Emmys “scandal” reaches its natural death point as Quinta Brunson crashes Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue
Everyone is friends, and nobody is mad about it, and we can all move on with our lives
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In what we can only take as a clear gesture of good sportsmanship, good humor, and good “You both have shows on this Disney-owned network and everyone involved is going to smile about that, god damn it,” Abbott Elementary star and creator Quinta Brunson “crashed” Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight, claiming back a little more of that Emmy time Kimmel usurped from her at the big awards show on Monday night.
You remember: Kimmel, fully committed to a bit/literally hogging the spotlight, played dead on the ground on the stage while Brunson accepted her award for Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series. As a number of observers—including Brunson’s co-star and co-winner, Sheryl Lee Ralph—noted, it was a move that, regardless of what you thought of it as a comedy piece, undeniably pulled focus from Brunson’s first win, forcing her accomplishment to literally share space with the famous white guy doing nothing to get all that free attention.
Anyway, Live!’s Twitter account would like you to know there are no hard feelings, tweeting out a picture tonight of Brunson on the show’s set, Emmy in hand, front and center, with everybody being the goodest sports that they can be about the whole thing.
Brunson has, of course, addressed all this already, offering praise to Kimmel—calling him “one of her comedy godfathers” for his early support of Abbott—in the immediate aftermath of the moment. (She also alluded to her appearance on Kimmel this week, with Abbott Elementary coming back for its sophomore season next week.) We haven’t seen the actual content of Brunson’s “interruption” yet, but we’re going to go ahead and assume it’s going to trend closer to “We’re all in on the joke, right?” and not “Award-winning TV creator beats Jimmy Kimmel to death for real this time with her Emmy.”
Update, 10:14 p.m.: She did not beat him to death with her Emmy. (Brunson comes out at about the 11-minute mark of the below video; you’re welcome for saving you the scan-through.) Instead, she gave the full acceptance speech she would have given on Monday. It was pretty sweet!
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Shame. Quinta could probably do some serious damage with one of those things if she came out swinging.
Of all the major entertainment awards, I’ve always found the Emmy to be the most effective weapon.
The Root in shambles.
3 articles (same as AVC) with less than 60 comments total (and most from trolls). Oh the humanity.
No, no, no. You don’t understand. Jezebel says this is a massive story and will never let it go. Get with the program, Gizmodo.
Nobody’s mad but there is plenty of INTERNET OUTRAGE!!!
Wait, there’s a difference….? Oh, shit, there’s a difference!
Abandon ship! I repeat, all hands abandon ship!
I can’t imagine anyone not seeing that coming. The only thing missing was an appearance by Matt Damon telling her to beat the hell out of Jimmy with the Emmy.
They’d planned that, but went over time and they had to bump Matt Damon. Sorry about that, Matt!
Quinta Brunson’s fucking Matt Damon?
It’s always odd when people are angry about things that the ‘victim’ isn’t mad about. I get the issue and yes, it can be annoying, but if comedy doesn’t land, that’s all it is. The bit was planned without knowing who won, since that’s the way those shows work. If the Emmys went the way of the Oscars, he would have been stepping on a white male’s moment and no one would have cared. Not everyone is in the same place. What some see as a slight, others just see as treating them the same as anyone else. You can’t pull that gag off during best show/best actor/actress, but writing is low enough tier you think you can get away with it until you step on a POC’s moment (and fair).
Obviously things are magnified as POC are finally getting recognition and representation, but, if you take the comedy out of these award shows they’re insufferable. If Kimmel only made jokes at white male’s expense, we’d be talking about lack of inclusiveness at some level. This is why no one wants to host these shows any more, there’s always backlash.There is plenty of things in that space to legit be mad about, I wouldn’t have put this as my hill to die on, myself.
So, what, if you weren’t so uninterested and “above” this story, would we have gotten *ten* paragraphs?
Well, that’s one way to completely dismiss their perfectly valid points.
I was dismissing the glaringly hypocritical framing, not the points themselves – and thought it was fairly obvious.
I like watching people get outraged at imaginary outrage
That’s clear. You’re a fucking loser