About The Show

The show is set in Stamford, Connecticut. In the Kyle family, Damon Wayne stars as Michael Kyle, and Tisha Campbell-Martin stars as his wife Jay. George O. Gore II stars as Michael Kyle, Jr. Jennifer Freeman plays Claire Kyle, and Parker McKenna Posey plays Kady Kyle. Andrew McFarlane was added as a regular guest star in the second season as Tony, Claire's boyfriend. Noah Gray-Cabey guest starred in a third-season episode as Kady's 'boyfriend', Franklin, who is a super genius and hence creates jokes that almost no one understands and is consulted by Michael on various occasions. He then appeared normally until the end. Brooklyn Sudano plays Vanessa, Junior's wife and mother to his baby, Junior Junior. Some have compared the show to a current-day version of The Cosby Show. While there may be many similarities, there are also some differences. The main similarity is that both are situation comedies that chronicle the day-to-day lives of an upper-middle class African-American family. A difference may be that The Cosby Show was set in an older era, where-as some of the comedy of "My Wife and Kids" may not be socially acceptable in the late 1980's; for example, the storyline of Junior getting his girlfriend pregnant and then marrying her.