Quinta Brunson Was A High School “DVD Hustler” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

there you are growing up in this family. where nobody's in show business all this. stuff is funneling into you when do you. start to think to yourself wait a minute. maybe I could do this I needed a little. bit of. freedom and I just was talking about. this with a friend recently it felt like. coming out saying I wanted to go into. comedy right it was I felt like I was. hiding this really really dirty secret. and I didn't want to acknowledge it like. I didn't even when I was 10 and watching.

Conan I was like it was more than just. being entertained it was like this is. fulfilling me in a way that is deeper. than what my sisters understand and that. is really unique or when you're watching. the same movies as other kids but you're. honed in on the specific comedy part. like everybody else was watching some of. the cartoons and stuff like I don't I. remember Hercules I didn't get that. movie but there was one funny part to me. that I was like that like the funny.

parts though right guys like um no. Hercules really cool listen those Ladi. sing I like you know. so and then in college because I went to. Art School which let me let my freak. flag fly a little bit that's when I. really got into it and there was also. just a comedy Renaissance while I was in. high school it was when all the eple. films were coming out um and um you know. like an anchor man had come out at that. time and.

that was a big deal to me and I needed. to introduce it to the rest of the. school so I became like the DVD Hustler. that was like here's what you guys need. to watch like can I please have movie. Friday first viewing is. free I kind of also missed that time of. DVDs because it was like a special. currency like giving my DVDs to my. friends and being specific about you. need to watch anchor man you need to. watch Napoleon Dynamite I got Juno for. you I got this for you and so then I. understood that it was a taste thing and. a and an appreciation.

like. saying I think you're going to like this. P Noir it's from pedmont region I I got. you taken care of literally and it was. like a curation which led to a deeper. appreciation. because then I started looking up where. did all where are all these people. coming from if I'm like them how did. they all get together and get to be. funny together because that's what I was. lacking I made my classmates laugh but I. was like I'm not a clown so I don't want.

to make you guys laugh in that way huh. like where where do I go to like yeah. hone in on what I feel which is a very. deep artistic connection to this genre. and so it kind of led me to finding out. about Second City and then once I found. out about Second City that's when it was. really a Rap I had a boyfriend in. Chicago at the time and I was like I'm. going to come and stay with you I'm. going to sneak and go to this place. called The Second City and he was like. he's like drugs trip Club I was like.

it's a. comedy don't tell tell anyone and he's. like okay um can we like have sex when. you get here I was like sure but I need. to seriously he was like that was his. main goal was like what priorities yeah. right but I didn't tell my parents I I. snuck on a plane oh my God they still. don't know how many times I actually. snuck to Chicago they just knew I did it. once so you were not cuz this is the. interesting thing uh mom cuz we've.

established a elementary school teacher. your dad religious very religious your. dad yeah what does your dad do oh he. managed parking lots okay so. yeah this is you're keeping this a. secret yeah at what point do you have to. say to them I got some news for you I. like never did they still don't. know they're not allowed to have a. television they can't watch any award. shows cuz you keep winning Awards was.

the first time my mom got it I sent her. the pilot to watch and she was like. oh oh so you're GNA do this huh and I. was like yeah I am I'm gonna do this I'm. not giving up I'm not I'm not coming. back to Philly CU i' done a couple of. things but she doesn't watch TV like. that so she didn't see like I did black. lady sketch on HBO I had done a couple. of TV show like like new girl and stuff. like that but she wasn't tapped in and. to her it was still okay she's out there.

having fun she's going to come back here. and you know become a teacher was her. dream and I then she saw Abbot and was. like oh I get it yeah um hands off do. your thing so that was kind of so was 27. took me a long time to to kind of. actually tell them that I was GNA I. never even told them I was just like. look. this a major Network sign look at thing. made not that hard you just write and.

create and star in a show and it wins it. wins every award it can possibly win. that's what happens to everybody the. importance of like Network TV to me. because I was doing everything else in. the shadows like I had I had written for. an adult swim show voiced on an adult. like that didn't mean anything to my mom. and dad what about all the stuff you did. uh social media all that didn't didn't. click them yeah.