One of the most striking parts of Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney Houston documentary, “Whitney: Can I Be Me,” is the montage of clips in which the troubled singer and her then-husband Bobby Brown are shown being ridiculed by various sketch shows. And, of course, “Saturday Night Live” was a culprit.
In 2001, Maya Rudolph depicted the “My Love Is Your Love” singer, while Tracy Morgan took on her former New Edition pin-up other half. And it’s fair to say that their impressions, which leaned heavily on the pair’s rumored drug use, weren’t exactly flattering. Little wonder, then, that even nearly two decades on, Brown still has beef with the pair.
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“It was hateful,” the “Don’t Be Cruel” singer told Atlanta Black Star in 2022, referring to the “SNL” skit. “People do some hateful things, but you just have to bare and buckle down and be able to accept the good with the bad.” Brown was even more scathing of the treatment that they received at the hands of rival show “Mad TV,” admitting that at the time, he and Houston wanted to confront the comedians in question directly.
