Quinta Brunson Wins Her First Emmy for 'Abbott Elementary'

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Quinta Brunson has won her first Emmy Award. The creator, writer, and star of ABC's has made history as the second Black woman to win television's highest award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.

Brunson took the stage and humbly thanked the networks that trusted in her vision to tell this story. “I want to say thank you to ABC, Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros.," she said. «It takes that many people to make a television show.

I need to say thank you to Justin and Patrick, my co-showrunners, for believing in a show from four years ago and thinking that it would make a good TV show.» She also thanked Larry Wilmore, her parents, husband, siblings and the rest of the cast and crew.

The award was presented by Will Arnett and Jimmy Kimmel, who were doing a comedic bit before the announcement. Arnett dragged a jokingly lifeless Kimmel onto the stage. “Thirteenth time in a row that he’s lost and he just got into the skinny margaritas back there,” Arnett said.