After welcoming Ribeiro to the show, host Jimmy Kimmel mentioned what a great name the 50-year-old actor has. The America’s Funniest Home Videos host agreed and told Kimmel that he likes it much better than the name Carlton. Kimmel quickly told the actor not to worry and that he wasn’t going to ask him to do the Carlton dance, joking that Ribeiro must want to “kill” people who ask him to do so.

“You know, I won’t say kill, but I don’t have a love for it like they do, you know?” Ribeiro said, according to the clip shared on YouTube. “I typically get asked to do the dance pretty much every day of my life if I go outside. If I go anywhere, it’s like, you know, I just randomly hear people, ‘Do the dance!’ And you’re like, ‘I’m … I’m not dancing for you, I’m a Black guy, I’m just not dancing for you. It’s not gonna happen.”

The late night host noted what a “strange inclination” people must have to walk up to Ribeiro and demand he do the Carlton dance to Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual.”

“The weird part for me is trying to understand what’s happening in their head,” he said. “Like, what makes you think that you just gon’ ask a random person to dance for you, and they’re gonna be like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been waiting for you to ask! Hold on a second, lemme get into character?’ Like, it’s not … I don’t get it, it’s not gonna happen.”

While Ribeiro is understandably frustrated with performing his memorable moves on command, the actor won Dancing With the Stars’ coveted Mirror Ball trophy in 2014, Okayplayer reports. According to Page Six, Ribeiro even tried to copyright the dance in 2019, but was turned down by the U.S. Copyright Office.