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'Community' Star Laments 'Arsenio Hall Show' Cancellation

'Community' Star Laments 'Arsenio Hall Show' Cancellation
Yvette Nicole Brown arrives at PALEYFEST 2014 - "Community" on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Yvette Nicole Brown arrives at PALEYFEST 2014 - "Community" on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

In response to Friday's news that CBS had pulled the plug on "The Arsenio Hall Show" after one season, former "Community" star Yvette Nicole Brown took to Twitter to share her opinion of what the late-night talk show, and others like it, had meant for her career.

In my five years in the cast of a network comedy @ArsenioHall & @GeorgeLopez were the only late night talk shows couches I was welcomed to.

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014

In addition to referencing appearing on Hall's show, Brown also mentioned her appearance on George Lopez's TBS talk show, "Lopez Tonight," which was cancelled back in 2011.

Brown later expanded on her initial comment, posting a series of tweets discussing diversity on late-night TV and what losing the voice of Arsenio Hall (and Lopez) means for late-night television.

Shows like theirs are not a small thing to those of us who aren't often "seen" in the same way our counterparts are...

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014

Losing @ArsenioHall's voice in late night hurts. Just taking a moment to thank him for all he did for those of us who wanted a shot too. xo

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014

Brown also made sure to mention that late-night hosts themselves are not necessarily responsible for which guests appear on their shows.

And let me say one more thing. The hosts of late night shows don't always know what their bookers are saying about prospective guests...

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014

She even told her followers not to blame other late-night hosts for the apparent dearth of racial or ethnic diversity on their shows.

So don't blame Dave, Jay, Seth, Conan, Craigy and the Jimmy's when you don't see certain folks on their couches...

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014
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When other Twitter users pointed out that Brown forgot to mention she had appeared on AMC’s “Talking Dead” and Bravo’s “Watch What Happens: Live” with Andy Cohen, she copped to the omissions. But she noted that "Talking Dead" -- a weekly show that airs directly after each episode of "The Walking Dead" -- didn't quite fit the bill of the "daily late night shows" to which her initial tweets had referred.

@boombots_esq I am grateful to my family at @AMCTalkingDead. But I'm talking daily late night shows. It's different.

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014

Forgive me, I was remiss in not mentioning @Andy & his awesome #WWHL. Besides George & Arsenio, he believed I could be fun in late night.

— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 31, 2014
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