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Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. on their new show, 'Poppa's House'

Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. combine their comedic superpowers for 'Poppa's House': 'Together we're undeniable'

He shared the anecdote with his agent, who told him that was his next show, then matched Wayans with writer Kevin Hench to start hashing out the idea. Wayans plays the titular Poppa, a curmudgeonly radio deejay who’s grown set in his ways and Wayans Jr. plays his idealistic son Damon, a talented filmmaker who’s stuck in a job he hates, under the thumb of his father-in-law. “In my mind, I go, Back in the day I would've done something like that, because he's got the physical, the stuff that my body can't do anymore or I refuse to do.

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