History Series / InLivingColor

** Some of the Lil Magic sketches has her StageMom's hair weave either being only halfway completed or in a didgy wig. One home movie she did where she played Helen Keller even had her accidentally knock her Mom's wig off and it to be off-kilter for the rest of the film.

* GoldDigger: Robin Givens (played by Kim Coles) while on "Love Connection" convinced Mike Tyson (played by Keenan Ivory Wayans) to buy her a emerald, ruby, and sapphire necklace and a car on their first date.

* NoSympathy: In a skit for ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', Jay holds up two newspaper headlines featuring many people killed (which is in contrast to the more light-hearted and goofy headlines of the real show). The first one, which happened at a post office, has him quip that the gunman must've been desperate for the popular and difficult-to-find (at the time) Elvis stamp. The second one, where four security guards were killed in a robbery, he jokes that it was well worth the 3.85 they were earning an hour.

A half-hour sketch comedy show that aired on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1990 to 1994, created by Creator/KeenenIvoryWayans and starring several of his brothers ({{Creator/Damon|Wayans}}, {{Creator/Shawn|Wayans}}, and {{Creator/Marlon|Wayans}}) and one sister ({{Creator/Kim|Wayans}}). The series is largely known as the launching pad for the careers of the Wayans family, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/DavidAlanGrier, and Creator/TommyDavidson -- as well as Creator/JenniferLopez and Carrie Ann Inaba, who were part of the show's "Fly Girl" dance troupe.

** One sketch had a DoggedNiceGuy trying to get with a lady played by Music/QueenLatifah. In the end, she acquiesces to a date, then pulls out a gun and says that she and her friends have to [[BankRobbery stop by]] [[Film/SetItOff the bank]] first.

* BlackComedy: Some sketches fall into this category.
* BlackJezebelStereotype: PlayedForLaughs in the "Wrath of Farrakhan" skit, where Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan beams aboard the Starship Enterprise from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and rallies the crewmembers against Captain Kirk. In particular, he claims that Nyota Uhura has never been allowed to do anything of note and, emboldened by his words, she then angrily berates Kirk for not allowing her to contribute anything to the crew, other than occasionally serving as his "Chocolate fantasy".
* BlackSheep: Subverted in the Cousin Horsie--er, Elsie sketches. While it's obvious that she's greatly disliked by her relatives due to her unfiltered personality, revolting manners, unattractiveness and [[ExtremeOmnisexual being oversexualized with men, women and even the dead,]] it ultimately comes out that she's not related to any of her victims; she's just a nosy leech.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Keenan's Arsenio Hall does this repeatedly, especially in interviewing David Alan Grier's Marion Barry: he confuses his being booked (as in arrested and arraigned) as ''writing'' a book, vaguely expresses jealousy at people "following him around" after the press learning of said arrest, believed that the arrest video was a "'movie''', and when he played the video against Barry's wishes and the mayor cried that he ruined him, he thinks that him [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing his finger at him in anger]] is him "striving to be number one".

The show is also notable for being the reason the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague books a high profile musical act for the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime show. During Super Bowl XXVI on CBS in 1992, Fox decided to broadcast a special live episode of ''In Living Color!'' at halftime so viewers would have something to watch other than the then-bland halftime shows consisting of marching bands and pageants. The stunt worked and the episode drew in 22 million viewers while also causing the second half of the Super Bowl to lose 10 Nielsen ratings points. Thus, the NFL began booking music stars to perform, starting with Music/MichaelJackson the next year, to keep as many viewers glued to the game as possible.

* TheNineties: A lot of early rap talent appears, and many of the sketches reflect then-current news and pop culture. Unless you lived through the 1990s, you'll definitely have to Wikipedia some of the references -- mostly the political stuff, as most of the movie and music parodies remains somewhat familiar to people these days.

Unfortunately, the edgy comedy of the series -- not only its raunchiness but sometimes cutting racial satire -- eventually brought down the wrath of network executives who regarded it as TooHotForTV, and the Wayans family ended up leaving the series over the course of the fourth season. Season Five still had Carrey, Grier, Foxx and Davidson, but the quality suffered for the absence of many of the recurring characters (not only those the Wayans played but Carrey's, as he was making fewer appearances) while five new cast members[[note]]Jay Leggett, Reggie [=McFadden=], Carol Rosenthal, Marc Wilmore, and Anne-Marie Johnson. Despite his appearances in some episodes, Creator/ChrisRock was never a cast member during ''In Living Color'''s final season. He was like Creator/SteveMartin on ''SNL'' in that he appeared a lot as a guest star[[/note]] didn't connect with audiences. The show ultimately was cancelled, freeing the breakout stars to go on to varying degrees of success in film, TV, and stand-up comedy. [[{{Revival}} It was scheduled to be revived with a new cast]] in 2012, but due to negative reception from focus groups and executives over the new pilot the project was shelved.

* FakeHairDrama: One sketch had a DeconstructiveParody of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Unfortunately, the Princess in this story's hair wasn't real, leading to the Prince falling and hurting himself when he tried to climb it and [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike she getting mad at him for ripping her hair out.]]

-->'''Clerk:''' [[FunnyForeigner Meddy Chrismas,]] mother--''*beep-beep*!''