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And so Spade sets out to make things right and avenge his brother by targeting the local “chain lord,” Mr. (“over gold,” the act of wearing so many gold chains you die), Jack Spade (Wayans) leaves his military career and comes home to Any Ghetto U.S.A. Like the genre he affectionately spoofs, Sucka’s plot is beautifully simple: After his younger brother dies of O.G. Sucka is an Airplane-style spoof of blaxploitation movies, a joke-a-second offering where Wayans - knowing this was probably his shot at a Big Career - goes completely for broke. Wayans writes, directs, and stars in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and, in doing so, single-handedly revived the gloriously inappropriate and problematic genre that once made America great. This success gave Wayans the chance to make his own movie, an opportunity he seized with both hands. Wayans co-starred, and while Shuffle was produced for next to nothing and a decade ahead of its time, it still made money and found a whole new wave of lifelong fans (including me) on cable TV. Hollywood Shuffle is a minor masterpiece - a withering, hilarious, touching, and angry (but never mean-spirited) satire about the indignities of being a black actor in a Hollywood culture that’s only looking for pimps, hookers, junkies, and “Eddie Murphy types.” Everything changed after he teamed with his friend (and underrated genius) Robert Townsend to write Hollywood Shuffle (1987).

With the all-important torch of inappropriate comedy just lying around waiting to be picked up, along came 29-year-old Keenan Ivory Wayans and his modest hit and cult-classic, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.īy 1988, Wayans had spent the better part of a decade working his way up the show-biz ropes as a standup comedian and sometime actor. Saturday Night Live was still working out of its mid-80’s doldrums. George Carlin had become an elder statesmen.

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Mel Brooks’ next movie would be Life Stinks.

Eddie Murphy was about to move into his Boomerang/ Distinguished Gentlemen phase.