His creative inspiration paid off. Carlton’s cheerful, arm-swinging jive became a pop culture phenomenon and has since remained a favorite ’90s relic.
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Ribeiro details its origins in an article published on Variety’s website yesterday. Courtney Cox is best known for her role as the similarly uptight Monica on Friends. Anyone over 30 remembers the scene, in which Cox is pulled from the audience on stage to dance with The Boss.
The actor also revealed to Variety that his on-set character was not even remotely close to his real-life personality. Or in Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” video, “The White Man Dance” as he called it. And I said, “That is the corniest dance on the planet that I know of, so why don’t I do that?”
He elaborates: “The Carlton dance was created when it said in the script: “Carlton dances.’ It was never even meant to be amusing; it was just that he was dancing”.
The good news for Williams, his Ravens teammates LOOOOOVE his dance moves… especially in the locker room. These werent people that I grew up with or experienced as a teenager. “I grew up in the Bronx; I was a hip-hop kid”. Of course, the journo wanted to talk about his funky fresh dance moves.
Alfonso Ribeiro recently won “Dancing With the Stars” and will take over as host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos“.
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So next time you break out the Carlton at a party (that’s a thing, right?), you’ll do so knowing its roots.
