What Happened To This Banned In Living Color Skit? - CH News
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- comedyhype.com/ - In Living Color in it's prime would be known for taking comedy to the edge with it's unapologetic style. What some may not have known is one of their skits crossed the line so bad that it ended up being banned. Here's what took place with their Bolt 45 skit which featured Keenan Ivory Wayans, Kim Coles, and David Alan Grier. Written by @Mr.DomicSmith Instagram: @ComedyHype & Twitter: @ComedyHype_
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The fact that the sketch survived that once in a lifetime airing and is available in 2021 is amazing.
Very true
I don’t think things are ever deleted in Hollyweird. There’s always a smart person that makes copies! I guess it’s Screenshots or “receipts” now. 🤣
You're right and please check out TH-cam channel Isaiah Flagler's Real Talk
In Living Color was amazing ....HOW YA LIVIN' !!!!!!!!!
@@LilithTheAquarian369 there are thousands of lost movies and tv shows. Back when things were on actual film tape, film tape was expensive. So they would re-use tape, deleting the past recordings.
Thank you people who recorded tv shows on VHS🙌🏽
How much is it worth though the only copy in existence
Thank those of us even more, who recorded them on a Super VHS deck!
Yes thank u to the person who taped that
did that on the regular!
@@BlondieSL I have a D-VHS VCR, but it is the first model without the digital tuner. The kind with the digital tuners goe for a great amount on Ebay! Mine alone is worth $1K+!
Any S-VHS VCR with a TBC is worth at least $500 on the market (especially JVC or Mitsubishi) and if you wanted to sell, I would at least keep one since no one more VCRs are being made and what is out there is all that there is! I still have my tape collection and I am putting them back on disk - but this time uncompressed (no MPEG), and the quality does indeed hold more info.
Kim Coles is hilarious “I’m a lady can I get a paper bag and a straw” I didn’t get the joke as a kid but I remember my dad losing it.
Lol facts I was only 10-11 if it came out in 1990. My moms was cracking up too because she liked Billie Dee and thought it was hilarious with portraying him.
Jason Smith I dont get it. Will you explain please?
@Heywood Jablowme thank you.
@George Jackson lmao
Yup, I've been watching some old Rodney Dangerfield shows with my dad...now that I'm 46...we can laugh together. 🤣
That leg flip had me rollin!!! 😭😭😭
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I still watch In Living Color reruns. It’s still funny to this day and in my opinion waaay funnier than Saturday Night Live. ❤️
Right on, sister
No lie there !!
Soooo much funnier❤❤
Keenan off da hook for dat!! 😂😂😂
It's not your opinion dear, those are straight facts 💯💯💯!!!
Crazy because I'm 38 years old and I can clearly remember watching that episode.
I’m 31 and I remember watching this too
@@bookoo1234
The thing is though this episode aired in 1990. So if you're 31 now that means you would've literally been a baby 🍼 when this aired. And on top of that it only aired that one time.
I'm 39 I remember Watchin it too. I was in middle school at the time.
@@longbeachmaumba7059 my nigga was watchn from the womb 😂😂😂
@@KOVIDGOON
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In Living Color, Martin and Living Single put FOX on the map now they act as if it never happened .
Got that Right !!things have changed look at Cardi B an Megan the Stalin all freaked out ...your kids can't watch them but they can watch in living color not a problem they didn't say BAD WORDS I THOUGHT OF IT AS A FAMILY SHOW ....nice dancing music no profanity 🤔o an now things are a problem 🤔
Exactly! Most would say, Living Single! How and Why? Here's my answer to their how and why. I learnt a couple months ago Friends was NBC answer to the new Hit Show on Fox called Living Single. It's amazing what we learn decades later
Actually, The Simpsons did... it was the longest running sitcom of all time and held the #1 spot many times, trading back and forth with The Cosby Show.
@@KtotheG Some would say Married With Children and the Tracy Ullman show of which the Simpsons spun off from .
Roc! Don't forget Roc New York Undercover too
Can we all take a moment to acknowledge how criminally underrated In Living Color is, in the history of TV sketch comedy?
I mean, that show was a BEAST! The sketches, the stars is made, it should be talked about WAY more these days.
Keenan & his brothers were genius writers & ALL the performers on that show were outstanding! I look back now & they had VISION as comedic artists...SALUTE!!!
Paul Mooney wrote those comedy sketches.
How did the wayans get into show biz they never really told they story were they screenwriters or go to school for that
Yeah I'm gonna get you Sucka is a huge hit.
True
@@stayfocused1661 they all wore a dress yo. even jaime foxx.
The sad thing is if this sketch was on Family Guy today no one would say anything and FOX wouldn't care
You're right. Family Guy has gotten away with WAY worse than this
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that seems to feel this way... Family Guy at this point has pushed thr envelope WAYYYYYY further than any In Living Color sketch
excellent point.
They let animated shows get away with a lot more than live action shows.
Facts
What’s sad is we will never see a tv show like this again
Its why I ran out and bought a copy of Blazing Saddles as soon as Obama was prez. Lots of things would never make it today.
Tracy Ullman show, which led to the Simpsons, Martin, In Loving Color, and Married With Children is what put Fox on the map.
"Here's the skit" proceeds talking for the next 5 min without showing the skit.
fax!! dude even said the same shit like 3 times.. and wont shut the fuck up and play the skit.
Otherwise YT wouldn't let this air.
Interesting they didn't want to share such a "common'' thing in hollywood during the time. They didn't have a problem doing it...just didn't want it satirized. .
RIGHT???
Wow. You betta watch too back. That might be some dudes hiding in your 🌳, bushes, repair trucks that don't move in your neighborhood. 🤣🤣🤣
The actual context is far too intricate to fit into a MeToo bleep.
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Facts!
In Living Color was the show that everyone rushed home to watch and laughed about it the next day at work. 👍🙂😁
I wasn't so lucky. I only got to see it in the barracks on base when the show was new. If we had free time back then we got the hell out of our area and drank beer at the bowling alley or went into town as our tension was rising for the first Gulf War that we thought was going to be a tough ground combat situation. If we only knew I'd probably not be as grey.
That Farrakhan on that Star Trek ship was hilarious
Was one of the funniest skits EVER!!!
It's moments like this when you realize how much things have changed and not necessarily for the good either. We need more raw authentic Black sitcoms...Definitely true or 100% true?
100% True
We can always use more but between what Tyler Perry, Kenya Barris, Oprah and others are already producing, we've come a lonnng way since Good Times and the Cosby Show. We somehow eventually told ourselves those weren't real and raw enough too.
Yup how things CHANGED but really stayed the SAME ....HMMM
I'm not for banning anything. Turning the channel should be the only censor. I ain't seeing now rape is funny though.
100% true.
It's not a coincidence that In Living Color and Mad TV has the best and riskiest comedy skits ,but both eventually got shut down with bland SNL still getting airplay.
Yep
Mad tv Christmas specials was the best with the rudolph cartoon..
Agree
True
I can't believe SNL and Simpsons are still being dragged out onto the air. In their prime, the shows were funny. Now, they are sad and pathetic.
MAN! I wish Netflix was around then. In Living Color would still be on the air.
It's on some cable channels right now. Reruns of course!
If this were originally on Netflix this skit would not exist anymore, it would have been wiped from history and nobody would have a physical VHS copy of it.
Taking the VCR apart to clean it, or turning the nob on the TV to make channel show better, man time has changed, I'm proud to be apart of that Era
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AHHH... the VHS tape days! 😁👍🏾💯📼
Right... I miss messing with the tracking button getting it just right, but when that auto tracking came it out was over for the game😂😂😂.. Ahhhh the Good old day's take *Take me back💯✔🍾✔😷
Don't remember those days
@@Jhoffa22_ I'm right there with you!
My teenage and young adult days in the mid-1980s to the late-1990s
Bolt 45, Colt 45's blood cousin.
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@Guest List . I am 55 years old and have never heard of the word "blood " used to describe another person
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They "the system couldn't handle the truth", and we blacks couldn't either.
Contrived Controversy cc33
This show was and still is GOLD.
Going to be hard to beat this one.
It's funny how they banned this skit but showed Married With Children for a decade even though women were boycotting them
But date rape being funny? Nah.
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Agree.
@@MJ-hd7nr in the "context" of how living color did it I found it funny. I'm gen x tho we all had thicker skin.
@@HipHopBeatSource facts 💯
1990 i was 10. How the hell did i get old so quick
Easy......YOU LIVED 😊😊
Facts!!
Chile please. I was 20 years old!!! I'm old.
You kids🤣 Hell I was 32! Still kickin just not quite as high😏😁
I was just born in 1990 now I'm 30 going on 31
Never knew that episode was banned! I saw it as a kid when it aired originally, my family taped that show religiously. Rape isn't funny...but that sketch WAS funny...the world is a dark place find the humor where you can even if it's dark humore
The point was to reveal what wasn't being communicated in the real commercials... it was poking fun at the absurdity of such an ad that would glamourize malt liquor drinking.
I always felt Billy Dee was too classy to be doing a malt liquor commercial champagne maybe or wine but not malt liquor
@@jimmiesmith5811 Money talks
@@jimmiesmith5811 Unfortunately, those enterprises are very "conservative".
Not the episode the sketch got banned
I remember watching the "Bolt 45" sketch when it was originally aired. It was funny AF then, and it's still funny AF. The only real creepy moment in the whole sketch was the moment he threw her leg over. If they had left that one move out, the censors may have thought about it, but there were so many other pressing-up-to-the-line-but-not-quite-crossing-it moments on that show, it would have just rolled through with the rest.
Good report, a reminder of how cutting-edge the show "In Living Color" was back then to reveal unethical sketches 30-years later and STILL be controversial. Thumbs up.
The better question is “what happened to In Living Color” cause it got “whitewashed” and went bland!
They said he tried to bring it back. But the network were some tightasses about what he could put out there.
@@TheConnonedrum but eventually we got Jackass, Ridiculousness, and The Tom Green Show
@@joemomma3208 Comedy Hype actually did an awesome documentary on what happened to In Living Color and the Wayne’s Brothers. It’s a great watch check it out.
@@That-Google-Guy thanks bruh I will do that 👊🏽
They actually did one on In Living Color like 3 months back
This skit was hilarious the "I'm a lady and asked for a bag and a straw"?😂Malt liqueur is so disgusting!🤢
Yes it is. I got an instant headache the one time I tried it.
Watch out I'm gonna git you suka. Cosby nite cap for you
When comedy was comedy. Antoine's Pickle Jar. Laughed so hard I pisst-mi-self.
Lol, remember....seventy five cents....Good Lawwd!
I kind of remember that airing. They eventually aired that skit that was supposed to be aired too. In Living Color was ground breaking. There is no match for it, even now. I wouldn't be afraid to bet that if the reruns were to return to network tv, they'd have a ratings boom.
Funny, that this show was definitely before it's time because honestly nothing is not off limits in television anymore.
It was one of the greatest shows of all time not only the 90s
Before its time means it felt outdated. You mean ahead of its time.
Yep
The Stuff Family Guy and South Park do Today could easily get canceled back then..
Sad that gold skits like those are cancelled but netflex can exploit the sexualization of children. Disgusting.
I loved that show, it was so funny but, I absolutely agree with the networks decision that specific episode should not have been aired. It went a little too far left at the end. It was funny without that ending.There are just some things that shouldn’t be exploited for laughs. I still think it is a hilarious show and I still watch reruns :-)
I think Keenan was trying to make a point. Some sketches are used to illustrate horrible reality within an humorous setting to bring light to things that are ignored. No one was speaking to how Colt 45 was influencing a generation of people to think that drinking malt liquor meant a classy life when in reality they're getting the woman drunk and doing exactly what Keenan exposed. Seems to me the uproar should have been what he exposed which is the exploitation of drunk women by smooth talking men.
Shut up and have a sense of humor.
You are right it should have been banned
I'm officially old because I remember seeing this show as a kid. When TV was life and we had no cell phones or Internet. Damn I miss the 90s
Had beepers tho pagers 📟
They should un-ban all hidden sketches after 30 years have passed.
Exactly on DVD release or something now i see why Keenan left due to reruns without his permission
The cast of that show were pure magic together.
I think Keenan was a genius and made the Bolt 45 sketch on purpose so every other sketch would look tame by comparison. he knew how to pick his battles alright.
Hmmm never thought about that and it’s genius. 👌
In Living Color and Martin were shows we use to come in to watch. We didn't want to miss an episode. We use to talk about the episodes the next day at school....Aww, especially when In Living Color did Homey Clown and Fire Marshall Bill. 😂
STILL thee FUNNIEST Family in Hollywood!! ❤😂😂
TRUTH
The GOAT of sketch comedy shows.
I taped the entire first season because I feared they would cancel and not rerun episodes.
Do you still have the tapes?
I watched In Living Color feverishly as a young kid. This show was and still is incredibly funny and equally important.
I had taped nearly every episode back in the day. Unfortunately, they are long gone.
I'm Bolt 45 and I approve this message.
So did Billy's parents!
Billy D. Williams = William D. Williams.
They must've been sipping the 'sips' when he was born.
Man I remember seeing the original version on TV. All I remember is gasping as a young girl, God I'm old now🤣
I love this channel y’all stay giving us history about behind the scenes stories of our comedians
In Living Color was and still funny as hell, THE WHOLE SERIES
I've always loved In Living Color, they were never afraid to push the limits and spared No One.
CH, I can't wait until you talked about what happened to the Richard Gere joke from Men On...Football sketch.
It was cut out after one airing.
I was wondering about that too and the Joe Namath part
What happened?
@@tywanjames4427 th-cam.com/video/2OKwRsnWO84/w-d-xo.html
Blaine (Damon Wayans) called Richard Gere's wife,"a gerbil in a wedding dress".
I am sure it offended Richard and/or his wife.
@@kenterminateddq5311 thanks, that was priceless 😂😂😂😭😭💀
was it a Super Bowl show? I think I remember them going HAM cuz it was live
I remember this episode very well, I used to watch this every Sunday night at 8pm....one of my all time favorite shows for sure...
😂🤣😂🤣😂 dang you even remember the time! I remember it came on Sunday nights, but not the time.....
Hahaha we still have it on 📼, no youtube or pandora back in the day my folks over 40 remember recording shows and waiting by the raidio to hit record "baby got back" hopefully you got the regular version and not the 2 second one wit the radio dude cuttin in n messing shit up!🤣
I saw this when it first aired on network. Wow.
You know you old when you seen the actual skit and find out years later it was banned.
When he flipped that leg over 💀💀😂😂
It's called Rape
@@cecegiles4583 its the power of bolt 45
Wooooooo! (Ric Flair voice)
@@cecegiles4583 😏
In the 80s my little brother and I used to love Sunday nights. Parker Lewis Cant Lose, The Simpsons, In Living Color, and Married With Children all right in a row. 2 hours of killer comedy.
That’s what made it great Sunday nights watching Fox and Monday morning talking about it in school.
I remember me and my grandmother watching in living color in the early 90s she was an old lady at the time but she couldn’t stop laughing at that show it was so good
Thank you I never seen this particular episode of the show but always wondered why they (ILC) out of all shows aren't replayed.
I did see the original broadcast episode, but not surprised it was cut from reruns. It got past the network censors once somehow, we got our yuks, but it was over the cliff for network content.
That show was hilarious. From a time when everyone wasn't so sensitive.
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Now, the reprobate minded Left has banned comedy as too offensive; unless of course, it's against President Trump, Christians, or God fearing Jews...............
These guy's were awesome 👌. It didn't matter what color skin you had, you were going to get picked on whatever you were doing at the time that show came on you stopped what you were doing and watched it. 😀
I'd say the concern at the time was more that the network didn't want Colt 45 and/or Billy Dee Williams coming after them with lawyers.
Key & Peele did their Baby It's Cold Outside sketch just a few years ago.
How dare you imply that people are too sensitive now. I demand an apology or you will be canceled!
Aw The 90’s
Now aka
“The good ole days”
Pushing the envelope was Keenan's objective when In Living Color premiered. Everytime. I still have that copy on VHS. Lol
Thanks for talking over it and never once showing the sketch on it's own, truly wonderful, because I need some guy talking over everything and explaining to me rather than just letting the content speak for itself
I remember watching it when it originally aired. Iirc, I may have it on VHS as well. If I come across it, I will be sure to upload it.
I remember watching that episode...
Me too
I remember this episode!!! I had NO IDEA all this was going on with this skit!!!! It was HILARIOUS!!!! Kim Coles is hilarious “I’m a lady can I get a paper bag and a straw” Had me rolling... & I wasn't grown.
My parents hated me watching this show in the 90s, im glad I did. I credit this show to my current sense of humor
This was the best show on tv to us when we were kids.
I gotta agree. I luv “in living color” but that sketch is rough at the end. Not a good sketch for network tv. Cable, like hbo would be fine. More adult eyes.
What about all of the things Married With Children showed? MWC got a little more raw with it than ILC. We both know why MWC was able to but that sketch was hardly rough compared to what was already on TV at the time.
My father recorded every episode of in living color so there is another copy of that episode and I remember it vividly
Woow that's crazy yo! I somewhat remember that skit now! 🤣🤣🤣 In Livin Color was the show back in the day! And kudos to whoever recorded that skit on VHS 😎👍👍Bolt 45 🤣🤦♂️
The name 'Colt 45' could never be sophisticated. Show u how much they think of the intelligence of their target audience.
the simpsons, inside herman's head, married with children in living colour, x-files= pretty good sunday night viewing.
I remember this skit; I was a religious In Living Color watcher BITD. One of the best sketch comedy shows EVER.
My grandma would drink her Old Milwaukee beer in public in a paper bag with straw.
I remembered this. It was funny as hell. My how times have changed
I saw that sketch. It was crazy, but it's nothing compared to shows like Family Guy. They have beastiality.
Family Guy writers have no filter.
I dunno, that lady was a bit of a beast, lol
I remember that skit. Keenan's Billy Dee Williams was on point. I thought it was funny back then! Great show! 😂
I watched the marathon on tv one last night and laughed so much 😂 then got a notification for the Colt commercial on youtube lol
I think all of us kids from the 90s show this episode
I remember this, wild that it was accidentally aired. Yeah, the idea that the woman is passed out and could no way consent to anything was not funny to me then or now. Although it did not keep me from watching the show or any of their movies the Wayans family’s made.
I Love in living color. I've watched every episode numerous times. One of the few-tv-shows, that could actually make me Laugh-out-Loud. They pushed the envelope to unchartered waters. No holds barred Comedy. I still watch it in 2021. This show was Genius. oNe LovE from NYC
This was well done. I watched the whole thing.
But they'll air programs like "dating naked", love and hip hop", "naked and afraid",
"rupauls drag race", and show gay and lesbian couples and any and everything else abominable 😒.
U can easily substitute Bill Cosby for that Billy D skit
The irony is that they actually did a Cobsy skit. Jamie Foxx played Bill Cosby advertising condoms
One time years ago my band was playing in Wilmington NC and I left the show with a chick and woke up the next day and my band mates had left me there since they didn't know where I was and thought I probably got arrested. Anyway when I finally got to talk to them they told me I could catch a ride home with the drummer's cousin's roommate that was going to college there in 2 days. I spent those 2 days hanging out with some homeless guys and drinking Colt 45 in the 45oz bottles. It was one of the funnest times of my life. TD and Jay if you guys are out there I hope life has been good to you.
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I think they were referring to the hairstyle
@@MJ-hd7nr perhaps. I have a knee jerk reaction to In Living Color. Never enjoyed the portrayal of Black Women. To this day I dislike the Wanda Character. On the other hand u enjoyed Shenaynay on Martin
Ah, In Living Color.... I loved this show, it takes you back to a time when jim carrey was actually funny.
JIM CARREY USE TO ACF HIS A**** OFF.
In the 1990's when drinking Malt Liquor was the "it" thing to do in the hoods and ghettos across America me and my brother KNEW this was some type of gov't trick to further harm black people, so we never drank any malt liquors EVER (and we were 10000000% correct as we all know) . One day in the mid 90's a friend of mind who's father worked at Anheuser-Busch invited me and my brother to the processing plant near the town we lived in to see how beer (Budweiser, Michelob and Bud Light) were made which was fascinating THEN he told us the waste residue that is normally discarded was SOLD to makers of Malt Liquor brands (he did not say what specific brands) to make Malt Liquor. Keep in mind this older white gentleman TOLD me and my brother (both young black men at the time) big name beer makers were selling their discard/waste by product to companies that make malt liquors and this was horrible and specifically targeted the black community. He said to me and my brother ask your self why for $2.00 (back then) you can by 64oz of beer and why was and still today is Malt Liquor MOSTLY and ONLY in MOST cases sold in black and brown neighborhoods ONLY. I wish our black people would WAKE UP and stop being the test mice and rats for this gov't.
If I was an exec, I wouldn't care if she was put onto the table, but I would be mad sweating with the added leg swivel and the fact he leaned over her afterwards
Pill Cosby: "I could've used a Colt45 the whole time instead of putting the pills in the people's chocolate"
Oooh, Pill Cosby!!😃
I don't care how controversial that is. it's still fucking hilarious.
ILC was years ahead of it's time, brilliant show we need this kind of fearless comedy more than ever here in February 2021...........where is Bill Hicks???
Colt 45 DOES get the party going! I ain't lying 👍🏽🤣🤣
The irony is his son was later on a Fox series, which ran for 8 seasons.
You mean Damon Wayans son, Damon Wayans Jr.? I know he was on New Girl on Fox.
I can see why they banned this skit...
That sketch was hilarious! I can't believe there are no other unofficial copies around.
Lolol "May I PLEASE have a paper bag and a straw" 🤣🤣🤣
I remember this episode, I understand why it was cut.
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Yeah I agree, it was a bit too far, far as comedy goes.. I love Dark Comedy but yeah that was too far..
Yeah. I am all for dark humor but that is a bit too much for me.
Just shows how Pure Evil "HELLYWOOD" really is.
Because they didn't want a date rape sketch on tv?