The very funny and now clean shaven David Alan Grier who made his on screen debut like so many others in Keenen Ivory Wayans ‘ In Living Color was on the Wendy Williams Show today.
He came to the show sporting Burberry pants, and a vintage sweater in a look Wendy termed “brave.” However, his shoe cam worthy Prada shoes more than made up for it. The comedian who made the term “breastesses,” his plural for breasts a word, talked about still visiting his SNL buddies and the legendary SNL after parties. He said the most recent one he attended; he left early at 2.45AM, while his friends left at 6AM and said, “It can take you down if you’re not strong.”
He said it is humbling and great to be remembered from In Living Color. He said he will be back in some capacity in the new In Living Color, which is currently in the works. Wendy asked, “Would you do Men on Film?” Referring to his role as the flaming gay looking like Antoine Meriwether in Men on Film in In Living Color, which he said had “nothing to do with gay culture,” but took straight films and put their spin on it; he said, “If you do two snaps up these days, you may have to do two weeks of apology.” He also shared that Keenan and Damon were initially going to do it, but he ended up getting the part.
He is currently playing Sportin Life in Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rogers Theatre on Broadway, for which he is getting great reviews and his performance has been called impactful. This is his fifth time on Broadway and he shared his thoughts on reviews, saying “I tend to believe the good reviews.” He said he initially shied away from reviews, but now he can’t help it because he is called to see if he has read them about his performance. He shared in his first Broadway musical, which was called The First based on the story of Jackie Robinson and was written and directed by Joel Siegel, a critic named Edith Oliver said he was perfect, while another said he was terrible, so he framed both critiques right next to each other, I guess to remind him of the conflicting reviews critics can give. He should know that as the old adage states, “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
He has a 4 year old daughter he co-parents named Lulu, who he said came to see the show in Cambridge, screaming saying daddy, daddy, but now is a pro who can sit through the two and half hours of the show. As for his love life, he said, “We have eight shows, so I don’t have a lot of time.”
He and Wendy did a terrible Hair Piece Theatre reenactment Shaft, throwing phrases like, “Shut your mouth and coolest cat on the block” around. They were missing lines, and it was very messy, but they were obviously unprepared but looked great in the costumes. Here’s wishing the ever working actor, good luck in his future endeavors.
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