Quinta Brunson needed to step over Jimmy Kimmel to simply accept her Emmy

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Quinta Brunson introduced the viewers to its ft when she received her first Emmy – however at her ft 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 meant joke that ended up miffing some viewers.

Kimmel offered 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 theater’s bar after shedding 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, almost two minutes in complete.

Footage shared by a ceremony attendee confirmed that Arnett pulled Kimmel’s physique offstage on the finish of the section.

Brunson, unfazed, used her restricted time to thank the “Abbott Elementary” workforce, her household and her husband, however not with no dig at Kimmel: “Jimmy, get up. I received!”

Kimmel remained out of the digicam’s body throughout 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 possibly I’ll be mad at him. I’m going to be on his present on Wednesday, so I would punch him within the face,” she joked.

It could 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.

Though Brunson’s win was extensively celebrated – “Abbott Elementary” is a large hit, ABC’s most successful comedy in years – many viewers chided Kimmel for not ceding the highlight, notably to a Black lady accepting her first Emmy. (Kimmel, in the meantime, has been nominated for 18 Emmys and received two since 2012.)

Sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen, who research race within the leisure trade, congratulated Brunson for “Abbott Elementary,” whose solid is primarily Black and takes place in an underfunded Philadelphia public faculty. But she didn’t assume a lot of Kimmel’s joke: “And presenter Jimmy Kimmel, rise up, it’s unfunny and impolite,” Yuen tweeted.

Ernest Owens, editor-at-large at Philadelphia Magazine, stated he was irked by Kimmel, whom he said was “making an attempt 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.