Sterling K. Brown Thought He 'Ruined' Common's Life With 'SNL' Sketch
Sterling K. Brown had a moment of pure panic after it happened Just during a Saturday evening live sketch.
During a Thursday, February 15 interview with VarietyBrown, 47, recalled encountering Common, 51, on a flight after parodying him during a March 2018 episode of the sketch comedy show.
“He didn't speak to me until we got off the plane,” Brown said. “And then he came up and said, 'That sketch, bro. What about that?' I told him it was all love – I know he's a good guy.
Common, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, then told Brown that the skit had caused him to lose speaking engagements and endorsements.
“I kept telling him it was just a joke, but he said, 'It's a joke to you, but it's messing up my bottom line,'” Brown said. “I said, 'Common, are you serious?' And he said, 'No, I'm just kidding, dude.'
Brown laughed at the rapper's joke, even though it genuinely frightened him at the time.
“I told him it was the worst thing he had ever done,” he joked. “I stood in front of my children and thought I had ruined this man's life.”
During the sketch in question, Brown, who shares sons Andrew, 12, and Amaré, 8, with his wife Ryan Michelle Badenmade fun of Common's habit of speaking in inspirational lectures.
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“By Martin [Luther King Jr.] Unpleasant Malcolm [X] Unpleasant Barracks And Michelle [Obama]we can make light out of darkness and find heaven in hell. You are your own future, come out of your shell,” Brown said while Kenan Thompsonwho portrayed Family feud host Steve Harvey in the skit he shouted, “Go to commercial!”
Thompson's Harvey repeatedly grew tired of Common's monologues during the sketch.
“Let's just take it easy, Dr. Martin Luther Seuss,” he said, later joking: “You're not a rapper, you're more like a TED Talk set to music.”
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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 gravity. Even if you have a sense of humor, you can't really become the quirky comedian,” he said. “I had to cultivate my own sense of humor, knowing that I might not get those roles right away, but I had to be ready when I did.”
Brown got to explore his playful side in the 2023 film American fictionin which he played Jeffery Wright's free-spirited younger brother, Cliff.
“It was a lot of fun being the Kevin-slash-Cliff,” Brown said, comparing his character in the film to Justin Hartley's role in it This is us.