News Anchor Surprised To Learn Laurence Fishburne And Samuel L. Jackson Are In Fact Not The Same Black Person
"You're the entertainment reporter? You're the entertainment reporter? And you don't know the difference between me and Laurence Fishburne?"
Sam Rubin has been an entertainment reporter for over 20 years. He has written two books, and even won an award. Today is not his finest day.
While interviewing Samuel L. Jackson for KTLA overnight, Rubin asked him, “Did you get a lot of reaction from that Super Bowl commercial?”
“What Super Bowl commercial?” Jackson countered, with a piercing, rage-filled gaze that could break through the bones, heart, and stomach of any grown man.
Looking frantically off-camera, Rubin learns of his mistake. It wasn’t Samuel L. Jackson in the Super Bowl commercial. It was the other one. Not Morgan Freeman. The other other one.
Hooo-boy. It would help if they wore name-tags, right?
“You’re the entertainment reporter? You’re the entertainment reporter? And you don’t know the difference between me and Laurence Fishburne?”
When Rubin tries to turn the conversation to something else, anything else, anything at all, Jackson won’t let him.
“Let’s talk about RoboCop.”
“Oh HELL no.”
Instead, Jackson begins to list each black man that has been featured in a commercial, most of whom are different people to the person that he is. “I’m the ‘What’s in your wallet‘ black guy. He’s the car black guy. Morgan Freeman is the other credit card black guy. There’s a heavier weight black guy that’s like, putting cash down in the seats in a baseball stadium. But he’s also the black guy that turns off the water and the lights when his kid tells him the house is cool. I’m not that guy either.”
Two hours later, Rubin apologised for “a very amateur mistake”, claiming he’d confused one ad for another and then felt dumb. Or something.