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Quinta Brunson, Bill Hader and More: Meet the Comedy Performers With Multiple 2022 Emmy Nominations

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A version of this story about comedy performers with multiple nominations first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Comedy issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.In this year’s Emmy comedy categories, a handful of performers weren’t satisfied with just one Emmy nomination – instead, they two, three, four or even five.

Here’s a guide to the year’s double-, triple-, quadruple- and quintuple-dippers.QUINTA BRUNSON-Outstanding Comedy Series, “Abbott Elementary”-Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, “Abbott Elementary”-Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, “Abbott Elementary”Brunson’s three nominations for “Abbott Elementary,” an ABC show she created after years spent doing digital comedy for YouTube, BuzzFeed and Instagram, made her the first Black woman ever nominated for producing, writing and acting in a comedy series.

The mockumentary set among the teachers at a beleaguered Philadelphia grade school was based on Brunson’s mother, a teacher, and inspired by a childhood that found her falling in love with comedies like “The Brady Bunch,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Martin” and “All That.” As for her performance as impossibly sunny Janine, Brunson told TheWrap’s Libby Hill, “I’m like 3% Janine.

If that. She’s very peppy, very optimistic and very necessary… Janine was inspired by a friend of mine who’s so optimistic, to the point where, when I first met her, I couldn’t stand her.

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