Sterling K. Brown has 3 Emmys, but Dan Fogelman has a bottle of scotch and a story

Sterling K. Brown has three Emmys, including best actor in a drama for “This Is Us.”

His friend, “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman, has none, despite nine nominations.

Both are heading into Sunday’s Emmy Awards with fresh nominations, this time for the first season of their new collaboration, “Paradise.”

Fogelman is not overly jealous of his buddy’s trophies. He has a bottle of scotch that he cherishes just as much.

“After Sterling won his first Emmy for ‘This Is Us,’ not his first Emmy in life, but his first ‘This Is Us’ Emmy, I’d had a dinner party over at my house and Sterling came and he brought me a very expensive bottle of booze,” Fogelman said during a joint interview with The Associated Press, while Brown began pacing laughing and shaking his head in embarrassment behind him.

“I was like, ‘Sterling’s not a drinker’ and I was like, ‘This is too generous, this