"Shawn and Marlon weren't the funny ones. Never have been."
Perhaps they aren't funny to you, but you can't be so bold as to speak for everyone else. I find Shawn and Marlon to be very funny.
As far as making fun of black stereotypes....whites have been known to join in on this. All in the Family comes to mind. I remember one episode where Archie Bunker had dressed up as a black guy.
Why are you even keeping score on this issue? People need to learn how to lighten up and laugh at themselves. We tend to take ourselves too seriously sometimes.
And I don't at all. I'm entitled to my opinion.
Why are you even keeping score on this issue?
Keeping score? I was pointing out that, in my opinion, In Living Color was allowed by the PC establishment to put skits on TV that no one else would've been allowed to at the time. It was a comment on the establishment not a tally of who had the most irreverent skits. (Your trotting out of an Archie Bunker episode designed to make Archie look like a fool for his narrow views is applicable how?)
Please note that I found In Living Color to be very funny. It's just that skits about blacks in prison misusing words or handicapped superheroes would not have been tolerated on a network show produced by non-blacks at that time. Again the point is about PC double-standards. Apparently you feel differently.