Sterling Ok. Brown had a second of sheer panic after he impersonated Common throughout a Saturday Night Live skit.
During a Thursday, February 15, interview with Variety, Brown, 47, recalled working into Common, 51, on a flight after parodying him throughout a March 2018 episode of the sketch comedy present.
“He didn’t speak to me until we got off the plane,” stated Brown. “And then he came up and said, ‘That sketch, bro. What’s up with that?’ I told him it was all love — I know he’s a good dude.”
Common, whose actual identify is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, then informed Brown that he’d misplaced talking engagements and endorsements over the skit.
“I kept telling him they were just jokes, but he was like, ‘It’s jokes to you, but it’s messing with my bottom line,’” Brown recounted. “I said, ‘Common, are you serious?’ And he said, ‘No, I’m just kidding, dude.’”
Brown had an excellent snort over the rapper’s prank, although it gave him a real scare on the time.
“I told him it was the worst thing he’d ever done,” he joked. “I was standing in front of my kids believing I ruined this man’s life.”
During the sketch in query, Brown, who shares sons Andrew, 12, and Amaré, 8, with spouse Ryan Michelle Bathe, poked enjoyable at Common’s behavior of talking in inspirational lectures.
Sterling Ok. Brown on “Saturday Night Live” Saturday Night Live/YouTube
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“From Martin [Luther King Jr.] to Malcolm [X] to Barack and Michelle [Obama], we can make light out of dark and find heaven in hell. You’re your own future, come out of your shell,” Brown stated whereas Kenan Thompson, who portrayed Family Feud host Steve Harvey within the skit, yelled, “Go to commercial!”
Thompson’s Harvey repeatedly received fed up with Common’s monologues through the skit.
“Let’s just slow it down there, Dr. Martin Luther Seuss,’” he stated, later quipping, “You ain’t no rapper, you’re more like a TED Talk set to music.”
Brown’s spot-on impression of Common might have come as a shock to followers who know him from the drama This Is Us, however he’s been engaged on his comedic chops for years.
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“When you’re the guy who’s bigger, and the Black guy, you’re always put in the role of someone with gravitas. Even if you have a sense of humor, you don’t really get to be the quirky comedian guy,” he stated. “I had to cultivate my own sense of humor knowing that I might not get those roles immediately, but I had to be ready when I did.”
Brown received to discover his playful facet within the 2023 movie American Fiction, by which he performed Jeffrey Wright’s free-spirited youthful brother, Cliff.
“It was a lot of fun to be the Kevin-slash-Cliff,” Brown stated, evaluating his character within the movie to Justin Hartley’s position in This Is Us.
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