Quinta Brunson

Quinta Brunson had to step over Jimmy Kimmel, who laid on the Emmys stage due to an earlier skit with Will Arnett, to give her acceptance speech for ...

Kimmel’s commitment to the bit was yet another [palm-colored](https://twitter.com/lexwarnn/status/1406298583771480067?lang=en) man [disturbing](https://twitter.com/furyofthegodz/status/1569522640507011079?s=20&t=8sW1sVq1kLx-hi7SyYQ3YQ) and [disrespecting](https://twitter.com/gpirnia/status/1569509571265445891?s=20&t=8sW1sVq1kLx-hi7SyYQ3YQ) a Black woman’s moment. “I don’t know what the internet thinks.” She also explained that she has a lot of respect for Kimmel, who gave her one of her [first late-night spots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXqnN-Mg8s), though she doesn’t know how she will feel about the incident in the future. Nearly perpendicular to the microphone, Will Arnett had dragged a fake-drunk Kimmel onstage and joked that he got too drunk on “skinny margaritas” after losing yet another Emmy in the Variety Talk Series category [Congrats to John Oliver!](https://twitter.com/TelevisionAcad/status/1569490853378543617?s=20&t=USVtFgUMLM3iDl_3itw-0w) .

Quinta Brunson, creator and star of 'Abbott Elementary,' won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, but for fans at home, her win was tainted ...

He Instagram-messaged me that he saw this comedy and thought it was one of the greatest comedies of all time and he was so excited it was going to be on ABC. If you were watching at home, Kimmel was easier to ignore, as the camera focused on Brunson and her speech, but once the official photos started circulating online, anger grew. Kimmel committed to the bit so thoroughly that he did not budge, even as Brunson stepped over him to collect her trophy and Arnett attempted to move him out of the way. Many called Kimmel out for stealing what should have been Brunson’s moment — another instance of a white man inserting himself into a Black woman’s accomplishment — and compared it to his handling of Brunson was a good sport, giving him her phone to hold when he refused to move. [Quinta Brunson](https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/quinta-brunson-is-the-new-queen-of-sitcoms.html) earned her first [Emmy](https://www.thecut.com/2022/09/best-moments-from-the-2022-emmys-recap.html) on Monday night for writing the hit show Abbott Elementary.

The comedians posed together at Disney's Emmy after party, with Brunson proudly displaying her Emmy right in front of Kimmel's face.

“If #QuintaBrunson stepping over #JimmyKimmel who literally laid in her spotlight on the day she won an Emmy isn't a metaphor for what it means to be a WOC in a white mans world I don't know what is,” reads a viral tweet from @hebagowayed. I’m gonna be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face," joked Brunson. “So, I think in that moment I was just really happy that it was Jimmy up there. “Jimmy gave me my first big late night spot and was one of the first people to see Abbott and he Instagram messaged me that he saw this comedy and he thought it was one of the greatest comedies of all time and he was so excited that it was going to be on ABC," she said. “I don't know what the internet thinks.” In the photo taken at Disney's Emmy party, Brunson gets something akin to revenge, prominently displaying her Emmy smack dab in front of Kimmel's face while sporting an accomplished grin.

Brunson had already made history when she was nominated for three Emmys for Abbott Elementary.

It's just that the reality of this school in West Philadelphia is...there just wouldn't be white children in the school." "But the woman was a nurse, and she came in with her son. "I'm trying to do the same thing now. Television, the writer/actor/producer is ready to pay it forward and support some emerging talents herself. "I had to say something that I think a lot of people hadn't heard before, which is, like, no white children [in the cast]," she said. They are in the story with you." Achieving that level of authenticity, Brunson said, required lots of vigilance, including an unusual request for the show's casting director. "Abbott Elementary is not a show about wish-fulfillment teaching...it's really the reality of teaching, underneath a workplace comedy," she said. The school Abbott Elementary depicts is fictional, named after Brunson's middle school teacher. But Brunson says both Janine and Barbara are based on her mother, a former kindergarten teacher in Philadelphia, now retired. Brunson declined to comment on the lawsuit. Then, a student's mother seeking a parent-teacher conference showed up just as they were about to leave.

Fresh off her Emmy wins, Quinta caught up with Teen Vogue to discuss her newest venture in beauty.

to commit to zero retouching.)Quinta is the star of OLAY's new Retinol 24 + Peptide campaign, but her relationship with the brand goes back. When I was younger, it was about the fight to fit in. (OLAY is the first mass skincare brand in the U.S.

Quinta made a historic win at the Emmys last night, but it's been overshadowed by Jimmy's bit. Now both comedians are speaking out.

"I'm going to be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face. I kind of consider him one of the comedy godfathers, and I'm a huge fan of Will Arnett, so I was wrapped up in the moment." "I don't know," Quinta told Variety.

In this op-ed, Natasha Mulenga argues that Jimmy Kimmel disrupted Quinta Brunson's historic Emmys 2022 win by lying onstage during her acceptance speech.

Abbott has been wildly successful in its first season, and Quinta [revealed](https://people.com/tv/quinta-brunson-abbott-elementary-marketing-money-help-teachers/) that she redirected the show's Emmy marketing campaign funds to donate to real teachers and their classrooms. Sheryl Lee Ralph deservedly [won](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emmys-2022-best-moments-memes-surprises) her first Emmy after 30-plus years in the business. However, Jimmy refused to get up, even after Quinta was announced the winner, even after she received her award and started to give her acceptance speech. [a night of firsts](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emmys-winners-2022-see-the-full-list-here). Squid Game was the first non-English drama to [win](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emmys-winners-2022-see-the-full-list-here) for an Emmy for directing. The presenters of her award were actor Will Arnett and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel — who, pretending to be unconscious, had been dragged onstage by Will as part of a bit.