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
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.