FOX to revive "IN LIVING COLOR"

[KeithE4]

I just hope this doesn't turn out like NBC's attempt to bring back Laugh-in.

Laugh-In was a product of and about the late '60s. In Living Color was its equivalent in the early '90s.

Remakes/rehashes don't work well - just hop in your time machine, go back to 1966, and ask Milton Berle, a relic of the late '40s who was better as a guest villain on Batman than on his own show that year.

Times change, and some shows are strictly of their own time. Shows like Laugh-In, In Living Color, All In The Family, and Leave It To Beaver are stuck in their respective eras and really can't be translated or updated to 2011 standards and tastes. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and The Andy Griffith Show - shows with antiquated settings and production values - are still funny 50-60 years later. They and their humor stood the test of time.

 

[Nate Wesley]

I don't agree when people say 'SNL sucks' or 'MadTV sucks' in reference to the show as a whole. Individual sketches are very hit-or-miss, and you can't predict which sketch or entertainer will click with audiences. (There would be plenty here who'd fight a child of the 90s for saying Jim Belushi was 'just a fat stoner', or worse--that Seth Meyers was funnier.) Paint-by-numbers 'funny' is what most network [and now, basic cable] sitcoms are for. Sketch shows are supposed to take more comical risks, and some of them don't work. But everyone remembers the ones that do.

Speaking of cable: If In Living Color reboot does well enough to get picked up, Wayans would be smart to insist that its a TV-MA comedy on FX. He'd get the creative freedom he desires, and there'd be less of a demand of a large audience to be profitable.

 

[vchimpanzee]

My Network showed some reruns a few years back. I actually enjoyed them. I didn't want to watch the show when it was first on.

They introduced this new dancer named Jennifer Lopez in one of those episodes. She was really good. And hot-looking. Who knew she could also sing and act?

In case you were pretending to be unfamiliar with her, I would suggest you be honest next time.

I'm pointing out how it must have been back then when no one knew who she was. In a way I guess I was pretending that. What would it have been like, knowing her history, to see how she started out?