Quinta Brunson does not want to be a mogul. Amy hangs with the 'Abbott Elementary' creator and star, and talks about being the face of a network TV show, knowing the difference between Jon Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi, and the dangers of being short. Host: Amy Poehler Guests: Quinta Brunson, Zack Evans, Andrew Gauthier, Ash Perez, and Kate Peterman Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, supervising producer Joel Lovell For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Chris Wholers, Nick Kosut, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat Spillane Original Music: Amy Miles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Quinta Brunson and why is she considered a mogul?
Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. I'm so excited about our guest today. It is the incredible Quinta Brunson, who is not only funny and smart and gracious and a seemingly great boss, but is a mogul, is kind of... just an incredible driving force in an industry and in many ways saving it from extinction. No pressure.
But anyway, I'm so excited to have Quinta here to talk about all of those things and to hang. And we always like to do something at the beginning of our shows where we gather people together that know Quinta, that have worked with her, that know stuff about her that we would never know, and ask them how they feel about her and what they think I should ask her.
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Zach Evans, also writer, creative director in LA, founder of Create Repeat, an online community for creatives, and also a BuzzFeed alum with Quinta. Hi, Zach. We have Ash Perez. Hi, Ash. Ash, also a BuzzFeed, I guess like you could say a BuzzFeed alum, right?
BuzzFeeder.
BuzzFeeder, okay, welcome. And then we have the big boss, Andrew Gauthier, French name, congratulations. Andrew, you were the head of BuzzFeed video when Quinta and Zach and a lot of you and Kate and Ashley were all making content together. This is not a deposition. Nothing you say will be used. But welcome to Good Hang. How's everyone doing?
I feel a bit like I'm in a performance review with Andrew. But besides that, great.
Andrew, do you like to do performance reviews? Speaking of performance reviews?
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Chapter 2: How did Quinta Brunson's colleagues describe her and what should we ask her?
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.
Do you have confirmation of that?
Yeah, it's, it's, she said it in interview. She said it in variety. So I have it.
She said it in the writer's room.
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?
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,
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
Well, her first, one of her first viral videos ever for He Got Money was her, she orders a popcorn.
Oh, the popcorn and the Skittles. A large. Right.
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