Yvette Nicole Brown

A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW (HBO)

Yvette Nicole Brown always believed there were two lanes for actors: “There was the award-nominated lane, and then there was the lane for the people that just happened to be working,” she says. “As a kid from Cleveland who had no connections, I’ve always been happy I’m working.” Now, thanks to A Black Lady Sketch Show, those tracks have merged for Brown. “I want to give Robin Thede her flowers,” she says of the HBO sketch series’ creator and star. “She’s created an opportunity for those of us that have been kicking around for years to show the different facets