Marlon Wayans Says Other People Taking Over the ‘Scary Movie’ Franchise Was Like ‘Watching Your Child Become a Crackhead’
You’ve also taken that trauma toward your standup, which is more and more personal every year. You’re now touring a special about one of your kids, who transitioned. Yeah. But it’s not their transition. It was my transition going from denial to acceptance and the five stages of grief that I went through in order to get there. See, it doesn’t sound like a comedy. It doesn’t. But I put dramatic structure under my comedies because as a writer, that’s what I’ve learned from writing. Every comedy I write has some kind of dramatic structure. So you have that dramatic structure and for me, that’s the heart and it’s like a great sitcom. In every great sitcom, 22 minutes long, there’s like a minute of heart. In every great special, I try to go, I need two minutes of heart. Every time I work it, I find something new. I recently had Dave Chappelle come and he saw it when I was in Dayton. He goes, “Man, man, it’s powerful. It’s powerful, man.” And he’s …
