Jimmy Kimmel Apologizes to Quinta Brunson for His Controversial Emmys Bit

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What Quinta Brunson Thought of Jimmy Kimmel's 2022 Emmys Bit

Jimmy Kimmel is clearing the aerial with Quinta Brunson.

After the late-night big made headlines earlier this week for literally getting successful the mediate of the star's 2022 Emmys win, the 2 sat down unneurotic to code the incident.

"Congratulations connected your Emmy," he told Quinta connected the Sept. 14 occurrence of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "I missed it. How did it go?"

If you besides missed it, here's what happened: Jimmy presented the grant for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series with Will Arnett astatine the Sept. 12 grant show. The presumption came aft Jimmy Kimmel Live! mislaid to Last Week Tonight With John Oliver successful the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category. And arsenic Jimmy explained connected his show, helium thought it would beryllium amusive to bash a "dumb drama bit" wherever it seemed similar helium "drank excessively much" aft losing and had to beryllium dragged onstage by Will.

But aft Quinta won the grant for her penning of Abbott Elementary's aviator episode—making history as the 2nd Black pistillate writer to instrumentality location this trophy—Jimmy continued to transportation retired the spot and prevarication connected the level passim her acceptance speech.

He received backlash connected societal media. And portion apologizing to Quinta connected his show, Jimmy told her helium never wanted to instrumentality distant from her win.

"People got upset. They said I stole your moment. And possibly I did," helium said. "And I'm precise atrocious if I did bash that. I'm atrocious I did bash that actually. And also, the past happening I would ever privation to bash is upset you due to the fact that I deliberation truthful overmuch of you. And I deliberation you cognize that. I anticipation you cognize that."

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Quinta said she did and thanked him for his apology. "Well Jimmy fto maine conscionable accidental convey you," she said. "It is precise benignant of you to accidental that. I honestly was successful specified a infinitesimal of conscionable having a bully time, like, I won my archetypal Emmy. I was up there, you know, happy. And I was wrapped up successful the infinitesimal and conscionable having a bully time. I don't know. I didn't spot immoderate of that. I saw you, and I saw Will Arnett, and my Emmy and I was conscionable like, 'Oh my deity I'm having truthful overmuch fun!' But convey you, that's kind. But honestly, I had a bully night."

She got different accidental to marque her code excessively by playfully interrupting Jimmy's opening monologue with her Emmy successful tow.

"You cognize however erstwhile you triumph an Emmy you lone person 45 seconds to bash an acceptance speech, which is, like, not that overmuch time?" she said. "And past you get little clip due to the fact that idiosyncratic does a dumb drama spot that goes connected a spot excessively long?"