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Quinta Brunson introduced the viewers to its toes when she gained her first Emmy – however at her toes throughout the second was Jimmy Kimmel, who pretended to be unconscious and stayed on the ground whereas she accepted her award as a part of an supposed joke that ended up miffing some viewers.
Kimmel introduced the award for excellent writing for a comedy collection with Will Arnett, who dragged Kimmel on stage and joked that Kimmel “received into the thin margaritas” on the theater’s bar after dropping in an earlier class.
After the “Abbott Elementary” creator and star was introduced as winner for writing the pilot of the favored sitcom, Kimmel stayed on the bottom on the base of the microphone stand. He remained there all through Brunson’s acceptance speech and into the business break, practically two minutes in whole.
Footage shared by a ceremony attendee confirmed that Arnett pulled Kimmel’s physique offstage on the finish of the phase.
Brunson, unfazed, used her restricted time to thank the “Abbott Elementary” workforce, her household and her husband, however not with out a dig at Kimmel: “Jimmy, get up. I gained!”
Kimmel remained out of the digicam’s body at some stage in Brunson’s speech, which lasted roughly one minute.
Later backstage, Brunson addressed the second, saying the bit “didn’t trouble me that a lot,” including that Kimmel was an early supporter of her and “Abbott Elementary.”
“Tomorrow perhaps I’ll be mad at him. I’m going to be on his present on Wednesday, so I’d punch him within the face,” she joked.
It could be the ultimate time Brunson would seem onstage Monday. “Ted Lasso” gained over “Abbott Elementary” within the excellent comedy class, its second win in as a few years.
Although Brunson’s win was extensively celebrated – “Abbott Elementary” is a large hit, ABC’s most profitable comedy in years – many viewers chided Kimmel for not ceding the highlight, notably to a Black girl accepting her first Emmy. (Kimmel, in the meantime, has been nominated for 18 Emmys and gained two since 2012.)
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Sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen, who research race within the leisure business, congratulated Brunson for “Abbott Elementary,” whose solid is primarily Black and takes place in an underfunded Philadelphia public college. However she didn’t assume a lot of Kimmel’s joke: “And presenter Jimmy Kimmel, stand up, it’s unfunny and impolite,” Yuen tweeted.
Ernest Owens, editor-at-large at Philadelphia Journal, mentioned he was irked by Kimmel, whom he said was “attempting to take consideration away” from Brunson’s win.
Brunson, in the meantime, will return with the anticipated second season of “Abbott Elementary” on September 21.