Quinta Brunsongot her moment!
On Wednesday night’s episode ofJimmy Kimmel Live!, the Emmy Award winner, 32, interrupted hostJimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue as payback for a comedic bit that fell flat during her acceptance speech at the 74th PrimetimeEmmy Awards.
Towards the end of Kimmel’s monologue, Brunson took the stage with her Emmy in hand, completely ignoring the fact that Kimmel, 54, wasn’t finished.
“You know, you’re a little bit early for your interview. It’s after the commercial,” the late-night host said, to which she replied: “I know, but I have a little favor to ask, actually. So you know how you win an Emmy, you only have 45 seconds to do an acceptance speech, which is not that much time? And then you get less time because someone does a dumb comedy bit that goes on a bit too long?”
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She then asked Kimmel to use the rest of his monologue to finish her acceptance speech from Monday. She thanked theAbbott Elementaryfans, among others, as well as the show’s writers, whom she told: “Now please go to bed, we have work tomorrow.”
After commercial break, the two sat down and addressed the moment in a more serious manner.
Brunson thanked Kimmel for the apology, adding: “I was honestly in such a moment of having a good time, like I won my first Emmy! I was up there happy, and I was wrapped up in the moment.”
Kimmel added that he was “so happy” to see Brunson take home the trophy, since he’s been “a fan of the show since before it came out.”
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At the Emmys heldMonday night in Los Angeles,Kimmel played dead on stage when Brunson accepted her trophy for outstanding writing in a comedy series. Despite Brunsonprompting him to stand up, Kimmel didn’t move during her speech.
The comedy bit was carried over from when Kimmel presented the category withWill Arnett; the actor dragged the comedian on and off the stage as they both pretended Kimmel had grown too drunk to coherently present after his show lost toLast Week Tonight withJohn Oliver.
Though it may have elicited laughs at first,viewers at home complained online about Kimmel’s presence for Brunson’s big moment, many slamming him for distracting from her win.
Brunson later told reporters in the Emmys press room that Kimmel being therewasn’t initially upsetting.
“I don’t know. I don’t really… I know Jimmy Kimmel and I don’t know. I felt like the bit didn’t bother me that much,” she said about the bit after her win. “I don’t know what the internet thinks, but I don’t know.”
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She noted that Kimmel has been a major advocate forAbbott Elementary’s success since he first saw that ABC had picked up the series.
“I know him. Honestly, it was kind of… Jimmy gave me my first big late night spot and was one of the first people to see Abbott, and one of the first people… 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,” Brunson said Monday.
“So, I think, in that moment, I was just really happy that it was Jimmy up there. I kind of consider him one of the comedy godfathers,” she continued. “I’m a huge fan of Will Arnett, so I was wrapped up in the moment.”
Still, Brunson admitted she might feel differently in the morning.
“I don’t know. Tomorrow, maybe I’ll be mad at him,” Brunson said. “I’m going to be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
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“Ooh, the disrespect!” Ralph said, according to reporters at a Television Critics Association summer press tour panel on Wednesday. “I told him, too, to his face, and he understood.”
Kimmel called Brunson “unbelievably talented” as he spoke toEntertainment Tonightat a Walt Disney company afterparty Monday night.
“I saw her pilot before it came out on ABC, and I wrote to her, and I was like, ‘I don’t know how we got this, but congratulations.You made a pilot that any network would be ecstatic to get,’ " Kimmel said to the outlet, adding that she’s “a lovely person.”
Kimmel did appear to acknowledge Brunson at one point during the bit, giving her a thumbs up from the floor. But he also suggested toETthat he didn’t know his location in proximity to Brunson. “I had my eyes closed, I had no idea where I was,” Kimmel said. “It was one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me.”
source: people.com
