Brunson first garnered attention for the comedy videos she posted online when they became viral sensations.
This forged a path to television, with Brunson appearing in numerous shows over the past few years.
“Not me.”
According to Brunson, some friends “pushed me to put that video online …
I had never even used Instagram as a platform.
I really wasn’t into the internet at all.”
“I was doing my comedy onstage,” she told the Times.
It showed me like, [okay], here’s an entire stage over here."
“My mom Googled me recently,” Brunson said during an appearance on"Jimmy Kimmel Live!
““She said, ‘Quinta, I saw a picture of you on the Google.
And it was your face with some writing on it.'”
(The “writing” her mother was referring to was “People be gay.")
“‘What does that mean, Quinta?'”
However, she wasn’t sure how to take it to the next level.
When “Broke” was eventually sold toYouTube Red, Brunson decided toleave BuzzFeedfor greener pastures.
Writing a book, she said, “requires you to undo all the one-liners.”
“Those books hugged me at times when I needed the hug,” she said.
Brunson plays Jeanine Teagues, an earnest second-grade teacher.
“Ms. Abbott has always stuck with me throughout my life,” Brunson told theLos Angeles Times.
“In a way, I didn’t know why she was my favorite …
I think that’s what a good teacher does.
She also nabbed a role in the Seth Rogen-starring movie “An American Pickle.”
Interviewed by theAV Club, she singled out her least favorite: working at American Eagle.
“Folding jeans,” she recalled.
“I don’t like that kind of stuff.”
I think teachers deserve that.”
“I just felt like he was the homie!”
However, she did not spend what she earned wisely.
Interviewed byVogue, she joked that among her most frivolous purchases was a pair of burgundy-hued leather pants.
“They were really cute, but realistically, when was I ever going to wear those?”
“I’m a dancer, I’ve been trained in dance all my life,” she said.
In fact, Brunson’s love of dance was spotlighted in a video she shared onFacebook.
“I love rock climbing because it’s active,” she said.
“It’s fun, but you’re working out your back and stuff, and your arms.”
“I pretty much go if not twice a month then once a month,” she told People.
Being a native Philadelphian, she told theLos Angeles Times, has definitely shaped her approach to comedy.
Los Angeles, she told the Times, “has a little bit more of a relaxing energy.
As a profile on Brunson in thePhiladelphia Inquirerpointed out, she dropped out of college.
As she increasingly focused on comedy, she admitted, “eventually my grades started to suffer.”
After this, she decided to stay in Southern California for good.
If it means we get to see way more of her, we’re all for it.
