Damon Wayans has been entertaining us
as a stand-up comic, writer, actor, and producer for over 30 years.
He started his career in the early 1980's but it was when him and his
brothers created the show “In Living Color” that Damon Wayans was
thrust into the spotlight. It was on that show that Mr. Wayans was
free to show his comic talents with characters like “Homey D.
Clown, Head Detective, Handi-man, Reverend Ed Cash, and more. After
that show ended he went on to star in several movies and television
shows that he usually co-wrote with his brothers.
Damon Wayans had
already had a good stand-up career going but it was in 1984 that he
had his first big break. That year Eddie Murphy gave him a small role
in the movie “Beverly Hills Cop”. In the movie Mr. Wayans played
a worker at the Beverly Hills hotel that lets Eddie Murphy's
character Axel Foley have a few bananas, off of a food cart, that
Detective Foley used to stick in the tail pipe of the police officers
sent to drive him out of town.
After going to a
tech show and getting several business cards Mr. Wayans saw a need
for an app. He formed a company with some developers to create “Flick
dat” as a way to create business cards, that can have embedded
video, and share thm on your smartphones. His company also has an app
called “Diddeo” that turns your smartphone into a editing studio.
Damon Wayans has
four children from his 16 year marriage to Lisa Thorner that ended in
2000. Two sons, Damn Jr. and Michael, and two daughters, Cara Mia
and Kyla. As of 2014 Mr. Wayans is also a grandfather to Ava Marie
Jean the daughter of Michael and his girlfriend Vanessa.
In
2013 Mr. Wayans was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. After the
diagnosis he was forced to cancel some of his tour dates when he was
told not to fly. Since the diagnosis he has also had to make some
other changes to his life. One of those changes was beginning a paleo
diet to reduce his sugar intake. “No
fruit, alcohol, soda, cake,” he says. He was off insulin within a
month.
“I
honestly don’t know if (my doctors) were impressed,” Wayans says.
“I was at the hospital, and they said, ‘Don’t worry about
nothing. You can still eat whatever you want, just take your
insulin.’ I’m from the streets of New York. I know a drug deal
when I hear one.”
In 2010 he wrote a fictional novel about a
woman who's life is changed for the better when the Red-Hat Society,
a real women's organization, come to her aide. The book has several
good reviews including one by a lady of the real Red-Hat Society.
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