When it comes to pranks, Ellen DeGeneres [1] tends to be a repeat offender. Sterling K. Brown unfortunately learned this fact the hard way on Monday when he made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show [2] and fell victim to one of the talkshow host's famous scares [3] for the second time. As soon as he arrived on set, Sterling made a point to diligently check around his chair for anyone that could potentially pop out to frighten him, admitting, "I'm gonna try to relax as much as possible, but I know you now." Although Ellen successfully calmed his nerves, things took quite the turn when the two sat down to play a letter-association game.
Smack dab in the middle of their game, a calm, cool, and collected Sterling promptly lost his sh*t when a man dressed in all black descended from the ceiling to scare him. The 43-year-old actor screamed, threw his chair, and screamed some more, exclaiming, "I never looked up! I'm gonna kill you, man! You were there the whole time . . . like a ninja!" Witness Sterling's downright hysterical reaction in the video below, and kindly join us in bowing down to the reigning queen of pranks.