Speaking to NPR in 2012, Grier explained the inspiration for his characterization: 'I had already done Dreamgirls on Broadway, and being in a musical and working with other performers who were gay, I was privy to that vocabulary backstage. So a lot of it was hijacked from what I heard in the theater and what was permeating around. 'Men on Film Festival' – November 24, 1991.'Men on Film: The Return' – September 29, 1991.Now I don't know if it was a gay thing, but it was also a very black thing.' Sketches Now at that time, if a gay person was going to read you - to tell you off - it was always accompanied by snaps. 'Men on Videotape Rentals' – March 29, 1992.'Men on European Vacation' - February 23, 1992.
Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Chris Farley as Roger Ebert. According to series creator Keenen Ivory Wayans, the chairman of Fox sat down with him to try to persuade him to pull 'Men on Films' from the premiere episode. Damon Wayans reported that after Fox moved In Living Color from its original 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time to 8:00 p.m., Fox censors began exercising more editorial control over the sketches. 'David will say something to me and it will cut to me and I'm smiling.
' series was controversial within the LGBT community.
