''Ain't Nobody Got Time for That'' is a viral

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video of Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins being interviewed after having escaped a fire in an apartment complex. It originally aired on April 8, 2012, on

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NBC affiliate

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. In a slightly modified version broadcast on Jimmy Kimmel Live, it was edited as if she was being interviewed by Jesus himself. The video garnered Sweet Brown many appearances on television, including a visit to

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's '' The View''. Brown also plays a

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in the Tyler Perry 2013 movie '' A Madea Christmas'' saying a part of her line from her television interview during an interview at the end of the movie. As of June 2021, the original videos uploaded at the time have a combined total of 34.5 million views.

Critical analysis

Charles E. Williams, writing for the ''

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'', opined that the humor evoked by Sweet Brown's interview should stay within the confines of the

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community, linking it to the " code-switching" phenomenon

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spoke of.

Lawsuit

In April 2013, Sweet Brown sued

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for selling a song called "I Got Bronchitis" on

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for profit, using catchphrases uttered by her in the video, such as "Ain't nobody got time for that", "Ran for my life," and "Said oh, Lord

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, it's a fire!" She also sued Facebook for 3.8 million dollars for unauthorized use of copyright material

Jimmy Kimmel parody

In March 2014, variety show '' Jimmy Kimmel Live'' did a parody of the video in the style of a film trailer. The plot is Sweet Brown going through some moments in history and being responsible for things such as

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getting into politics and

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founding Apple. It starred

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as Sweet Brown,

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as Barack Obama and

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as Steve Jobs. In the end, it features Matt Damon doing an interview when the real Sweet Brown comes in and interrupts him with her catchphrase. As of April 2017, it had over 10 million views on YouTube.

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