The Wayans Bros. is among the most iconic sitcoms ever. Airing on the now-defunct WB Network, in accordance with Marlon Wayans, NBC handed on the present as a result of John Witherspoon’s character was “too ghetto.”

Appearing on Keke Palmer’s present, Baby, This is Keke Palmer, Marlon defined why NBC executives weren’t feeling John “Pops” Williams.

“We didn’t make it to NBC,” Marlon mentioned. “We did a table reading, and they thought [Witherspoon’s character] was too ghetto. And they wanted us to have a different father…like a Danny Glover type, and we was like, ‘No.’”

“It’s the flavor of the show,” he continued. “We was like, ‘It’s John Witherspoon or it’s not.’ … We ain’t going to do the show. And they was like, ‘Well, negro, you’re not doing the show.” 

Marlon nearly reconsidered.

“We was like ‘Wait, hold on, Danny Glover, you say?’ But then, the WB was starting, and it was like, ‘I think that’s a great combination.’ So, everything is God,” he recalled. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and it’s not about the doors that close; it’s the ones that open up.”

For 5 seasons, The Wayans Bros. aired from January 1995 to May 1999. Starring Marlon, Witherspoon, and Shawn Wayans, the present remains to be well-liked right this moment.

In 2019, Witherspoon handed away on the age of 77, after affected by a coronary heart assault in his Sherman Oaks, California residence.