My usual side eye replaced any possible chuckles. The message this sends, especially to youth: Forget strengthening marketable skills and using intellect. I can act ridiculous, perpetuate it by milking opportunities, play into a public fascination with subculture stereotypes, and get paid. Why build a brand foundation on being the butt of jokes or the torch bearer for offensive racial and socioeconomic depictions?
Why not build a brand on real talent or something of substance? Kimmel took the opportunity to interrupt Damon's sketch with the real Sweet Brown, who delivered her famous line. As if being played by Queen Latifah wasn't awesome enough, Sweet Brown also got a mention by none other than Beyonce.
When Extra was interviewing her and asked her about the power outage that followed her Super Bowl halftime show, the response was a viral video-inspired, "Lord Jesus, it's a fire! In addition to making appearances on some small-time, local television commercials, Sweet Brown also did some work as an official celebrity spokesperson, albeit briefly. The video has since been removed, but SFGate reports that she was hired by WePay , a small startup company who made her their spokesperson in February The company aimed to compete with giants like PayPal, and used Sweet Brown's catchphrase to try to emphasize just how much faster their service was compared to their competitors.
According to the paper's brief report, the viral video sensation was being formally represented by Sparkell Adams, who was also involved in her lawsuit against Apple. Unfortunately for her, her career as a company spokesperson seems to be short-lived, as there are no more mentions of any more similar work going her way.
While she's mostly been in demand for simply being herself, her biggest credit is in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas — as herself. When she spoke with theGrio , it was a full year after the video that made her into a viral sensation. Asked about what it was like to get a debut on the big screen, she had nothing but good things to say about Perry. I would love to work with him again. He just makes you feel at home. They also talked a bit about a planned reality television show, which was going to be called The Sweet Brown's.
At the time, the show was reportedly already in production, and she had also gotten a role in what was described as a female version of The Hangover. That was in May , though, and given that there's been no word on Sweet Brown's role in either project, it's safe to say that they've fallen to the wayside.
Like her film career, Sweet Brown's foray into merchandising foodstuffs seems to have fallen by the wayside, too. The last post was in July , though, and with only a handful of likes and a link to a web page that no longer exists, it seems as though this was another business opportunity that was extinguished very, very quickly. There's only a few posts spanning a few days, and the few likes they garnered seemed to indicate that people weren't as ready to jump on the BBQ sauce bandwagon as she might have hoped.
Oh, and she made sure to mention cold pops, fires and bronchitis, throughout. Sweet Brown got her first fifteen minutes of fame when she told a local TV-news station that she fled a burning apartment building because she suffered from bronchitis, and " ain't nobody got time for that. Asked by: Ciro Meszes food and drink desserts and baking How much is sweet brown worth now? Last Updated: 22nd July, She has earned a good amount of wealth through her fame on the internet. The Success of Sweet Brown is quite a surprising and astonishing one which would happen only for one in a billion.
Elitsa Meiering Professional. What is cold pop?
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