IMO Live: Give Your Parents Grace with Quinta Brunson
6/24/20261 hr 35 min
Emmy-award winning actress, producer and writer Quinta Brunson joins Michelle and Craig for a conversation during the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. Quinta talks about her early days in comedy, how she broached the topic of her career with her parents, and reveals the one surprising situation that gives her imposter syndrome.
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First 90 secondsQuinta Brunson· Guest0:00
I worked on Key & Peele.
Michelle Obama· Host0:01
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 30:01
Oh, yeah.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:01
As a PA.
Michelle Obama· Host0:02
I missed that in your book.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:04
I don't know if I was in there.
Michelle Obama· Host0:05
Did you work?
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:05
I, I don't, I don't know. I w- I did. It was, like, it was their first episode, actually.
Michelle Obama· Host0:09
Wow.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:09
And, and I was a PA, and through that met a producer- PA is a, a program- Production assistant ...
Michelle Obama· Host0:13
production assistant.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:14
And [laughs] She, she does a podcast now.
Speaker 30:17
She's in the business, so.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:18
Yeah.
Michelle Obama· Host0:19
She's in the- [laughs] I'm just ... You know all this lingo- Um- ... PA. It's like- I was a PA ... you know.
Quinta Brunson· Guest0:23
Production assistant. [laughs] And, um, then I, uh, that producer- Shut up.
Michelle Obama· Host0:28
[laughs] [upbeat music] This episode of IMO is brought to you by United Airlines and Chase Home Lending. Oh, wow. It's everybody we know.
Speaker 30:44
Goodness, can we- [laughs] Can we, can we go back out and come in again?
Michelle Obama· Host0:47
I know. It's like, I'm gonna be like, "Hey. What? Oh, what? You're here. Sandy, what's going on?" [laughs] How, well, you guys, welcome to, uh, IMO, but this is the very first event that we're holding here in this amazing auditorium. Isn't it beautiful? [cheering] [applause] Wow.
Speaker 31:08
And I, I just would like to thank all of our friends and family who are here, and a special thanks to United Airlines who's sponsoring this episode for us.
Michelle Obama· Host1:20
Woop, woop, woop.
Speaker 31:22
[cheering] [applause] And- Shout out to our sponsors ... yeah, but, you know, you know I'm a, I'm actually a million-miler flyer.