.quintabrunson got famous through her memes. Now she's created the most charming show of the winter, AbbottElementary. arayyay reports
Photo: Emily Shur Most people know Quinta Brunson as “the Girl Who’s Never Been on a Nice Date” or the BuzzFeed Meme Girl.
As “the girl who could Milly Rock on any block” in 2016. Photo: Quinta Brunson/Facebook The world of Abbott Elementary is rooted in Brunson’s own life. She grew up in the West Philadelphia school system, where her mother was a kindergarten teacher. Her path to comedy began in earnest in 2008, when she was attending Temple University and waffling over which major to choose.
As Janine Teagues on Abbott Elementary in 2022. Photo: Gilles Mingasson/ABC By 2018, Brunson had left BuzzFeed, and it looked as if her years of working in the digital-content mines had paid off. She co-created a pilot with comedian Jermaine Fowler that CBS put into development. Titled Quinta & Jermaine, the show was about two friends dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
Unlike characters on Insecure and other shows about Black female friends, Janine is allowed to be a little frumpy and badly dressed. She dates a wannabe rapper while her colleague Gregory secretly pines for her. “It was important to have Black love depicted on the screen because, you know, I’m from Philly,” Brunson says. “It’s accurate to the world of a school like Abbott. It’d be weird to see Janine randomly dating some white guy.
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