon hooked up with the trans friend,
Statistically, at least one of the Wayans Bros had to have fooled around with other mens or trans. If I had to guess Id say it'd be Marlon
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 25, 2022 11:45 AM |
R76
Some of the mods on Reddit are crazy. I was banned from one subreddit because I challenged someone who kept saying she didn't understand why strangers she met were wary of her because she was a sex worker, which we all know is just a normal job. I said it was dangerous work. I had the effrontery to tell a stripper who was complaining about her job but acting like she had no other options that I was sorry she was having a hard time but she could make other choices. Other people have complained about the same moderator.
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 25, 2022 1:08 PM |
“Monty Python” icon John Cleese similarly said that cancel culture has a “disastrous effect” on comedy, while fellow British comedian Rowan Atkinson said it’s “comedy’s job to offend” audiences one way or another. Emmy winner Jerrod Carmichael likened cancel culture to the “boogeyman” and a “ghost villain” to give “boring people something interesting to talk about.”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 25, 2022 1:10 PM |
[quote]You have the stupidity to say this when Covid is still an issue and Putin keeps threatening nuclear war because he's losing in the Ukraine.
Oh please just shut the fuck up.
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 25, 2022 1:33 PM |
I recently re-watched "Airplane" (1980) and was struck by how effortlessly diverse the cast was. Everyone got made fun of, and was funny. It was a movie everyone could laugh at together. It holds up in a way that's kind of sad, because we don't have that common bond anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 25, 2022 1:37 PM |
[quote]was struck by how effortlessly diverse the cast was. Everyone got made fun of, and was funny. It was a movie everyone could laugh at together. It holds up in a way that's kind of sad, because we don't have that common bond anymore.
I've always loved the "everyone is made fun of" type humour for this very reason.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 25, 2022 7:58 PM |
Why are labels still so important to some?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 14, 2022 2:28 PM |
