“It’s wild to be in front of all your comedy heroes,” the ‘Abbott Elementary’ creator and star told the ComedyPRO conference in Montreal.
“I was doing a lot of work just to get here, to get to what I considered real comedy. I wanted to get to TV, I wanted to get to film. I was doing stand-up and I was putting in the work and I love comedy. So it was an honor to be recognized back then,” Brunson said.
“So thank you for giving me this award. I hope I can come back here again in 10 years and get the breakout award,” she said when ending her acceptance speech. This was a nod to comic and actor Ronny Chieng, who parlayed a chance introduction to Trevor Noah when both were performing at the Just For Laughs festival in 2015 to go on to become a senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s“I had my own [JFL] gala last year. This year I’m breaking out.
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