Who is Quinta Brunson?

From meme queen to writing and starring in ABC’s hit comedy series “Abbott Elementary,” this is the story of Quinta Brunson.

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00:00Yeah, sometimes memes just say what I can't.

00:16Sometimes I'm like, you could just quit, but then something else comes out of nowhere and

00:19then I keep going.

00:44You're short.

00:45You shop at the baby gap.

00:49People treat being short like there's something wrong with you, like you're very other.

00:54It's what I would imagine racism feels like, I don't know.

00:57I was actually doing stuff, stage, improv, stuff like that.

01:19And then I put a video online when Instagram first got video and it happened to go super

01:26viral.

01:27Hey, thanks for taking me to do laundry because you know I was not doing it by myself.

01:38Oh, I forgot to get quarters.

01:41Hey, don't worry.

01:42You know I got quarters.

01:45I got money.

01:59Memes are, I compare them to like hieroglyphics, kind of.

02:03There are these pictures that we share that mean different things to different people.

02:15Oh, black girl magic for real.

02:41Well, good morning.

02:44God is good all the time.

02:57Like she means well, uh, in, in, in theaters, June 15th.

03:01And by in theaters, I mean on your bookshelf.

03:04There's a bunch of them too, so you can, you can buy them.

03:23I know this school is rough, but we make do.

03:31But I just think people who maybe don't have a teacher so close in their life don't know

03:35how big the job is.

03:37And it's one of the reasons why I firmly believe they should be paid more.

03:50I think everyone's creative journey is different.

03:52For me, the internet, testing with audiences, seeing what hits, it really helped me.

04:00Yeah.

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04:03Yeah.