Damon Wayans is opening up about his short stint ... to be on Saturday Night Live” and had already been working on characters that would later become part of his sketch show In Living Color.

Damon Wayans Jr. is looking forward to breaking ... that the episodes are heartfelt and that you fall in love with these characters and that they feel like real people,” Wayans Jr. added.

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Damon Wayans is opening up about his reason ... He recalled trying to pitch characters and sketches to SNL writers, “but they would shoot my ideas down.” ...

Tetona Jackson and Damon Wayans Jr. in “Poppa’s House ... and I feel like we bring that into these characters. Even though they’re different from who we are, also pieces of them are ...

Damon Wayans has revealed how he “purposely ... and that he had a handful of characters he had been working on. “I felt like I was born to be on ‘Saturday Night Live,'” he said.

For nearly four decades, Damon Wayans has been creating some of the edgier characters on TV and film, from a Marine drill instructor in "Major Payne," to the angry clown from "In Living Color ...

And on the homefront, Poppa has to continue to parent his dreamer of an adult son, Damon ... and Wayans Jr.’s chemistry as a married couple is another selling point, playing two characters ...

Played by Damon Wayans Jr., Derek #2 instantly hits it ... Part of the reason the pairing works so well is because like their characters, the actors also share a sense of humor.

Damon Wayans is opening up about his short stint ... to be on Saturday Night Live” and had already been working on characters that would later become part of his sketch show In Living Color.