Damon Wayans On ‘SNL’ Sketch That Got Him Fired: “I Snapped, I Just Did Not Care”
deadline.comDamon Wayans is opening up about his short stint on Saturday Night Live and the sketch that got him fired from the NBC late-night sketch show.
The actor appears on Peacock’s docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, discussing his time on the comedy show. “Yeah, I got fired.
We gonna talk about it,” Wayans says in the fourth episode of the series titled “Season 11: The Weird Year.” Wayans said he felt he was “born to be on Saturday Night Live” and had already been working on characters that would later become part of his sketch show In Living Color.
When Wayans joined SNL, he didn’t have much experience on screen, except for a role in Beverly Hills Cop alongside Eddie Murphy who shared some advice after his exit from the sketch show. “Eddie’s advice to me was, ‘Write your own sketches.
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