He was the Phil Hartman of Living Color. You could go to him for any character and he would nail it. But he never took the spotlight like Wayans Brothers or Jim Carrey. He just came in an slayed.
any BLANKMAN fans here? i loved that film and he was great in living colour, one of the best things about that show was David. he was also great in tales from the hood and the woodsman
Wow. He always plays the zany screwball kind of guy so I assumed that's how he was in real life, but he's kind of a nerd. And I mean that as a compliment.
It's funny how there's a John Madden in almost every circle lol I'm an NHL guy and when I hear the name John Madden, I think of the defensive centre who (mainly) played for the New Jersey Devils.
Why is DAG looking like Uncle Remus?? I know they've been remaking everything under the goddamn sun, but is song of the South next too the jungle book?
I went looking for the video of Song of the South when my son was young ( it would have been on VHS). I wanted him to hear those stories, which are actually old African folk tales. I was given a bit of a sideways glance and then told that Disney never released them because they were considered to be racist. A great pity, I think, given their origins. I thought a lot about how this perception came about. There is the story, of course, about the tar baby. That phrase had been used as a racist insult, but in the story it was a model of a baby made out of tar, nothing more. It was not racist in the movie and it is right out of the book. Now Harris, who wrote the book was white and, for all I know, he may have been making a racist commentary, but I don't read it like that. I think the whole thing is a shame.
