Quinta Brunson Doesn’t Have a Secret Sauce, She Did the Hard Work — And It Paid Off With ‘Abbott Elementary’

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFor a network comedy to earn as much attention in the year of our TV gods 2022 is a miracle.

And it takes a once-in-a-generation talent to pull it off. Which is why we can’t stop raving about Quinta Brunson. As Variety noted last month, Brunson made Emmy history by scoring three Emmy nominations for “Abbott”: Outstanding comedy series, lead comedy actress and comedy writing (for the show’s pilot) — making her the first Black woman to earn three major comedy nods in the same year. “I would love to say that I had the full handle on Quinta’s secret sauce,” says Warner Bros.

TV Group chairman Channing Dungey. “What I will say is that she has a sort of innate ability to create characters that are fully three dimensional, that are accessible and relatable, and at the same time, really pinpoint what’s funny.”It’s been exciting to watch the rise of Brunson, from producing videos for Instagram and BuzzFeed to moving on to “iZombie,” “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Miracle Workers” and then hitting it big with “Abbott Elementary.” “Quinta is a doer,” Dungey adds. “She was working in every form and every medium that she could.

She was working as a writer, she was doing sketch comedy. She was doing acting roles in other people’s projects. This is very much is the product of all of her hard work and effort.