Carl Anthony Payne II

On Martin, Carl Anthony Payne II is Cole Brown, the friend in a 1990s Fox hour where Lawrence played a radio host and half the building. Sheneneh, Jerome, Campbell as the grown-up: character comedy as counterprogramming. Payne plays Cole as the neighbor who has to live with the bit. Clip-proof television — airtight on the punchline even when offscreen weather got messy.

TV Flash keeps him because the ensemble is why the clips still work. Martin owns the disguises; Cole owns the look that says the room is ridiculous. On this desk Payne is 1990s sitcom glue — a Brown who photographs as a pal and plays as the reason the apartment feels like a building, not a one-man sketch.

Listed later grammar: s03e01. In Search of ... Martin: Sheneneh-and-Jerome factory at mid-run, Fox still treating a block as a one-man repertory. Martin is 1990s Fox furniture from 1992–1997, and Payne is how this desk still sits in it. Payne does Cole Brown as ensemble craft, the temperature under whatever the title card promised. s01e01 is the listed door. Beauty and the Beast: Lawrence as host, neighbors, and half the building's personality disorders — punchline airtight.

The listed turn is s02e01 — Do You Remember the Time?: counterprogramming as character comedy, Tisha Campbell already the grown-up in the room. Keep s03e01 if you have a second hour. In Search of ... Martin: Sheneneh-and-Jerome factory at mid-run, Fox still treating a block as a one-man repertory. The rest is optional. Martin with Cole Brown in it is not. What still plays is the look after the stunt — or the silence after the laugh. Payne supplies it as Cole Brown.