The Super Bowl halftime show used to be about marching bands and nostalgia acts. Then "In Living Color" stole a good chunk of the audience.

In 1992, Super Bowl XXVI viewers skipped the halftime show and instead changed the channel to FOX to catch a counterprogrammed episode of the popular sketch comedy show In Living Color.

Music lovers tuning into the Super Bowl have comedy — specifically, the 90s cultural phenomenon “In Living Color" — to thank for halftime shows that feature today’s most popular artists ...