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Article: Shawn and Marlon Wayans: Hollywood's satire kings.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 6, 2001
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WESTWOOD, Calif. _ You gotta love two brothers who look alike, act alike and have the ability to decipher each other's Pictionary scribblings when no one else in the room has a clue.
You also have to dig a brother who can walk into a room at a W boutique hotel with a purple blanket wrapped around his 6-foot-2 frame and, after polite introductions, immediately announce, "Hi, I'm Marlon and I've got to pee."
It's that kind of candor that has endeared Shawn and Marlon Wayans, the youngest performing siblings of the First Family of Comedy, to television and film audiences since the late `80s. Having created a hit sitcom "The Wayans Bros." and having ...