Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
Damon Wayans
Sign in to saveAlso known as Damon Kyle Wayans, Sr.
American comedian, writer, and actor (born 1960)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Celtic Pride
- Lethal weapon
- Bootleg
- Red hats
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Harlem, New York, USA
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (born September 4, 1960) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He's best know for his role as Michael Kyle on the sitcom My Wife and Kids as well as his comedic work on In Living Color. He performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year long stint on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. His true breakthrough, however, came…
Known for
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
- Poppa's House — Damon 'Poppa' Fulton2024
- Hot Ones Versus — Self2024
- Cinnamon — Wally2023
- Sherri — Self - Guest2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes — Willis Drummond2021
- The Comedy Store — Self2020
- Happy Together — Mike2018
- Lethal Weapon — Roger Murtaugh2016
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1960
Member of
- Saturday Night Live1985–1986
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 118
- Total plays
- 609
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Damon+Wayans">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- The Genome Sequence of
<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2000 · cited 4,818x
- Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines
· 2010 · cited 3,946x
- The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics
· 2009 · cited 3,525x
- Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
· 2022 · cited 2,673x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “So I got diagnosed with diabetes about 10 years ago. And so I started growing fresh vegetables. I only eat my vegetables”
- “I work out lifting heavier weights because that’s, you know, that’s what the scientists say, really help you burn the sugar before you burn the fat and I’ve gotten control over my diabetes”
- “I feel like Dave freed the slaves. The comedians, we were slaves to PC [politically correct] culture and he just, you know, as an artist he’s Van Gogh. Cut his ear off, he’s trying to tell us it’s OK. I just feel like he’s saying, ‘All that I have, I’m not afraid to lose it for the sake of freedom of speech. You can’t edit yourself. Comedians, we’re like…Mercedes makes a great car. But they gotta crash a lot of them before they perfect it”
- “I can’t speak about the content of the show but what I say is, there is a bigger conversation we need to have. Someone needs to look us in the eye and say, ‘You’re no longer free in this country. You’re not free to say what you want, you say what we want you to say. Otherwise we will cancel you.’ That’s the discussion we should have”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Damon Kyle Wayans , ( 1960-09-04 ) September 4, 1960 (age 65) , New York City, U.S.
- Spouse
- Lisa Thorner ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2000 )
- Children
- 4, including Damon Wayans Jr.
- Relatives
- Dwayne Wayans (brother) Keenen Ivory Wayans (brother) Kim Wayans (sister) Shawn Wayans (brother) Marlon Wayans (brother) Damon Wayans Jr. (son)
- Family
- Wayans family
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Medium
- Film stand-up television
- Genres
- Observational comedy black comedy political satire
- Subjects
- Family marriage American politics everyday life
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kyle
- Family name
- Wayans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Child
- Damon Wayans Jr.
- Sibling
- Shawn Wayans
- Occupation
- television producer
- Educated at
- New York Film Academy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- In Living Color
- Family
- Wayans family
- Hair colour
- bonnet
- Genre
- black comedy
- Main subject
- everyday life
- Image
- Damon Wayans.JPG
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1960-09-04
- Commons category
- Damon Wayans
- name in native language
- Damon Kyle Wayans
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- birth name
- Damon Kyle Wayans
- social media followers
- 343970
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- IPA transcription
- /ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (/ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/ DAY-mən WAY-ənz; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. A member of the Wayans family of entertainers, Damon performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a brief stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He later joined his family on Fox's sketch comedy show In Living Color (1990–1992), and wrote and performed on his own animated series Waynehead (1996–1997) and live-action series Damon (1998). Since then, he has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including Mo' Money, The Last Boy Scout, Major Payne, Bulletproof, and the sitcoms My Wife and Kids and Poppa's House, the latter featuring his son Damon Wayans Jr. From 2016 to 2019, he starred as Roger Murtaugh in the Fox television series Lethal Weapon.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Damon Wayans” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.