“I learned how to carry a show in a matter of two or three months,” he says.

Of all the sets he’s been on, Williams says the learning curve on Everybody Hates Chris was the steepest. Williams, who read for the role six times, found out he got the job after he’d boarded the plane to fly home. That’s the moment I realized, ‘Yo, I don't need a line to get a laugh.’”Įverybody Hates Chris premiered two years later.

I threw a look to the camera and got a laugh. “I didn't have a line and the bit was that he's supposed to forget my name. “ It was during Jack Black's opening monologue, and the bit was that he had a bunch of kids in his dressing room who were his illegitimate children that he'd been having with groupies,” Williams explains. Saturday Night Live was where Williams first realized he could do comedy. “I just told like a month ago, ‘Dog, I did your first night at SNL,’” Williams says. Tylen, the youngest, quit acting to be a DJ.) Williams began appearing on Saturday Night Live as an extra at seven one of his appearances was on Kenan Thompson’s debut episode. Tyrel, the middle child, is currently starring in the Party Down revival. (His younger brothers followed him into acting. In one clip, a young Williams draws on the computer while Ernie tries to guess what he’s creating. Williams, who grew up in Yonkers, New York, booked his first job on Sesame Street at the age of four.

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