After leaving In Living Color, Jamie Foxx landed his own self-titled sitcom, but not on Fox. Instead, Jamie landed at the nascent WB network, where his show ran for five seasons (1996-2001).
Jamie plays Jamie King, an aspiring musician who relocates from Texas (where Jamie is from in real life) to California, and takes a job at a hotel owned by his aunt & uncle. Otherwise, it's standard sitcom fare, doubling as an outlet for Jamie to show off his other talent as a singer, having made his singing debut on Color a few years earlier.
In this sample clip, Jamie uses a broom as a mic and starts crooning the Drifters' "On Broadway", with help from his aunt & uncle.
Yes, that's Garrett Morris (ex-Saturday Night Live) as Uncle Junior. These days, in between albums and movie gigs, Jamie hosts Fox's summer series, Beat Shazam, as in the music app, not the superhero.
Rating: B.
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