‘SNL’: Quinta Brunson Jokes About ‘Friends’ Lack Of Diversity And Pushes For Teachers To Get Paid More
etcanada.comQuinta Brunson had a real-life “pinch me” moment on April 1. The “Abbott Elementary” creator and star made her “Saturday Night Live” debut as the night’s guest, and according to her monologue, it was a long time coming.
Brunson shared that she had always dreamed of being on “SNL” when she was a kid, but the audition process “seemed long,” so she took the simple route when she “created my own TV show, made sure it became really popular, won a bunch of Emmys and then got asked to host and it was so much easier!” The 33-year-old went on about the network sitcom’s success, at one point comparing it to “Friends”. “Except instead of being about a group of friends, it’s about a group of teachers.
And instead of New York, it’s in Philadelphia. And instead of not having Black people — it does,” she joked. Brunson then shared that viewers seemed to expect her to fix problems within the public school system in real life, much like her character, Janine Teagues.
But, as she explained, she’s the “opposite” of her character and still learning how to deal with her fame. The actress joked that it comes with the price of lying to her mother — especially about some of the famous faces she’s been introduced to recently.
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