Marlon Wayans says he had $700 in the bank and $900 rent before creating The Wayans Bros
“When we left In Living Color, I had $700 in the bank and $900 rent. I was broke and my brother Shawn was looking at me like, ‘What are we going to do now?’”
“Shawn was depressed. He'd sit in a dark room and play Christmas music because Christmas was a happy time for him”
“We always had a bottle of Diet Pepsi and I would sit there like we did on In Living Color”
“One day he came out of the room and said, ‘What are you doing, stupid?’”
“I said, ‘I'm working on our TV show’”
“The first thing he read was, ‘Interior. Outside’”
“He said, ‘Stupid, how do you have interior outside?’”
“And we sat down and created The Wayans Bros”