Quinta Brunson introduced the viewers to its toes when she received her first Emmy – however at her toes in the course of the second was Jimmy Kimmel.
The late-night host pretended to be unconscious and stayed on the ground whereas Brunson accepted her award as a part of an meant 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 “obtained into the thin margaritas” on the theatre’s bar after shedding the Selection Discuss Collection award to John Oliver.
After the Abbott Elementary creator and star was introduced because the winner, Kimmel stayed on the bottom on the base of the microphone stand. He remained there all through Brunson’s acceptance speech and into the industrial break, practically two minutes in whole.
Watch the video of Jimmy Kimmel being dragged off stage above.
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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 and not using a dig at Kimmel: “Jimmy, get up. I received!”
Kimmel remained out of the digicam’s body at some point of Brunson’s speech, which lasted roughly one minute.
Later backstage, Brunson addressed the second, saying the bit “did not hassle me that a lot,” including that Kimmel was an early supporter of her and Abbott Elementary.
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“Tomorrow perhaps I will be mad at him. I’ll be on his present on Wednesday, so I’d punch him within the face,” she joked.
It might be the ultimate time Brunson would seem onstage Monday. Ted Lasso received 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 an enormous hit, ABC’s most profitable comedy in years – many viewers chided Kimmel for not ceding the highlight, significantly to a Black lady accepting her first Emmy.
(Kimmel, in the meantime, has been nominated for 18 Emmys and received two since 2012.)
Loads of folks took to Twitter to voice their irritation at Kimmel’s act.
”If #QuintaBrunson stepping over #JimmyKimmel who actually laid in her highlight on the day she received an Emmy is not a metaphor for what it means to be a WOC [Woman of Colour] in a white man’s world I do not know what’s,” one particular person tweeted.
One other particular person added: “Jimmy Kimmel owes Quinta an apology however the tousled half is each picture of her accepting her award has his ass in it. White males actually are unbearable.”
Sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen, who research race within the leisure business, congratulated Brunson for Abbott Elementary, whose forged is primarily Black and takes place in an underfunded Philadelphia public faculty.
However she did not suppose a lot of Kimmel’s joke: “And presenter Jimmy Kimmel, rise up, it is unfunny and impolite,” Yuen tweeted.
Ernest Owens, editor-at-large at Philadelphia Journal, mentioned he was irked by Kimmel, whom he mentioned was “attempting to take consideration away” from Brunson’s win.
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