'SNL': Quinta Brunson Jokes About 'Friends' Lack of Diversity and Pushes for Teachers to Get Paid More
etonline.comQuinta Brunson had a real-life «pinch me» moment on April 1. The creator and star made her 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 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 . «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.
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