Blankman

[laughs] Oh, we got

... we're gonna talk about Blankman.

Yes, yes.

Blankman, 1994, Damon Wayans, David Alan Grier-

Mm-hmm

... and probably the only other person who likes The Hangover as little as I do, Robin Givens.

[laughs]

[laughs] Oh, man.

What is your favorite comedy movie of all time? That's very difficult, but maybe one that you are very fond of and really makes you laugh.

Blank Man.

Oh yeah, Damon Wayans.

Oh yeah.

I

gotta just go with Blank Man.

That's the easiest way I could put it.

That would explain...

There you go.

Any Halloween parties this year, B, y- that you gonna go to? I know you did Blankman one year.

Oh.

That was a big hit.

He would just use it to get separation to get his shot off.

James Harden would do it, get the shot off, and then flop around like he's Blankman getting the crap slapped out of, out of him, you know, in an alleyway.

And it's just, I just bleh.

Anyway, Bronny James is 22 today.

I thought for sure he did like a Ferris Bueller or...

I just watched Blank Man literally last

week.

That's pretty wild.

Don't put these movies in my head because I'll try and get them on the pod and you won't.

That would have been an interesting...

We should do another superhero series and put Blank Man

in there.

And in 2025, the Wayans family was inducted in the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.

But Hollywood came calling to the Wayans family in the late 80s, with Keenan writing and directing I'm Gonna Get You Sucker, a blaxploitation parody starring various brothers and sisters, Damon writing and starring in Mo Money, Blank Man and Major Payne in the early 90s, and in 1996, Sean and Marlon writing and starring in Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, which spoofs 90s hood films like Menace to Society, South Central, Juice and Boys in the Hood.

So 90s teen slasher movies were next on their spoof hit list and Sean and Marlon along with their writing partners Buddy Johnson and Phil Bowman wrote a script with the reported working title of Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th.

Separately, following their 1996 script for Spy Hard, which spoofed James Bond, starring the deadpan king of parodies Leslie Nielsen, screenwriters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg had also started writing their own teen slasher parody script, reportedly with the title Scream If I Know What You Did Last Halloween.

So Meteor Man was just right on – The cusp of everything that I had been reading prior to that time and watching it, I was like, oh, yeah, I love it.

And, you know, there's stuff like like Blank Man, for example, which was played more for laughs, which, you know, it's goofy.

It's funny, but it's not really I don't really consider Blank Man in the same sense that I would the Meteor Man like I can see the Meteor Man forever.

fighting with actual superheroes, like defeating actual super villains and stuff like that.

Whereas blank man is just kind of goofy, almost like kick-ass where it's too ultra realistic to a sense, you know, but the meteor man watched it, loved it.

And I, I tend to watch as many, many times as I can.

I, I really should have done a rewatch, but I rewatched it not too long ago.