‘SNL’ Monologue: Quinta Brunson Takes Swipe At ‘Friends’ & Makes Plea To Pay Teachers “The Money They Deserve”

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Quinta Brunson took the Saturday Night Live stage as host to deliver a monologue where she took a swipe at Friends and made a plea in the name of teachers.

The Abbott Elementary star and creator said she had been dreaming about hosting the NBC sketch show since she was a kid. “I wanted to be on SNL back in the day but the audition process seemed long,” she said. “So instead, I just created my own TV show, made sure it became really popular, won a bunch of Emmys and then got asked to host –– so much easier, so much easier.” Brunson then compared her ABC sitcom with Friends listing the differences between the shows. “It’s a network sitcom like, say, Friends,” she said about Abbott Elementary. “Except, instead of being about a group of friends, it’s about a group of teachers.

Instead of New York, it’s in Philadelphia and instead of not having Black people, it does.” Brunson told the audience that she was inspired to create Abbott Elementary because her mother was a teacher.

However, she said that the “downside now is every time there’s an issue with the public school system, people expect me to solve it and that’s not fair.” The Emmy winner also said that people expect her to be like her character on the comedy show but would like to not be compared.