Ash Perez
Appearances
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
Okay, my origin story with Quinta is that we sat next to each other at BuzzFeed and notoriously, probably unlike these people where Quinta's original thought was Kate is tight. Quinta did not like me. My fun fact of my whole life is that the character of Janine is based off me or loosely based off of me on Abbott.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
Yeah, it's, it's, she said it in interview. She said it in variety. So I have it.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
Okay. I have two questions. One is a serious one. And then one is going to make her groan and she's going to know I asked it, which I'm so excited for. So the first one is just as an avid student of comedy, what are the top three sitcoms that influence your sense of comedy?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
Like so much of my memories of Quinta, we used to like, she used to come over to my house and we used to watch old I Love Lucy episodes and just like talk about like what structured the comedy or we would watch pilots to stuff and like, just like an actual student of comedy in a way that I think is so valuable and that people don't,
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
don't um necessarily know especially because she got her start on the internet she has a deep deep lexicon so i would love to hear her answer to that and then uh do you think you would have been as famous if you had ordered a medium instead of a large i can't guarantee it's going to make the cut but i i am curious to know the answer
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
Well, her first, one of her first viral videos ever for He Got Money was her, she orders a popcorn.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Quinta Brunson
And so it become very much like, and that was, I would say one of her very first like memes along with He Got Money. So.